Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1M. Newman, 1822 - 587 pages |
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... appear more admirable , to him who con- templates it , as it were , from the height of his own mind , and who measures its infinity with the range of his own limited but aspiring faculties . He is unquestionably the philosopher most ...
... appear more admirable , to him who con- templates it , as it were , from the height of his own mind , and who measures its infinity with the range of his own limited but aspiring faculties . He is unquestionably the philosopher most ...
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... appear . It is not so , that nature has abandoned us , with principles which we must fear to examine , and with truths and illusions which we must never dare to separate . In teaching us what our powers are in- capable of attaining ...
... appear . It is not so , that nature has abandoned us , with principles which we must fear to examine , and with truths and illusions which we must never dare to separate . In teaching us what our powers are in- capable of attaining ...
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... appears to us so very easy to believe what we consider as true , -or , rather , it appears to us so impossible to disbelieve it , that , if we judge from our own momentary feelings Seneca , de Ira , lib . ii . cap . 9 . * only , without ...
... appears to us so very easy to believe what we consider as true , -or , rather , it appears to us so impossible to disbelieve it , that , if we judge from our own momentary feelings Seneca , de Ira , lib . ii . cap . 9 . * only , without ...
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... appear , it becomes , in some measure , requisite to those who would describe with success the obvious and outward appearances of life and manners . The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects ; but his ...
... appear , it becomes , in some measure , requisite to those who would describe with success the obvious and outward appearances of life and manners . The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects ; but his ...
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... appear most wild and irregular , as in the calmest succes- sions of feeling of the most tranquil hours . It would indeed , be too much to say , as in the well known couplet of Pope , " Let such teach others who themselves excel , And ...
... appear most wild and irregular , as in the calmest succes- sions of feeling of the most tranquil hours . It would indeed , be too much to say , as in the well known couplet of Pope , " Let such teach others who themselves excel , And ...
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Page 234 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Page 316 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And...
Page 402 - To ask, at what TIME a man has first any ideas, is to ask, when he begins to perceive; — HAVING IDEAS, and PERCEPTION, being the same thing.
Page 190 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 467 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.
Page 438 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest...
Page 36 - When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and disclaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
Page 42 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see : That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 86 - ... several sorts of bodies that fall under the examination of our senses perhaps we may have : but adequate ideas, I suspect, we have not of any one amongst them. And though the former of these will serve us for common use and discourse, yet whilst we want the latter, we are not capable of scientifical knowledge ; nor shall ever be able to discover general, instructive, unquestionable truths concerning them. Certainty and demonstration are things we must not, in these matters, pretend to.
Page 356 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it.