Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind, 1. köideS. T. Armstrong, 1826 |
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... seem effects of a natural instinctive law of hu- man thought - like the light , which we readily ascribe to the sun ... seems almost to be a part of the very atmosphere which we breathe . I am aware , that it is not to improvements in ...
... seem effects of a natural instinctive law of hu- man thought - like the light , which we readily ascribe to the sun ... seems almost to be a part of the very atmosphere which we breathe . I am aware , that it is not to improvements in ...
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... seems , was far from absurd , when taken in connexion with the scholastic philosophy . It was indeed the only mode ... seem hopeless and absurd , to found a system of phy- sical truths on the contemplation and comparison of universals ...
... seems , was far from absurd , when taken in connexion with the scholastic philosophy . It was indeed the only mode ... seem hopeless and absurd , to found a system of phy- sical truths on the contemplation and comparison of universals ...
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... seem to give to the particular science that is to engage us together , as with a view to those other sciences in ... seems , to us , to be broken down to the littleness of the objects which it has been habitually contemplating ; and ...
... seem to give to the particular science that is to engage us together , as with a view to those other sciences in ... seems , to us , to be broken down to the littleness of the objects which it has been habitually contemplating ; and ...
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... seems to surround him , as it were , without touch- ing him , how truly foreign it is to that existence , of which before it seemed to form a part . The feeling that he is but a man , in the true sense of that word , as a frail and ...
... seems to surround him , as it were , without touch- ing him , how truly foreign it is to that existence , of which before it seemed to form a part . The feeling that he is but a man , in the true sense of that word , as a frail and ...
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... seem to some being of another species , only one continuous and uniform mass ; as the masses , that seem to us uniform and continuous , may seem a whole world of separate and varied parts , to the insect population that swarms upon its ...
... seem to some being of another species , only one continuous and uniform mass ; as the masses , that seem to us uniform and continuous , may seem a whole world of separate and varied parts , to the insect population that swarms upon its ...
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Page 383 - 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 153 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Page 478 - 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 125 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite...
Page 108 - Go, wondrous creature! mount where Science guides, Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides; Instruct the planets in what orbs to run, Correct old Time, and regulate the sun; Go, soar with Plato to th...
Page 108 - Could he, whose rules the rapid comet bind, Describe or fix one movement of his mind? Who saw its fires here rise, and there descend, Explain his own beginning or his end?
Page 285 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 460 - However, many of the most learned and wise adhere to the new scheme of expressing themselves by things ; which hath only this inconvenience attending it, that if a man's business be very great, and of various kinds, he must be obliged in proportion to carry a greater bundle of things upon his back, unless he can afford one or two strong servants to attend him.
Page 354 - ... suscipit Anchises atque ordine singula pandit. 'principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentes lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus mens agitat molem, et magno se corpore miscet.
Page 304 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.