Elements of Mental and Moral Science: Designed to Exhibit the Original Susceptibilities of the Mind, and the Rule by which the Rectitude of Any of Its States Or Feelings Should be Judged

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J. Leavitt, 1829 - 451 oldal
 

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43. oldal - I suspect, I say, that this way of speaking of faculties has misled many into a confused notion of so many distinct agents in us, which had their several provinces and authorities, and did command, obey, and perform several actions, as so many distinct beings; which has been no small occasion of wrangling, obscurity, and uncertainty in questions relating to them.
139. oldal - to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord.
268. oldal - Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them; otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which 10 is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
53. oldal - ... the very first exercise of consciousness necessarily implies a belief, not only of the present existence of what is felt, but of the present existence of that which feels...
85. oldal - When I say, I see, I hear, I feel, I remember, this implies that it is one and the same self that performs all these operations ; and as it would be absurd to say, that my memory, another man's imagination, and a third man's reason, may make one individual intelligent being, it would be equally absurd to say, that one piece of matter seeing, another hearing, and a third feeling, may make one and the same percipient being. These sentiments are not new : they have occurred to thinking men from early...
259. oldal - Volition, it is plain, is an act. of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or with-holding it from, any particular action.
93. oldal - ... means no more but that it excludes other bodies from occupying the same place at the same time. Hardness, softness, and fluidity are different degrees of cohesion in the parts of a body. It is fluid when it has no sensible cohesion ; soft, when the cohesion is weak ; and hard, when it is strong. Of the cause of this cohesion we are ignorant, but the thing itself we understand perfectly, being immediately informed of it by the sense of touch.
95. oldal - Perception has always an external object ; and the object of my perception, in this case, is that quality in the rose which I discern by the sense of smell. Observing that the agreeable sensation is raised when the rose is near, and ceases when it is removed, I am led by my nature to conclude some quality to be in the rose which is the cause of this sensation. This quality in the rose is the object perceived ; and that act of...
94. oldal - And what resemblance can either bear to the changes which take place in the state of a sentient being? That we have notions of external qualities which have no resemblance to our sensations, or to any thing of which the mind is conscious, is therefore a fact of which every man's experience affords the completes!
301. oldal - ... from the thought of murdering the little prattler who is sporting at her knee ; and who is not more beautiful to her eye by external charms and graces, than beautiful to her heart by the thousand tendernesses which every day, and almost every hour, is developing; while the child who, perhaps, has scarcely heard that there is a God, or who, at least, is ignorant of any will of God, in conformity with which virtue consists, is still in his very ignorance, developing...

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