Essays on the Intellectual Powers of ManJ. Bartlett, 1850 - 462 Seiten |
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... necessary to examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were fitted or not fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed that this should be our ...
... necessary to examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were fitted or not fitted to deal with . This I proposed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed that this should be our ...
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... necessary steps in the progress to something more certain ; and nearly every thing which is now theory was once hypothesis . Even in purely experimental sci- ence , some inducement is necessary for trying one experiment rather than ...
... necessary steps in the progress to something more certain ; and nearly every thing which is now theory was once hypothesis . Even in purely experimental sci- ence , some inducement is necessary for trying one experiment rather than ...
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... necessary to feel them . For this reason , the phenomena of conscious- ness necessarily escape all external observation . " Ripley's Philo- sophical Miscellanies , Vol . II . p . 15 . - To the same effect Cousin : " But is a knowledge ...
... necessary to feel them . For this reason , the phenomena of conscious- ness necessarily escape all external observation . " Ripley's Philo- sophical Miscellanies , Vol . II . p . 15 . - To the same effect Cousin : " But is a knowledge ...
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... necessary for all men , or for many , to be philoso- phers . There is a philosophic ( and , inasmuch as it is actualized by an effort of freedom , an artificial ) consciousness which lies beneath , or , as it were , behind , the ...
... necessary for all men , or for many , to be philoso- phers . There is a philosophic ( and , inasmuch as it is actualized by an effort of freedom , an artificial ) consciousness which lies beneath , or , as it were , behind , the ...
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... necessary that we should have these organs , but that they should be in a sound and natural state . There are many ... necessary . We ought not , therefore , to conclude , that such bodily organs are , in their own nature , necessary to ...
... necessary that we should have these organs , but that they should be in a sound and natural state . There are many ... necessary . We ought not , therefore , to conclude , that such bodily organs are , in their own nature , necessary to ...
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Seite 425 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Seite 344 - Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main. Hear how Timotheus' varied lays surprise, And bid alternate passions fall and rise! While at each change the son of Libyan 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 the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Seite 90 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks...
Seite 62 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without...
Seite 90 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our (knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Seite 128 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy, which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Seite 224 - The dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand, but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Seite 102 - ... all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world, have not any subsistence without a mind, that their being is to be perceived or known ; that consequently so long as they are not actually perceived by me, or do not exist in my mind or that of any other created spirit, they must either have no existence at all, or else subsist in the mind of some Eternal Spirit...
Seite 185 - A young woman of four or five and twenty, who could neither read nor write, was seized •with a nervous fever ; during which, according to the asseverations of all the priests and monks of the neighborhood, she became possessed, and, as it appeared, by a very learned devil.
Seite 159 - ... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again...