Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind: In Two Parts, Volúmenes1-2Thomas Tegg, 1843 - 602 páginas |
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... less certain , than those in physics : but if our curiosity leads us to attempt an explanation of the association of ideas , by certain supposed vibrations , or other changes , in the state of the brain ; or to explain memory , by means ...
... less certain , than those in physics : but if our curiosity leads us to attempt an explanation of the association of ideas , by certain supposed vibrations , or other changes , in the state of the brain ; or to explain memory , by means ...
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... less mysterious than those of mind ; and we are apt to think that we have advanced one step in explaining the latter , when we can point out some analogy between them and the former . It is owing to the same circumstance , that we have ...
... less mysterious than those of mind ; and we are apt to think that we have advanced one step in explaining the latter , when we can point out some analogy between them and the former . It is owing to the same circumstance , that we have ...
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... less necessary for individ- uals , when they arrive at maturity , to form plans of improvement for themselves . But education never can be systematically directed to its proper objects , till we have obtained , not only an accurate ...
... less necessary for individ- uals , when they arrive at maturity , to form plans of improvement for themselves . But education never can be systematically directed to its proper objects , till we have obtained , not only an accurate ...
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... less striking and less extensive in their application , are nevertheless , to some particular classes of individuals , of the highest importance . Without pretending to exhaust the subject , I shall offer a few detached observations ...
... less striking and less extensive in their application , are nevertheless , to some particular classes of individuals , of the highest importance . Without pretending to exhaust the subject , I shall offer a few detached observations ...
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... less real , or more easily surmounted : on the contrary , it seems to require a still rarer combination of tal- ents to surmount them ; for how small is the number of individuals , who are qualified to think justly on metaphysical ...
... less real , or more easily surmounted : on the contrary , it seems to require a still rarer combination of tal- ents to surmount them ; for how small is the number of individuals , who are qualified to think justly on metaphysical ...
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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.