Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1S. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... notions , as to some of the phenomena of the mind , in misdirecting the spirit of our general philosophy . I allude ... notion of the connexion of events , would tend to the simplification , not of our theories of mind only , but , in a ...
... notions , as to some of the phenomena of the mind , in misdirecting the spirit of our general philosophy . I allude ... notion of the connexion of events , would tend to the simplification , not of our theories of mind only , but , in a ...
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... notion of the objects of inquiry , and of the plan on which alone investigation can be pursued with advantage , I should conceive , that you had profited far more , than if , with confused notions of the objects and plan of ...
... notion of the objects of inquiry , and of the plan on which alone investigation can be pursued with advantage , I should conceive , that you had profited far more , than if , with confused notions of the objects and plan of ...
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... notion of any property of matter whatever . In the enumeration of the qualities of glass , for example , when we speak of its properties , we suppose it to have changed , in every case , some relative position with the light that passes ...
... notion of any property of matter whatever . In the enumeration of the qualities of glass , for example , when we speak of its properties , we suppose it to have changed , in every case , some relative position with the light that passes ...
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... notion of talness , and some opposite quality in the shrub or weed , which corresponds with our notion of shortness or lowness ; so that the tree would deserve the name of tall , though it were the only object in existence , and the ...
... notion of talness , and some opposite quality in the shrub or weed , which corresponds with our notion of shortness or lowness ; so that the tree would deserve the name of tall , though it were the only object in existence , and the ...
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... notion of power ? A stone tends to the earth , —a stone will always tend to the earth , -are not the same proposition ; nor can the first be said to involve the second . It is not to experience , then , alone that we must have recourse ...
... notion of power ? A stone tends to the earth , —a stone will always tend to the earth , -are not the same proposition ; nor can the first be said to involve the second . It is not to experience , then , alone that we must have recourse ...
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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.