Mental Philosophy: Including the Intellect, Sensibilities, and WillGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 590 Seiten |
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... impression , and made the want of a book better adapted to the purposes of instruc- tion , in our American Colleges , more deeply felt . The works on mental science , which have recently appeared in this country , while they are ...
... impression , and made the want of a book better adapted to the purposes of instruc- tion , in our American Colleges , more deeply felt . The works on mental science , which have recently appeared in this country , while they are ...
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... a clock strikes within a few feet of us , while we are busily engaged , and we do not notice it , or know that it has struck , yet if questioned afterward , are conscious of an impression that we have 40 CONSCIOUSNESS .
... a clock strikes within a few feet of us , while we are busily engaged , and we do not notice it , or know that it has struck , yet if questioned afterward , are conscious of an impression that we have 40 CONSCIOUSNESS .
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... impression that we have heard it ; as when also while reading aloud to another per- son , some thought arrests our attention , and yet by a sort of mechanical process , we continue the reading , our mind , meanwhile , wholly occupied ...
... impression that we have heard it ; as when also while reading aloud to another per- son , some thought arrests our attention , and yet by a sort of mechanical process , we continue the reading , our mind , meanwhile , wholly occupied ...
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... impression upon us . one . - The true Explanation . In the other cases referred to , the explanation now given is still more evidently the true What is called an absence of consciousness is simply an absence of attention at the time ...
... impression upon us . one . - The true Explanation . In the other cases referred to , the explanation now given is still more evidently the true What is called an absence of consciousness is simply an absence of attention at the time ...
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... impression from its statements - and the reading of the same volume with fixed and careful attention , every word observed , every sentiment weighed , and the whole mental energy directed to the subject in hand . We pass , in the ...
... impression from its statements - and the reading of the same volume with fixed and careful attention , every word observed , every sentiment weighed , and the whole mental energy directed to the subject in hand . We pass , in the ...
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abstract action affection affirm already Aristotle ARNOLD GUYOT association attention awakened beautiful body brute called cause ception character circumstances cognizance color conceive conception connection consciousness constitution denote Descartes desire distinct distinguished Dugald Stewart elements emotion essential exercise existence external object fact faculty feeling former gism given human mind idea ideal imagination impression instinctive intellectual involved judgment knowledge laws laws of thought Maine de Biran Malebranche matter memory ment mental activity Mental Philosophy mental powers merely moral motive nature Nominalist observation operations organism original ourselves passing perceive perception phenomena philosophy philosophy of perception present principle produced properly proposition qualities question reality reason recall regard Reid relation result sensation sense sensible simple Sir William Hamilton Socrates specific Stewart suggestion supposed syllogism taste term theory thing thought tion true truth volition Wayland whole word writers
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Seite 398 - Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train And sable stole of cyprus lawn, Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait, And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Seite 416 - He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing.
Seite 420 - He was perfumed like a milliner, And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon He gave his nose and took 't away again; Who, therewith angry, when it next came there, Took it in snuff...
Seite 414 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Seite 157 - The twilight hours, like birds, flew by, As lightly and as free ; Ten thousand stars were in the sky, Ten thousand on the sea ; For every wave with dimpled face, That leaped upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there.
Seite 420 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom...
Seite 536 - ... nothing but that particular determination of the mind whereby, barely by a thought, the mind endeavours to give rise, continuation, or stop to any action which it takes to be in its power.
Seite 213 - ... and it is only under the character of a constituted or containing whole, or of a constituting or contained part, that any thing can become the term of a logical argumentation.
Seite 218 - If, from our experience of John, Thomas, &c., who once were living, but are now dead, we are entitled to conclude that all human beings are mortal, we might surely without any logical inconsequence have concluded at once from those instances, that the Duke of Wellington is mortal. The mortality of John, Thomas, and company is, after all, the whole evidence we have for the mortality of the Duke of Wellington. Not one iota is added to the proof by interpolating a general proposition.
Seite 55 - I have given of it, is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. But we have, moreover, a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our own creation. I shall employ the word imagination to express this power...