Elements of the philosophy of the human mindHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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xi. oldal
... proper Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge , in order to derive Advantage from the Acquisitions of Memory - · 297 307 316 321 329 335 340 VIII . Of the Connexion between Memory and Philoso- phical Genius 347 CHAPTER VII . Of ...
... proper Selection among the Objects of our Knowledge , in order to derive Advantage from the Acquisitions of Memory - · 297 307 316 321 329 335 340 VIII . Of the Connexion between Memory and Philoso- phical Genius 347 CHAPTER VII . Of ...
2. oldal
... proper in this preliminary chapter , first , to explain the nature of the truths which I propose to in- vestigate ; and , secondly , to point out some of the more important applications of which they are susceptible . In stating these ...
... proper in this preliminary chapter , first , to explain the nature of the truths which I propose to in- vestigate ; and , secondly , to point out some of the more important applications of which they are susceptible . In stating these ...
4. oldal
... proper object of science ; the difficulty which it professes to remove being mani- festly placed beyond the reach of our faculties . Surely , when we attempt to explain the nature of that prin- ciple which feels and thinks and wills ...
... proper object of science ; the difficulty which it professes to remove being mani- festly placed beyond the reach of our faculties . Surely , when we attempt to explain the nature of that prin- ciple which feels and thinks and wills ...
7. oldal
... proper method of conducting it has been generally understood . There is even some reason for doubting , from the crude speculations on medical and chemical subjects which are daily offered to the public , whether it be yet understood so ...
... proper method of conducting it has been generally understood . There is even some reason for doubting , from the crude speculations on medical and chemical subjects which are daily offered to the public , whether it be yet understood so ...
9. oldal
... proper limits of philosophical curiosity , have too frequently escaped the 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 ...
... proper limits of philosophical curiosity , have too frequently escaped the 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 ...
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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...