The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 20. köideLittle, Brown, 1886 |
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Page 36
... persons . The marshes on the banks of the Polist are nearly 1250 square miles in extent ; one in the neigh- bourhood of Lake Dviniye is 27 miles long and 17 broad , and another on the Toropa extends for 17 miles , while many elongated ...
... persons . The marshes on the banks of the Polist are nearly 1250 square miles in extent ; one in the neigh- bourhood of Lake Dviniye is 27 miles long and 17 broad , and another on the Toropa extends for 17 miles , while many elongated ...
Page 58
... persons suppose they can imagine a waxing or a waning sound or the gradual abatement of an intense pain ; but what really happens in such cases is probably not a rise and fall in the intensity of a single representa- tion , but a change ...
... persons suppose they can imagine a waxing or a waning sound or the gradual abatement of an intense pain ; but what really happens in such cases is probably not a rise and fall in the intensity of a single representa- tion , but a change ...
Page 61
... persons who lead uneventful lives , and still more in idiots , who can scarcely think at all . In actual fact ... person has an exceptional memory for sounds , another for colours , another for forms . Still it is in general true that ...
... persons who lead uneventful lives , and still more in idiots , who can scarcely think at all . In actual fact ... person has an exceptional memory for sounds , another for colours , another for forms . Still it is in general true that ...
Page 62
... persons seen in more seldom and then in similar attitudes and moods ; the former case a " generic image " has grown ... person partly like Jacob and partly like Esau . For there is no direct incompatibility between smooth and rough , so ...
... persons seen in more seldom and then in similar attitudes and moods ; the former case a " generic image " has grown ... person partly like Jacob and partly like Esau . For there is no direct incompatibility between smooth and rough , so ...
Page 70
... persons form of us and of our regard for them ; while , on the other hand , when we admire or despise , congratulate or pity another , we have always present to our mind a more or less definite conception of self in like circumstances ...
... persons form of us and of our regard for them ; while , on the other hand , when we admire or despise , congratulate or pity another , we have always present to our mind a more or less definite conception of self in like circumstances ...
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