American Quarterly Review, Volume 4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... ancient philosophers mistook not less in the object of their study , than in the method of its investigation . Their in- quiries were directed to the nature and essence of mind , and the mode of its union with matter , rather than to ...
... ancient philosophers mistook not less in the object of their study , than in the method of its investigation . Their in- quiries were directed to the nature and essence of mind , and the mode of its union with matter , rather than to ...
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... ancient systems . " The conquests of Alexander live only in books of history , but a few phrases achieved for Aristotle a far more extensive and lasting conquest ; and are perhaps even now exerting no small sway over minds , which smile ...
... ancient systems . " The conquests of Alexander live only in books of history , but a few phrases achieved for Aristotle a far more extensive and lasting conquest ; and are perhaps even now exerting no small sway over minds , which smile ...
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... ancient philosophy , ) has occasioned a deplorable waste of intellect , even in our own times . It brought confusion into the reasonings of so sound an understanding as that of Locke ; e . g . he thought it necessary to adduce reasons ...
... ancient philosophy , ) has occasioned a deplorable waste of intellect , even in our own times . It brought confusion into the reasonings of so sound an understanding as that of Locke ; e . g . he thought it necessary to adduce reasons ...
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... ancient systems , that it is difficult to use them without receiving some little bias of error . This circumstance induces each writer to make a new selection of terms , and he is guided in his choice by those analogies which his own ...
... ancient systems , that it is difficult to use them without receiving some little bias of error . This circumstance induces each writer to make a new selection of terms , and he is guided in his choice by those analogies which his own ...
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... ancient , ( says Brown , ) is very illogical . As none of the classifications of mental phenomena which have yet been made are accurate or complete , he attempts a new arrangement . He begins with a caution against the supposition that ...
... ancient , ( says Brown , ) is very illogical . As none of the classifications of mental phenomena which have yet been made are accurate or complete , he attempts a new arrangement . He begins with a caution against the supposition that ...
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Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 282 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid ; star of the east, the horizon adorning, guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 147 - In heaven ambition cannot dwell, Nor avarice in the vaults of hell; Earthly these passions of the earth, They perish where they have their birth -, But love is indestructible. Its holy flame for ever burneth; from heaven it came, to heaven...
Page 397 - Marshal of the district into which they are brought ; and to appoint a proper person or persons, residing upon the coast of Africa, as agent or agents for receiving the negroes, mulattoes, or persons of colour, delivered from on board vessels seized in the prosecution of the Slave Trade by commanders of The United States
Page 284 - Thou art gone to the grave ; but we will not deplore thee; Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian, and guide : He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee ; And death has no sting, for the Saviour hasoied.
Page 396 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Page 196 - Shakspearc and Milton, like gods in the fight, Have put their whole drama and epic to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope. Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French, \ and will beat forty more...
Page 274 - Committee, that it is the duty of this country to promote the interest and happiness of the native inhabitants of the British dominions in India, and thai such measures ought to be adopted, as may tend to the introduction among them of useful knowledge, and of religious and moral improvement.
Page 282 - Cold on his cradle the dew-drops are shining, Low lies his head with the beasts of the stall ; Angels adore him in slumber reclining, Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.