Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806Impr. Spottiswoodes and Shaw, 1849 - 424 oldal |
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... young with the love of knowledge , the love of virtue , and that feel- ing of modest independence which has ever been the ornament of his conduct . I have been his pupil , and have received kindness at his hands . Perhaps I am over ...
... young with the love of knowledge , the love of virtue , and that feel- ing of modest independence which has ever been the ornament of his conduct . I have been his pupil , and have received kindness at his hands . Perhaps I am over ...
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... young man who was couched by Cheselden . He actually made this mistake , and conceived the pic- tures on the opposite wall to be quite close to his eye . If the eye can see nothing but colour and surface , why should the alteration of ...
... young man who was couched by Cheselden . He actually made this mistake , and conceived the pic- tures on the opposite wall to be quite close to his eye . If the eye can see nothing but colour and surface , why should the alteration of ...
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... young people have commonly the power of adapting their eyes to all distances of the object , from six or seven inches to fifteen or sixteen feet , so as to have perfect and distinct vision at any distance within these limits . Now ...
... young people have commonly the power of adapting their eyes to all distances of the object , from six or seven inches to fifteen or sixteen feet , so as to have perfect and distinct vision at any distance within these limits . Now ...
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... young man born blind , and suddenly restored to his sight by undergoing the operation of couching . A young gentleman , who was born with two cata- racts upon each of his eyes , was , in 1728 , couched by Mr. Cheselden , and by that ...
... young man born blind , and suddenly restored to his sight by undergoing the operation of couching . A young gentleman , who was born with two cata- racts upon each of his eyes , was , in 1728 , couched by Mr. Cheselden , and by that ...
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... young gentleman , who , though he knew " those colours asunder , in a good light , yet , when he saw them after he was couched , the faint ideas he had " of them before , were not sufficient for him to know " them by afterwards ; and ...
... young gentleman , who , though he knew " those colours asunder , in a good light , yet , when he saw them after he was couched , the faint ideas he had " of them before , were not sufficient for him to know " them by afterwards ; and ...
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acquire action Adam Smith admiration agreeable animals appears Aristotle asso association attention beautiful benevolence Bishop Berkeley bodily body Carneades cause certainly child Cicero colour common conceive danger degree Descartes desire difficulty diminished discover distance doctrine Dugald Stewart effect emotion Epicurus evil excite existence fact faculties favour fear feeling give grief habit human mind humour ideas imagination imitation incongruity instance instinct knowledge labour language LECTURE Leibnitz live Lochaber Locke Lord Bacon Lucullus Malebranche mankind manner means ment Moral Philosophy natural philosophy nature never notion novelty objects observe opinions original pain particular passion perceive perfect person Plato pleasure present principles produce Pyrrho racter reason relation relation of ideas resemblance respect ridiculous sensation sense sort species sublime suppose surprise talent taste thing thought tiful tion truth understanding virtue whole witty word young
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197. 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...
341. 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.
119. oldal - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
118. oldal - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
204. 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...
204. oldal - Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
222. 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...
338. 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.
216. oldal - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
233. 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.