Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 2. köideM. Newman, 1822 |
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... external things . In the use of antithesis , then , -as much as in the use of the other rhetorical forms of thought and expression before con- sidered by us , it is in the general nature of spontaneous suggestion , that we have to find ...
... external things . In the use of antithesis , then , -as much as in the use of the other rhetorical forms of thought and expression before con- sidered by us , it is in the general nature of spontaneous suggestion , that we have to find ...
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... - gestions of analogy , would become instantly creative , -new forms , of external beauty , or of internal passion , would crowd upon his mind , by their analogy to ideas and feelings previously 46 SECONDARY LAWS OF SUGGESTION .
... - gestions of analogy , would become instantly creative , -new forms , of external beauty , or of internal passion , would crowd upon his mind , by their analogy to ideas and feelings previously 46 SECONDARY LAWS OF SUGGESTION .
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... external things seem to suggest , are thus , in part at least , suggested by the permanent emotion within . When Eloisa , in Pope's celebrated Epistle , thinks of the in- vention of letters , the only uses which her train of thought sug ...
... external things seem to suggest , are thus , in part at least , suggested by the permanent emotion within . When Eloisa , in Pope's celebrated Epistle , thinks of the in- vention of letters , the only uses which her train of thought sug ...
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... external influence , as the standard of good and bad taste , in every nation and age that for ever will be striving to imitate their noble proportions . I passed from one to the other , I touch- ed them , I measured them , with ...
... external influence , as the standard of good and bad taste , in every nation and age that for ever will be striving to imitate their noble proportions . I passed from one to the other , I touch- ed them , I measured them , with ...
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... external object is very in- teresting , it produces a considerable effect , before the permanence can have operated so far as to have collected and condensed , if I may so express it , any very considerable number of ideas . After the ...
... external object is very in- teresting , it produces a considerable effect , before the permanence can have operated so far as to have collected and condensed , if I may so express it , any very considerable number of ideas . After the ...
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Page 63 - 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 63 - That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among the ruins of lona.
Page 429 - God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and. more wide, th...
Page 180 - I have often beheld two of those sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs, like pedlars among us; who, when they met in the streets, would lay down their loads, open their sacks, and hold conversation for an hour together ; then put up their implements, help each other to resume their burthens, and take their leave.
Page 419 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting Sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Page 421 - They are ultimately founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions; because, upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconsistent with a certain general rule. The general rule, on the contrary, is formed, by finding from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumstanced in a certain manner, are approved or disapproved...
Page 117 - Canst thou deny it,'' Did not goodwife Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly.'' coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar; telling us she had a good dish of prawns; whereby thou didst desire to eat some; whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Page 208 - 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 394 - With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 295 - Of human race; the large ambitious wish To make them blest; the sigh for suffering worth Lost in obscurity; the noble scorn Of tyrant pride; the fearless great resolve; The wonder which the dying patriot draws, Inspiring glory through remotest time; Th...