Elements of the philosophy of the human mindHilliard and Brown, 1829 |
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... , even if it were true , it would no more be proper to say of mind , that it is material , than to say of body , that it is spiritual . with the metaphysical speculations already mentioned . Of the importance 4 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
... , even if it were true , it would no more be proper to say of mind , that it is material , than to say of body , that it is spiritual . with the metaphysical speculations already mentioned . Of the importance 4 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
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Dugald Stewart. with the metaphysical speculations already mentioned . Of the importance of these , as a separate branch of study , it is possible that some may think more favora- bly than others ; but they are obviously different in ...
Dugald Stewart. with the metaphysical speculations already mentioned . Of the importance of these , as a separate branch of study , it is possible that some may think more favora- bly than others ; but they are obviously different in ...
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... mentioned ; with the addition of several others , recommended to the consideration of Philosophers and of Medical Inquirers , by the late Dr. Gregory . See his Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician . 1. The doctrine ...
... mentioned ; with the addition of several others , recommended to the consideration of Philosophers and of Medical Inquirers , by the late Dr. Gregory . See his Lectures on the Duties and Qualifications of a Physician . 1. The doctrine ...
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... sources of the errors to which we are liable . Among the different philosophers who have speculat- ed concerning the human mind , very few indeed can be mentioned , who have at all times been able 10 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
... sources of the errors to which we are liable . Among the different philosophers who have speculat- ed concerning the human mind , very few indeed can be mentioned , who have at all times been able 10 ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY.
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Dugald Stewart. be mentioned , who have at all times been able to guard against analogical theories . At the same time , it must be acknowledged , that since the publication of Des Cartes ' writings , there has been a gradual , and , on ...
Dugald Stewart. be mentioned , who have at all times been able to guard against analogical theories . At the same time , it must be acknowledged , that since the publication of Des Cartes ' writings , there has been a gradual , and , on ...
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Seite 221 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 377 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish, 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 ; — I was forced to go on with another part of...
Seite 406 - ... ideas are general, when they are set up as the representatives of many particular things : but universality belongs not to things themselves, which are all of them particular in their existence ; even those words and ideas which in their signification are general.
Seite 58 - It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.
Seite 61 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Seite 16 - I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public of peace and war.
Seite 416 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Seite 50 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
Seite 101 - 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 58 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...