Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumen1S. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... distinguish , in our most complex thought or emotion , its constituent ele- ments , and trace with exactness the series of simpler thoughts which have pro- gressively given rise to them , other inquiries , equally , or still more ...
... distinguish , in our most complex thought or emotion , its constituent ele- ments , and trace with exactness the series of simpler thoughts which have pro- gressively given rise to them , other inquiries , equally , or still more ...
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... distinguishes that almost invisible orb ; and it is as important , and surely as interesting , to know the real power of the intellectual instrument , which he uses , not for calculations of this kind only , but for all the speculative ...
... distinguishes that almost invisible orb ; and it is as important , and surely as interesting , to know the real power of the intellectual instrument , which he uses , not for calculations of this kind only , but for all the speculative ...
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... distinguishing , must we have remained in absolute ignorance ! But would this comparative igno- rance of many objects be the only effect of such a change of the laws of mind , as I have supposed ? Or rather , is it not equally certain ...
... distinguishing , must we have remained in absolute ignorance ! But would this comparative igno- rance of many objects be the only effect of such a change of the laws of mind , as I have supposed ? Or rather , is it not equally certain ...
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... distinguish the bounding cir- cle , cannot surely , be the dullest to perceive the truths that are within . To know only to doubt , is but the first step in philosophy ; and to rest at this first step , is either imbecility or idleness ...
... distinguish the bounding cir- cle , cannot surely , be the dullest to perceive the truths that are within . To know only to doubt , is but the first step in philosophy ; and to rest at this first step , is either imbecility or idleness ...
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... distinguishing the questions in which we may justly hope to discover truth , from those questions of idle and endless controversy , the decision of which is altogether beyond the reach of our faculties ; and the consequent modera- tion ...
... distinguishing the questions in which we may justly hope to discover truth , from those questions of idle and endless controversy , the decision of which is altogether beyond the reach of our faculties ; and the consequent modera- tion ...
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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.