The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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... given over to an almost total anarchy . Only the most powerful towns were able to maintain their independence , and many of them and of the clergy paid regular black - mail to the nearest nobles . Thus rotten within , it is no wonder ...
... given over to an almost total anarchy . Only the most powerful towns were able to maintain their independence , and many of them and of the clergy paid regular black - mail to the nearest nobles . Thus rotten within , it is no wonder ...
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... given sensation depends upon certain physical quantities , varying directly in some proportion as these vary . Hence , since our habitual standpoint is the physical not the psy- chological , we conceive sensory objects as having an ...
... given sensation depends upon certain physical quantities , varying directly in some proportion as these vary . Hence , since our habitual standpoint is the physical not the psy- chological , we conceive sensory objects as having an ...
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... given moment a certain distribution of attention between sensory and motor presentations ; a change in that dis- tribution means a change in the intensity of some or all of these , and change of intensity in motor presentations means ...
... given moment a certain distribution of attention between sensory and motor presentations ; a change in that dis- tribution means a change in the intensity of some or all of these , and change of intensity in motor presentations means ...
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... given , then it may be safely said that , in accordance with what we have called the principle of subjective selection ( see p . 42 ) , attention would be voluntarily concentrated upon some of them and voluntary movements specially ...
... given , then it may be safely said that , in accordance with what we have called the principle of subjective selection ( see p . 42 ) , attention would be voluntarily concentrated upon some of them and voluntary movements specially ...
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... given simple primordial presentation - the psychical counterpart , along with or before the impression itself . " 2 We are not they supposed , of a single nerve - shock or neural tremor- now concerned with so much of this statement as ...
... given simple primordial presentation - the psychical counterpart , along with or before the impression itself . " 2 We are not they supposed , of a single nerve - shock or neural tremor- now concerned with so much of this statement as ...
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