Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1S. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... appear more admirable , to him who contemplates it , as it were , from the height of his own mind , and who measures its infinity with the range of his own limited but as- piring faculties . He is unquestionably the philosopher most ...
... appear more admirable , to him who contemplates it , as it were , from the height of his own mind , and who measures its infinity with the range of his own limited but as- piring faculties . He is unquestionably the philosopher most ...
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... appear . It is not so , that nature has abandoned us , with principles which we must fear to examine , and with truths and illu- sions which we must never dare to separate . In teaching us what our pow- ers are incapable of attaining ...
... appear . It is not so , that nature has abandoned us , with principles which we must fear to examine , and with truths and illu- sions which we must never dare to separate . In teaching us what our pow- ers are incapable of attaining ...
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... appears to us so very easy to believe what we consider as true , -or , rather , it appears to us so impossible to disbelieve it , that , if we judge from our own momentary feelings only , without any knowledge of the general nature of ...
... appears to us so very easy to believe what we consider as true , -or , rather , it appears to us so impossible to disbelieve it , that , if we judge from our own momentary feelings only , without any knowledge of the general nature of ...
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... appear , it becomes , in some mea- sure , requisite to those who would describe with success the obvious and out- ward appearances of life and manners . The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects ; but ...
... appear , it becomes , in some mea- sure , requisite to those who would describe with success the obvious and out- ward appearances of life and manners . The anatomist presents to the eye the most hideous and disagreeable objects ; but ...
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... appear most wild and irregular , as in the calmest successions of feeling of the most tranquil hours . It would indeed , be too much to say , as in the well known couplet of Pope , " Let such teach others who themselves excel , And ...
... appear most wild and irregular , as in the calmest successions of feeling of the most tranquil hours . It would indeed , be too much to say , as in the well known couplet of Pope , " Let such teach others who themselves excel , And ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.