Elements of Intellectual Philosophy: Or, An Analysis of the Powers of the Human Understanding, Tending to Ascertain the Principles of Rational LogicArchibald Constable & Company, 1805 - Всего страниц: 491 |
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Стр. 64 - Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, viz. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind...
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Стр. 95 - When theoretical knowledge and practical skill are happily combined in the same person, the intellectual power of man appears in its full perfection, and fits him equally to conduct, with a masterly hand, the details of ordinary business, and to contend successfully with the untried difficulties of new and hazardous situations.
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Стр. 51 - ... otherwise thought of. ^For the second sort, viz., the powers to produce several ideas in us by our senses, are looked upon as real qualities in the things thus affecting us; but the third sort are called and esteemed barely powers.