The Elements of Intellectual PhilosophyPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 426 oldal |
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... color , as ener- gies . We are so made that we are obliged to think of these different attributes as at the farthest remove from each . other . From these remarks we discover the limit which has been - fixed by our Creator to our ...
... color , as ener- gies . We are so made that we are obliged to think of these different attributes as at the farthest remove from each . other . From these remarks we discover the limit which has been - fixed by our Creator to our ...
30. oldal
... color . This act is called perception . These two forms of knowledge are united in the sense of touch , and may be clearly distinguished by a little reflec- tion . The illustration of Dr. Reid is as follows : " If a man runs his head ...
... color . This act is called perception . These two forms of knowledge are united in the sense of touch , and may be clearly distinguished by a little reflec- tion . The illustration of Dr. Reid is as follows : " If a man runs his head ...
36. oldal
... color as existing in absolute dark- ness ; and still more of the image of a smell , a sound , or a taste ? Or how can we conceive of distinct images of all of these various qualities forming the conception of a single object ? 2d . Were ...
... color as existing in absolute dark- ness ; and still more of the image of a smell , a sound , or a taste ? Or how can we conceive of distinct images of all of these various qualities forming the conception of a single object ? 2d . Were ...
37. oldal
... color or form , and also an idea of an external object of which these quali- ties are predicated . Both of these are pure and ultimate cognitions . We are as perfectly convinced of the truth of the one as of the other . I as fully ...
... color or form , and also an idea of an external object of which these quali- ties are predicated . Both of these are pure and ultimate cognitions . We are as perfectly convinced of the truth of the one as of the other . I as fully ...
44. oldal
... color , and I can com- pare it with a rose , and from my conceptions point out the difference between them . I could describe this lily , from my conception of it , so that another person could have the same notion of it as myself ...
... color , and I can com- pare it with a rose , and from my conceptions point out the difference between them . I could describe this lily , from my conception of it , so that another person could have the same notion of it as myself ...
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209. oldal - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge., and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity...
252. oldal - Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
405. oldal - O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
412. oldal - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
370. oldal - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
367. oldal - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And , as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape , and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name.
132. oldal - Let any one examine his own thoughts, and thoroughly search into his understanding, and then let him tell me, whether all the original ideas he has there, are any other than of the objects of his senses, or of the operations of his mind considered as objects of his reflection; and how great a mass of knowledge soever he imagines to be lodged there, he will, upon taking a strict view, see that he has not any idea in his mind but what one of these two have imprinted, though perhaps with infinite variety...
405. oldal - Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.
406. oldal - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
131. oldal - Secondly, The other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...