The London Quarterly Review, Volume 6Theodore Foster, 1812 |
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... present day , to explain how our dif- ferent mental operations are produced by means of vibrations , and other changes in the state of the sensorium ; but in truth , these speculations are exceedingly visionary , and at any rate it is ...
... present day , to explain how our dif- ferent mental operations are produced by means of vibrations , and other changes in the state of the sensorium ; but in truth , these speculations are exceedingly visionary , and at any rate it is ...
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... present thoughts which constitutes consciousness be of no avail to- wards this knowledge , without reflexion and comparison , it fol- lows that our knowledge must be in some proportion to the care and ability with which these difficult ...
... present thoughts which constitutes consciousness be of no avail to- wards this knowledge , without reflexion and comparison , it fol- lows that our knowledge must be in some proportion to the care and ability with which these difficult ...
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... present author . It is to those phi- losophers that we are indebted for the accurate developement of the nature of the process of abstraction , and the important pur- poses to which it is subservient . The truths which they have dis ...
... present author . It is to those phi- losophers that we are indebted for the accurate developement of the nature of the process of abstraction , and the important pur- poses to which it is subservient . The truths which they have dis ...
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... present , every moment , ' says Mr. Stewart , ' a ready field for the gratification of curiosity ; and , in those individu- als whose thoughts are strongly turned to the pursuit , they furnish mat- ter of habitual employment to the ...
... present , every moment , ' says Mr. Stewart , ' a ready field for the gratification of curiosity ; and , in those individu- als whose thoughts are strongly turned to the pursuit , they furnish mat- ter of habitual employment to the ...
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... present and the past serving only to enhance and to endear so unlooked - for an acquisition . What Gray has so fine- ly said of the pleasures of vicissitude , conveys but a faint image of what is experienced by the man who , after ...
... present and the past serving only to enhance and to endear so unlooked - for an acquisition . What Gray has so fine- ly said of the pleasures of vicissitude , conveys but a faint image of what is experienced by the man who , after ...
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