American Quarterly Review, Volume 4Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... says Dr. Reid , " en- deavoured to demonstrate the impossibility of motion ; Hobbes , that there was no difference between right and wrong ; and Hume , that no credit is to be given to our senses , to our memory , or even to ...
... says Dr. Reid , " en- deavoured to demonstrate the impossibility of motion ; Hobbes , that there was no difference between right and wrong ; and Hume , that no credit is to be given to our senses , to our memory , or even to ...
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... says , " the Physics of mind are like those of matter , only an analysis and arrangement of its phenomena . " This is more difficult in mind than in matter ; but these difficulties are by no means insur- mountable . The phenomena of ...
... says , " the Physics of mind are like those of matter , only an analysis and arrangement of its phenomena . " This is more difficult in mind than in matter ; but these difficulties are by no means insur- mountable . The phenomena of ...
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... says , " What consti- tutes the mind but its thoughts and feelings ? " It may indeed with propriety be asked , is there any thing else which we can know of it , or by which it can be defined ? and if not , what evi- dence can we have ...
... says , " What consti- tutes the mind but its thoughts and feelings ? " It may indeed with propriety be asked , is there any thing else which we can know of it , or by which it can be defined ? and if not , what evi- dence can we have ...
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... says , we can know no- thing of matter or of mind , but the phenomena they exhibit , the true object of inquiry in both these departments of science , is the analysis of what is complex , and the arrangement of what is successive , in ...
... says , we can know no- thing of matter or of mind , but the phenomena they exhibit , the true object of inquiry in both these departments of science , is the analysis of what is complex , and the arrangement of what is successive , in ...
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... says Brown , essential to philosophy , in all its forms , as they are physically essential to the preserva- tion of our animal existence . The rash and unphilosophical exten- sion of them by some philosophers , and the misapprehension ...
... says Brown , essential to philosophy , in all its forms , as they are physically essential to the preserva- tion of our animal existence . The rash and unphilosophical exten- sion of them by some philosophers , and the misapprehension ...
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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.