Elements of the philosophy of the human mindHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... attention to the operations of our own minds , they appear to be so complicated , and so infi- nitely diversified , that it seems to be impossible to re- duce them to any general laws . In consequence , how- ever , of a more accurate ...
... attention to the operations of our own minds , they appear to be so complicated , and so infi- nitely diversified , that it seems to be impossible to re- duce them to any general laws . In consequence , how- ever , of a more accurate ...
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... attention of speculative men , in all the different departments of science . In none of these , however , has this inattention produced such a variety of errors and absurdities , as in the science of mind ; a subject to which , till of ...
... attention of speculative men , in all the different departments of science . In none of these , however , has this inattention produced such a variety of errors and absurdities , as in the science of mind ; a subject to which , till of ...
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... attention of others . After the remarks which I have now made , the reader will not be surprised to find , that I have studiously avoided the consideration of those questions which have been agitated in the present age , between the ...
... attention of others . After the remarks which I have now made , the reader will not be surprised to find , that I have studiously avoided the consideration of those questions which have been agitated in the present age , between the ...
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... attention , so all the pursuits of life , whether they terminate in spec- ulation or action , are connected with that general science , which has the human mind for its object . The powers of the understanding are instruments which all ...
... attention , so all the pursuits of life , whether they terminate in spec- ulation or action , are connected with that general science , which has the human mind for its object . The powers of the understanding are instruments which all ...
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... attention and judgment . Almost every man of reflection is conscious , when he arrives at maturity , of many defects in his mental pow- ers ; and of many inconvenient habits , which might have been prevented or remedied in his infancy ...
... attention and judgment . Almost every man of reflection is conscious , when he arrives at maturity , of many defects in his mental pow- ers ; and of many inconvenient habits , which might have been prevented or remedied in his infancy ...
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221. oldal - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
377. oldal - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish, in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! " His children — " But here my heart began to bleed ; — I was forced to go on with another part of...
406. oldal - ... ideas are general, when they are set up as the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence ; even those words and ideas which in their signification are general.
58. oldal - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
61. oldal - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
16. oldal - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
416. oldal - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
50. oldal - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
101. oldal - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
58. oldal - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...