Elements of the Philosophy of the Human MindT. Cadell, jun. and W. Davis, 1802 - 587 Seiten |
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... observations which have been made , it fufficiently appears , that in order to fecure the mind , on the one hand , from the influence of prejudice ; and on the other , from a tendency to unlimited fcep- ticism ; it is necessary that it ...
... observations which have been made , it fufficiently appears , that in order to fecure the mind , on the one hand , from the influence of prejudice ; and on the other , from a tendency to unlimited fcep- ticism ; it is necessary that it ...
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... observation of his eye , is conftantly requifite . It is evident that the part of his body which fupports the object is I 3 never never wholly at reft ; otherwife the object would no Chap . II . 117 OF THE HUMAN MIND .
... observation of his eye , is conftantly requifite . It is evident that the part of his body which fupports the object is I 3 never never wholly at reft ; otherwife the object would no Chap . II . 117 OF THE HUMAN MIND .
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... observation ; is not only felf - evident , but almoft an identical propofition . In answer to this question , the Platonists , and , at a ftill earlier period , the Pythagoreans , taught , that , al- though these univerfal ideas are not ...
... observation ; is not only felf - evident , but almoft an identical propofition . In answer to this question , the Platonists , and , at a ftill earlier period , the Pythagoreans , taught , that , al- though these univerfal ideas are not ...
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... observations will , I flatter myself , be sufficient for the fatisfaction of fuch of my readers as are at all converfant with philofophical inquiries . For the fake of others , to whom this difquifition may be new , I have added the ...
... observations will , I flatter myself , be sufficient for the fatisfaction of fuch of my readers as are at all converfant with philofophical inquiries . For the fake of others , to whom this difquifition may be new , I have added the ...
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Dugald Stewart. ftanding the meaning of propofitions involving general terms . But the observations he has made ( admitting them in their full extent ) do not in the least affect the question about the neceffity of figns , to enable us ...
Dugald Stewart. ftanding the meaning of propofitions involving general terms . But the observations he has made ( admitting them in their full extent ) do not in the least affect the question about the neceffity of figns , to enable us ...
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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...