Elements of Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Two Departments of the Intellect and the Sensibilities, Volume 1W. Hyde, 1839 - Intellect |
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... observation . But happily man is not limited to the scanty knowledge , which would come in by these sources alone ; he can compare and com- bine , as well as perceive and experience ; and by means of the propositions thus combined and ...
... observation . But happily man is not limited to the scanty knowledge , which would come in by these sources alone ; he can compare and com- bine , as well as perceive and experience ; and by means of the propositions thus combined and ...
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... observing not only the events and appearances themselves , but their order in point of time , their succession . And it is led in this way to form the belief , ( not by deduction but from its own active nature , ) that every new ...
... observing not only the events and appearances themselves , but their order in point of time , their succession . And it is led in this way to form the belief , ( not by deduction but from its own active nature , ) that every new ...
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... observation of the presence , or of the absence of certain qualities . -Why do we call a piece of wood , or of iron ... observe the presence of these qualities , we there apply the term . The term IMMA- TERIAL , therefore , by the ...
... observation of the presence , or of the absence of certain qualities . -Why do we call a piece of wood , or of iron ... observe the presence of these qualities , we there apply the term . The term IMMA- TERIAL , therefore , by the ...
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... observations of it , may justly be character- ized as a slave . It does not turn to the right or left ; it does not do this or that , as it chooses ; it possesses no self - deter- mining and self - moving element ; but the subject of an ...
... observations of it , may justly be character- ized as a slave . It does not turn to the right or left ; it does not do this or that , as it chooses ; it possesses no self - deter- mining and self - moving element ; but the subject of an ...
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... observation . But it is to be particularly noticed , that the results are just such as might be expected from a mere connection of being ; and are evidently not such as might be anticipated from an identity of being . In the latter case ...
... observation . But it is to be particularly noticed , that the results are just such as might be expected from a mere connection of being ; and are evidently not such as might be anticipated from an identity of being . In the latter case ...
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Page 287 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 162 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Page 197 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 72 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 413 - The sooty films that play upon the bars Pendulous, and foreboding in the view Of superstition prophesying still Though still deceived, some stranger's near approach.
Page 327 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 220 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception * of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without...
Page 202 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 220 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Page 323 - So she went into the garden, to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple-pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. What, no soap?