Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1S. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... truly the most important , and minds of the highest genius , in reflecting on their own constitution , so richly diversified and adorned with an almost infinite variety of forms of thought , discovering nothing , in all this splendid ...
... truly the most important , and minds of the highest genius , in reflecting on their own constitution , so richly diversified and adorned with an almost infinite variety of forms of thought , discovering nothing , in all this splendid ...
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... truly impressed with the great doctrine of moral obligation , and truly desirous , in conformity with it , of increasing , as far as his individual influence may extend , the sum of general happiness , he may still err in the selection ...
... truly impressed with the great doctrine of moral obligation , and truly desirous , in conformity with it , of increasing , as far as his individual influence may extend , the sum of general happiness , he may still err in the selection ...
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... truly said , that , in relation to our power of discovery , science is itself an art , or the result of an art . Whether , in this most beautiful of processes , we regard the mind as the instrument or the artist , it is equally that by ...
... truly said , that , in relation to our power of discovery , science is itself an art , or the result of an art . Whether , in this most beautiful of processes , we regard the mind as the instrument or the artist , it is equally that by ...
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... truly humble , which can exercise faculties that are themselves sublime . -Search , undismayed the dark profound , Where nature works in secret ; view the beds Of mineral treasure , and the eternal vault That bounds the hoary ocean ...
... truly humble , which can exercise faculties that are themselves sublime . -Search , undismayed the dark profound , Where nature works in secret ; view the beds Of mineral treasure , and the eternal vault That bounds the hoary ocean ...
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... truly honourable to their tenderness , have yet little fore- sight of the mere pains of thought ; and while , in the same situation , the rich and better educated , with equal , or perhaps even with less benevolence of intention ...
... truly honourable to their tenderness , have yet little fore- sight of the mere pains of thought ; and while , in the same situation , the rich and better educated , with equal , or perhaps even with less benevolence of intention ...
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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.