Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1M. Newman, 1822 - 587 pages |
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... elements , and trace with exactness the series of sim- pler thoughts which have progressively given rise to them ... element of moral good or evil , in all the physical good and evil 14 INTRODUCTION .
... elements , and trace with exactness the series of sim- pler thoughts which have progressively given rise to them ... element of moral good or evil , in all the physical good and evil 14 INTRODUCTION .
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... elements have never once been regarded as subjects of speculative inquiry . You have much , therefore , to learn , even in learning only what others have thought . But I should be unwilling to regard you as the passive receivers of a ...
... elements have never once been regarded as subjects of speculative inquiry . You have much , therefore , to learn , even in learning only what others have thought . But I should be unwilling to regard you as the passive receivers of a ...
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... elements which he has to put together , or the compounds which he has to analyze , and the in- struments that are to perform the analysis or composition . It was not , however , to point out to you the advantage which arises to the ...
... elements which he has to put together , or the compounds which he has to analyze , and the in- struments that are to perform the analysis or composition . It was not , however , to point out to you the advantage which arises to the ...
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... Elements of Geometry , he was able , in a very large proportion of cases , to pass immediately from Theorem to Theorem , by reading the mere enunciation of each , perceiving , as it were intuitively , that latent evidence , which others ...
... Elements of Geometry , he was able , in a very large proportion of cases , to pass immediately from Theorem to Theorem , by reading the mere enunciation of each , perceiving , as it were intuitively , that latent evidence , which others ...
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... elements of excellence in the artist are not ab- solutely requisite for the judgment of the sage and discriminating admirer of the noble works which that excellence may have pro- duced , some of these elements unquestionably are ...
... elements of excellence in the artist are not ab- solutely requisite for the judgment of the sage and discriminating admirer of the noble works which that excellence may have pro- duced , some of these elements unquestionably are ...
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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.