Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind: In Two Parts, Volúmenes1-2Thomas Tegg, 1843 - 602 páginas |
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... considered in its Relation to some of the Fine Arts 316 III . Continuation of the same subject . - Relation of Imagination and of Taste to Genius 325 V.Continuation of the same Subject . - Inconveniences resulting from an ill ...
... considered in its Relation to some of the Fine Arts 316 III . Continuation of the same subject . - Relation of Imagination and of Taste to Genius 325 V.Continuation of the same Subject . - Inconveniences resulting from an ill ...
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... considered as an In- strument of thought • III . Continuation of the Subject . - Visionary Theories of some Logi- cians , occasioned by their inattention to the Essential Distinc- tion between Mathematics and other Sciences IV ...
... considered as an In- strument of thought • III . Continuation of the Subject . - Visionary Theories of some Logi- cians , occasioned by their inattention to the Essential Distinc- tion between Mathematics and other Sciences IV ...
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... considered an address , in the practice of it , ( or , as MARINUS calls it , a durauis àrahvizi ) as of much more value than an extensive acquaintance with the principles of the science . * Indeed , it is well known , to every one who ...
... considered an address , in the practice of it , ( or , as MARINUS calls it , a durauis àrahvizi ) as of much more value than an extensive acquaintance with the principles of the science . * Indeed , it is well known , to every one who ...
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... considered the connexion between impulse and motion , as a conjunction which we learn from experience only ; and not as a consequence deducible from the consideration of impulse , by any reasoning à priori . The passage is the more ...
... considered the connexion between impulse and motion , as a conjunction which we learn from experience only ; and not as a consequence deducible from the consideration of impulse , by any reasoning à priori . The passage is the more ...
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... considered as causes or effects , are contiguous ; and nothing can operate in a time or place , which is ever so little removed from those of its ex- istence . " " We may therefore , " he adds , " consider the relation of contiguity as ...
... considered as causes or effects , are contiguous ; and nothing can operate in a time or place , which is ever so little removed from those of its ex- istence . " " We may therefore , " he adds , " consider the relation of contiguity as ...
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Página 604 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 343 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature, who not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing ; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with heaven ; But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends ; thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief Of all his works : therefore the Omnipotent...
Página 54 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Página 185 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances.
Página 402 - I demonstrated the proposition of the abstract idea of a triangle. [And here it must be acknowledged that a man may consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the particular qualities of the angles, or relations of the sides. So far he may abstract; but this will never prove that he can frame an abstract, general, inconsistent idea of a triangle.
Página 327 - ... his chair and bed. A little calendar of small sticks were laid at the head. notched all over with the dismal days and nights he had passed there; he had one of these little sticks in his hand, and with a rusty nail he was etching another day of misery to add to the heap. As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down, — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction.
Página 57 - But this universal and primary opinion of all men is soon destroyed by the slightest philosophy which teaches us that nothing can ever be present to the mind but an image or perception...
Página 604 - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 343 - There wanted yet the master work, the end Of all yet done ; a creature who, not prone And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence 510 Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Página 144 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.