Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Harper & Brothers, 1855 - 391 oldal |
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... figure ; and yet there is nothing which science has more clearly proved . The eye originally sees nothing but color and surface . A man born blind and suddenly restored to sight would not have the least conception of the distance of ...
... figure ; and yet there is nothing which science has more clearly proved . The eye originally sees nothing but color and surface . A man born blind and suddenly restored to sight would not have the least conception of the distance of ...
71. oldal
... figure of the eye , and the incli- nation of the axes , are set for the distance of two or three yards ( the real space between the eye and the picture ) , so that the mind , wanting one of its signs of dis- tance , is far from being ...
... figure of the eye , and the incli- nation of the axes , are set for the distance of two or three yards ( the real space between the eye and the picture ) , so that the mind , wanting one of its signs of dis- tance , is far from being ...
72. oldal
... figure a man or any other known object makes to my eye at the distance of ten feet ; I perceive the gradual diminution of this visible figure at the dis- tance of twenty , forty , one hundred feet , till it vanish altogether : hence a ...
... figure a man or any other known object makes to my eye at the distance of ten feet ; I perceive the gradual diminution of this visible figure at the dis- tance of twenty , forty , one hundred feet , till it vanish altogether : hence a ...
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... figure of a hat . He then asked for a penknife , to take out a blot of ink which he had made between two letters ; and he erased it without injuring either . Lastly , he made some calcu- lations with great accuracy . Now , in this case ...
... figure of a hat . He then asked for a penknife , to take out a blot of ink which he had made between two letters ; and he erased it without injuring either . Lastly , he made some calcu- lations with great accuracy . Now , in this case ...
82. oldal
... figure and color . To epitomize then the tedious account I have given of this class of ideas , we must remember the threefold divi- sion of ideas with which I began - ideas of the outward senses , ideas we conceive in our mind , and ...
... figure and color . To epitomize then the tedious account I have given of this class of ideas , we must remember the threefold divi- sion of ideas with which I began - ideas of the outward senses , ideas we conceive in our mind , and ...
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188. oldal - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
317. oldal - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
164. oldal - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
209. oldal - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, Shall mortal man be more just than God?
315. oldal - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
194. oldal - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
113. oldal - ... retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
21. oldal - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
219. oldal - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, 'Logan is the friend of white men.
117. oldal - Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors: a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike.