EssaysD. Appleton & Company, 1910 |
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abstract Abstract-Concrete action admit aggregate alleged argument assertion assumed astronomy axioms become belief bodies cause classification common complex compound Comte Comte's conception conclusion concrete mathematics Concrete Sciences connexion consciousness considered constituting criticism definite direct division doctrine effect emotion equal evolution excitement existence experiences expression fact feeling force further geometry groups habitually Hegel Hence Herbert Spencer Hipparchus hypothesis ideas illustrated implies inconceivable inference intuition kind knowledge law of effect laws of motion less manifest mass mathematics matter Max Müller means mental mind mode molecular molecules muscular nature nervous object observation organic origin perception phenomena philosophy physical position present prevision Principles of Psychology priori produced Prof proof proposition quantity question rational mechanics reasoning relations respecting reviewer sensations sentence similarly Sir William Hamilton Social Statics Solar System Space Spencer supposed syllogism things thought tion true truth words
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346. oldal - As when a prowling wolf, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey, Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve In hurdled cotes amid the field secure, Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold : Or as a thief bent to unhoard the cash Of some rich burgher, whose substantial doors...
335. oldal - A reader or listener has at each moment but a limited amount of mental power available. To recognize and interpret the symbols presented to him, requires part of this power ; to arrange and combine the images suggested requires a further part ; and only that part which remains can be used for realizing the thought conveyed.
349. oldal - At last, with no small difficulty, and after much fatigue, we came, through deep roads and bad weather, to our journey's end.
353. oldal - Methought among the lawns together We wandered, underneath the young gray dawn, And multitudes of dense white fleecy clouds Were wandering in thick flocks along the mountains Shepherded by the slow unwilling...
342. oldal - The many men so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
348. oldal - We came to our journey's end, at last, with no small difficulty, after much fatigue, through deep roads and bad weather.
351. oldal - To him each lady's look was lent, On him each courtier's eye was bent, Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King! As wreath of snow, on mountain breast, Slides from the rock that gave it rest, Poor Ellen glided from her stay, And at the Monarch's feet she lay; No word her choking voice commands : She showed the ring, she clasped her hands.
354. oldal - Here we drift, like white sail across the wild ocean, now bright on the wave, now darkling in the trough of the sea; — but from what port did we sail? Who knows? Or to what port are we bound? Who knows? There is no one to tell us but such poor weather-tossed mariners as ourselves, whom we speak as we pass, or who have hoisted some signal, or floated to us some letter in a bottle from far.
342. oldal - In the arrangement of predicate and subject, for example, we are at once shown that as the predicate determines the aspect under which the subject is to be conceived, it should be placed first; and the striking effect produced by so placing it becomes comprehensible. Take the often-quoted contrast between—" Great is Diana of the Ephesians," and—" Diana of the Ephesians is great.
339. oldal - ... ourselves by calling to mind individual members of it, it follows that when an abstract word is used, the hearer or reader has to choose from his stock of images, one or more, by which he may figure to himself the genus mentioned. In doing this, some delay must arise, some force be expended; and if, by employing a specific term, an appropriate image can be at once suggested, an economy is achieved, and a more vivid impression produced.