The Elements of Intellectual PhilosophySheldon, 1865 - 426 oldal |
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43. oldal
... direct proof , and is liable to many objections . It is dif- ficult to conceive how a single grain of musk can , for a long time , fill the area of a large room with ever so minute par- ticles , without visible diminution of either ...
... direct proof , and is liable to many objections . It is dif- ficult to conceive how a single grain of musk can , for a long time , fill the area of a large room with ever so minute par- ticles , without visible diminution of either ...
53. oldal
... direct my attention to the window , and create in me the impression that some one was outside of it . In order to accomplish this result , it is necessary that the performer be endowed with an ear capable of de- tecting every possible ...
... direct my attention to the window , and create in me the impression that some one was outside of it . In order to accomplish this result , it is necessary that the performer be endowed with an ear capable of de- tecting every possible ...
62. oldal
... direct knowledge of an external world . This gives us that knowledge directly and immediately . The others , when the existence of an external world is sug- gested , give us no knowledge of its qualities . 62 INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY .
... direct knowledge of an external world . This gives us that knowledge directly and immediately . The others , when the existence of an external world is sug- gested , give us no knowledge of its qualities . 62 INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY .
117. oldal
... direct my attention to the external object , or to the internal mental act , or to the emotion which the object occasions . Thus , in the instance just mentioned , I may direct my whole power of thought to the observation of the ...
... direct my attention to the external object , or to the internal mental act , or to the emotion which the object occasions . Thus , in the instance just mentioned , I may direct my whole power of thought to the observation of the ...
122. oldal
... direct our attention for a time to the earnest pursuit of some object . By being placed under this necessity for a few years , the power of the will over the faculties , if we are faithful to ourselves , becomes habitual . What we learn ...
... direct our attention for a time to the earnest pursuit of some object . By being placed under this necessity for a few years , the power of the will over the faculties , if we are faithful to ourselves , becomes habitual . What we learn ...
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384. oldal - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
412. oldal - No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced; no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have...
134. oldal - The bell strikes one. We take no note of time, But from its loss. To give it then a tongue, Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they?
227. 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.
6. 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...
412. oldal - ... no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery ; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION ! [Here Mr.
147. oldal - First, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them ; and thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
414. 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.
148. 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...
5. oldal - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...