Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumen1S. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... distance , and colour of an object , at which we look through an optical glass , without paying any regard to the co- lour and refractory power of the lens itself . The distinction of the sciences and arts , in the sense in which these ...
... distance , and colour of an object , at which we look through an optical glass , without paying any regard to the co- lour and refractory power of the lens itself . The distinction of the sciences and arts , in the sense in which these ...
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... distance ; and we avail ourselves of rules , that are the result of logical analysis , without reflecting , and almost without know- ing , that they are the result of any analysis whatever . We are , in this respect , like navigators on ...
... distance ; and we avail ourselves of rules , that are the result of logical analysis , without reflecting , and almost without know- ing , that they are the result of any analysis whatever . We are , in this respect , like navigators on ...
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... distance , are only lifeless idols , as insensible as the incense which we have offered to them . The study of the powers and limits of the understanding , and of the sources of evidence in external nature and ourselves , instead of ...
... distance , are only lifeless idols , as insensible as the incense which we have offered to them . The study of the powers and limits of the understanding , and of the sources of evidence in external nature and ourselves , instead of ...
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... distance , the virtues of other years , -implies a knowledge of the mental con- stitution , which can be acquired only by a diligent study of the nature , and progress , and successive transformations of feeling . It is easy to know ...
... distance , the virtues of other years , -implies a knowledge of the mental con- stitution , which can be acquired only by a diligent study of the nature , and progress , and successive transformations of feeling . It is easy to know ...
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... distance . It is this foresight acquired by attentive observation of the various characters of mankind in a long intercourse with society , which is the true knowledge of the world ; for the knowledge of the mere forms and ceremonies of ...
... distance . It is this foresight acquired by attentive observation of the various characters of mankind in a long intercourse with society , which is the true knowledge of the world ; for the knowledge of the mere forms and ceremonies of ...
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Página 383 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue.
Página 153 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Página 478 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult)! for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once.
Página 125 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Página 108 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Página 108 - Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end?
Página 285 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Página 460 - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
Página 354 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Página 304 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.