Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1. kötetWells and Lilly, 1814 - 491 oldal |
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... Genius 396 CHAPTER VII . - Of Imagination 403 SECTION I. - Analysis of Imagination ib . II . - Of Imagination considered in its relation to some of the Fine Arts 410 III . - Continuation of the same Subject . - Relation of Imagination ...
... Genius 396 CHAPTER VII . - Of Imagination 403 SECTION I. - Analysis of Imagination ib . II . - Of Imagination considered in its relation to some of the Fine Arts 410 III . - Continuation of the same Subject . - Relation of Imagination ...
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... genius , and character , we observe among men . To instruct youth in the languages , and in the sciences , is comparatively of little importance , if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire ; and are not careful in giving , to all ...
... genius , and character , we observe among men . To instruct youth in the languages , and in the sciences , is comparatively of little importance , if we are inattentive to the habits they acquire ; and are not careful in giving , to all ...
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... genius for the abstract sciences , while it is deficient in vivacity , in imagi- nation , and in taste : another is no less distinguished for wit , and gayety , and fancy ; while it appears incapable of patient attention , or of ...
... genius for the abstract sciences , while it is deficient in vivacity , in imagi- nation , and in taste : another is no less distinguished for wit , and gayety , and fancy ; while it appears incapable of patient attention , or of ...
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... genius were allowed to shoot up , wild and free ; while , from the most careful and skilful tuition , sel- dom any thing results above mediocrity . I shall not , at present , enter into any discussions with respect to the certainty of ...
... genius were allowed to shoot up , wild and free ; while , from the most careful and skilful tuition , sel- dom any thing results above mediocrity . I shall not , at present , enter into any discussions with respect to the certainty of ...
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... genius " ( says Voltaire ) " occurs but seldom in a nation " where the literary taste is formed . The number of cul- " tivated minds which there abound , like the trees in a " thick and flourishing forest , prevent any single individual ...
... genius " ( says Voltaire ) " occurs but seldom in a nation " where the literary taste is formed . The number of cul- " tivated minds which there abound , like the trees in a " thick and flourishing forest , prevent any single individual ...
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245. oldal - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
249. oldal - And when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer dy'd three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in Ink, my parents, or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father disobey'd. The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not Wife, To help me thro...
11. oldal - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
60. oldal - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
245. oldal - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
419. oldal - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...
461. oldal - ... of them particular in their existence, even those words and ideas which in their signification are general. When therefore we quit particulars, the generals that rest are only creatures of our own making, their general nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
461. oldal - ... ideas are general, when they are set up as the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence; even those words and ideas, which in their signification are general.
415. oldal - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the od'rous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame. 11.3. Woods, that wave o'er Delphi's steep. Isles that crown th...
96. oldal - One of these is the proposition that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side.