Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1M. Newman, 1822 - 587 pages |
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... equally , or still more important , would remain .. We do not know all which is to be known of the mind , when we know all its phenomena , as we know all which can be known of matter , when we know the appearances which it presents , in ...
... equally , or still more important , would remain .. We do not know all which is to be known of the mind , when we know all its phenomena , as we know all which can be known of matter , when we know the appearances which it presents , in ...
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... equally that by which all the wonders of speculative , or practical knowledge , are evolved . It is an agent operating in the production of new results , and employing for this purpose the known laws of thought , in the same manner as ...
... equally that by which all the wonders of speculative , or practical knowledge , are evolved . It is an agent operating in the production of new results , and employing for this purpose the known laws of thought , in the same manner as ...
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... equally certain , that this sim- ple change alone would be sufficient to alter the very nature of the limited science of which the mind would still be capable , as much as it narrowed its extent ? Science is the classification of ...
... equally certain , that this sim- ple change alone would be sufficient to alter the very nature of the limited science of which the mind would still be capable , as much as it narrowed its extent ? Science is the classification of ...
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... equally essential to their existence as subjects of moral govern- ment , she has left them , together with principles of improvement that ensure their intellectual progress , a susceptibility of error , without which there could be no ...
... equally essential to their existence as subjects of moral govern- ment , she has left them , together with principles of improvement that ensure their intellectual progress , a susceptibility of error , without which there could be no ...
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... equally easy to show , how the one passage is beautiful , from its truth of charac- ter , and the other , though perhaps rich in harmony of rhythm and rhetorical ornament , is yet faulty , by its violation of the more im- portant ...
... equally easy to show , how the one passage is beautiful , from its truth of charac- ter , and the other , though perhaps rich in harmony of rhythm and rhetorical ornament , is yet faulty , by its violation of the more im- portant ...
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Page 234 - 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.
Page 316 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And...
Page 402 - To ask, at what TIME a man has first any ideas, is to ask, when he begins to perceive; — HAVING IDEAS, and PERCEPTION, being the same thing.
Page 190 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 467 - 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.
Page 438 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest...
Page 36 - When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and disclaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
Page 42 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see : That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 86 - ... several sorts of bodies that fall under the examination of our senses perhaps we may have : but adequate ideas, I suspect, we have not of any one amongst them. And though the former of these will serve us for common use and discourse, yet whilst we want the latter, we are not capable of scientifical knowledge ; nor shall ever be able to discover general, instructive, unquestionable truths concerning them. Certainty and demonstration are things we must not, in these matters, pretend to.
Page 356 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it.