Elements of the Philosophy of the Human MindT. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis, 1802 - 587 Seiten |
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... what the human mind is able to accomplish in this department of science , the contempt , into which it has fallen of late , might with juftice be regarded , B regarded , as no inconfiderable evidence of the progrefs which.
... what the human mind is able to accomplish in this department of science , the contempt , into which it has fallen of late , might with juftice be regarded , B regarded , as no inconfiderable evidence of the progrefs which.
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... able to guard against analogical theories . At the fame time , it must be acknowledged , that fince the pub- lication of Des Cartes ' writings , there has been a gradual , and , on the whole , a very remarkable im- provement in this ...
... able to guard against analogical theories . At the fame time , it must be acknowledged , that fince the pub- lication of Des Cartes ' writings , there has been a gradual , and , on the whole , a very remarkable im- provement in this ...
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... able to demon- ftrate their truth . A feaman , though ignorant of mathematics , may apply , with correctnefs and dex- terity , the rules for finding the longitude : An aftro- nomer , or a botanist , though ignorant of optics , may avail ...
... able to demon- ftrate their truth . A feaman , though ignorant of mathematics , may apply , with correctnefs and dex- terity , the rules for finding the longitude : An aftro- nomer , or a botanist , though ignorant of optics , may avail ...
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... able , a refpectable , and an ufeful member of fociety . A man who lofes his fight , improves the fenfibility of his touch ; but who would confent , for fuch a recom- pence , to part with the pleasures which he receives from the eye ...
... able , a refpectable , and an ufeful member of fociety . A man who lofes his fight , improves the fenfibility of his touch ; but who would confent , for fuch a recom- pence , to part with the pleasures which he receives from the eye ...
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... able to the intentions of nature , In confequence of an exclufive attention to the culture of the imagination , the taste , the reafoning faculty , or any of the active principles , it is poffible that the pleasures of human life may be ...
... able to the intentions of nature , In confequence of an exclufive attention to the culture of the imagination , the taste , the reafoning faculty , or any of the active principles , it is poffible that the pleasures of human life may be ...
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Seite 228 - These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things, is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Seite 366 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 325 - ... are produced with any constancy or any certainty, for this is not the nature of chance; but the rules by which men of extraordinary parts, and such as are called men of Genius work, are either such as they discover by their own peculiar observations...
Seite 509 - 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 of the portrait.
Seite 227 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Seite 289 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns.
Seite 481 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Seite 378 - ... them. As Greece and Rome are the fountains from whence have flowed all kinds of excellence, to that veneration which they have a right to claim for the...
Seite 134 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Seite 292 - Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old ! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast, and freedom on each brow ; — How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring...