The Elements of Intellectual PhilosophyPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 426 oldal "The following pages contain the substance of the Lectures which, for several years, have been delivered to the classes in Intellectual Philosophy, in Brown University. ... I have not entered upon the discussion of many of the topics which have called into exercise the acumen of the ablest metaphysicians. Intended to serve the purposes of a text-book, it was necessary that the volume should be compressed within a compass adapted to the time usually allotted to the study of this science in the colleges of our country. I have, therefore, attempted to present and illustrate the important truths in intellectual philosophy, rather than the inferences which may be drawn from them, or the doctrines which they may presuppose. These may be pursued to any length, at the option of the teacher. If I have not entered upon these discussions, I hope that I have prepared the way for their more ample and truthful development"--Preface. |
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... sound of bells . I walk abroad and am regaled with the odor of flowers . I see before me fruit . I taste it and am refreshed .. I am warmed by the sun and cooled by the breeze . I find that all other men in a normal state are affected ...
... sound of bells . I walk abroad and am regaled with the odor of flowers . I see before me fruit . I taste it and am refreshed .. I am warmed by the sun and cooled by the breeze . I find that all other men in a normal state are affected ...
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... sounds , tactual , and visible qualities . For the special purpose of cognizing each of these qualities I find myself endowed with a partic- ular organization , which is called a sense . These are the senses of smell , taste , hearing ...
... sounds , tactual , and visible qualities . For the special purpose of cognizing each of these qualities I find myself endowed with a partic- ular organization , which is called a sense . These are the senses of smell , taste , hearing ...
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... sound sleep , and was not agreeably surprised to find a cold hand lying heavily on his breast . He was the sole occupant of the room , and he knew not how any one could have entered it . It was so dark that he could perceive nothing ...
... sound sleep , and was not agreeably surprised to find a cold hand lying heavily on his breast . He was the sole occupant of the room , and he knew not how any one could have entered it . It was so dark that he could perceive nothing ...
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... 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 this theory conceivable , it is wholly destitute of proof . It is merely the ...
... 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 this theory conceivable , it is wholly destitute of proof . It is merely the ...
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... sound ; the other a compound knowledge , embracing a simple idea , as of 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 ...
... sound ; the other a compound knowledge , embracing a simple idea , as of 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 ...
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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...