The Power of the Soul Over the BodyLongmans, Green, and Company, 1868 - 436 pages |
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... effort after moral excellence , since the stability of our character and ultimate condition is determined by the moral state of our will . We may conveniently regard the power of the soul in the following respects : - : - 1st . The ...
... effort after moral excellence , since the stability of our character and ultimate condition is determined by the moral state of our will . We may conveniently regard the power of the soul in the following respects : - : - 1st . The ...
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... effort we believe in the union between things and their properties . We should be mad if we did not . We also believe that a change in the property or action of anything is a change in the condition of the thing itself in relation to ...
... effort we believe in the union between things and their properties . We should be mad if we did not . We also believe that a change in the property or action of anything is a change in the condition of the thing itself in relation to ...
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... effort itself , or act of will . 2. The idea of substance is derived from that which remains the same through all variations of ex- istence . 3. The indivisible self , in contrast with its variable sensations and thoughts , is the basis ...
... effort itself , or act of will . 2. The idea of substance is derived from that which remains the same through all variations of ex- istence . 3. The indivisible self , in contrast with its variable sensations and thoughts , is the basis ...
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... effort to express himself ? and see how in music , the earliest of arts , God accommodates man , and aids him to extend the voice of his soul beyond that of his body , and how nice a structure must be called into play , when a skilful ...
... effort to express himself ? and see how in music , the earliest of arts , God accommodates man , and aids him to extend the voice of his soul beyond that of his body , and how nice a structure must be called into play , when a skilful ...
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... effort of the will , without a command , and as if instinct with the mind that employs it , this exquisite apparatus instantaneously takes the direction of a desire , and accommodates itself to the range of distance and the degree of ...
... effort of the will , without a command , and as if instinct with the mind that employs it , this exquisite apparatus instantaneously takes the direction of a desire , and accommodates itself to the range of distance and the degree of ...
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Page 237 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 430 - ... whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Page 237 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 430 - That man, I think, has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will, and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of; whose intellect is a clear, cold logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order; ready like a steam engine to be turned to any kind of work, and spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...
Page 251 - Remember thee? Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there; And. thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain, Unmix'd with baser matter: yes, by heaven.
Page 170 - In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed ; 16 Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction, 17 That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.
Page 42 - Os homini sublime dedit, — ccelumque tueri Jussit, — et erectos ad sidera — tollere vultus.
Page 80 - There was one of two ways to be adopted : either to go on to build up a language of signs on the basis of the natural language which she had already commenced herself, or to teach her the purely arbitrary language in common use: that is, to give her a sign for every individual thing, or to give her a knowledge of letters by...
Page 317 - And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Page 80 - The poor child had sat in mute amazement, and patiently imitated everything her teacher did ; but now the truth began to flash upon her ; her intellect began to work. She perceived that here was a way by which she could herself make up a sign of anything that was in her own mind, and show it to another mind ; and at once her countenance lighted up with a human expression.