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... frequent occasion to make use of the words Sensation and Perception . The term SENSATION is not of so general a nature as to include every variety of mental state , but is limited to such as answer to a particular description . It does ...
... frequent occasion to make use of the words Sensation and Perception . The term SENSATION is not of so general a nature as to include every variety of mental state , but is limited to such as answer to a particular description . It does ...
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... frequent repetition has been an astonishing quick- ness in the mental action ; so much so that the mind leaps outward with the rapidity of lightning , to be present with , and to comprehend the causes of the feeling within . This view ...
... frequent repetition has been an astonishing quick- ness in the mental action ; so much so that the mind leaps outward with the rapidity of lightning , to be present with , and to comprehend the causes of the feeling within . This view ...
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... frequent- ly find ourselves mistaken in these respects . If a man born deaf were suddenly made to hear , he would probably consider his first sensations of sound as D originating wholly within himself . But in process of time THE SENSE ...
... frequent- ly find ourselves mistaken in these respects . If a man born deaf were suddenly made to hear , he would probably consider his first sensations of sound as D originating wholly within himself . But in process of time THE SENSE ...
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... frequently they signify a quality in bod- ies , which , by the laws of nature , occasions the sensations of heat and cold in us ; a quality which , though con- nected by custom so closely with the sensation that we cannot without ...
... frequently they signify a quality in bod- ies , which , by the laws of nature , occasions the sensations of heat and cold in us ; a quality which , though con- nected by custom so closely with the sensation that we cannot without ...
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... frequently and more properly signi- fies this unknown something in the fire than the sensa- tion occasioned by it , he justly laughs at the philosopher who denies that there is any heat in the fire , and thinks that he speaks contrary ...
... frequently and more properly signi- fies this unknown something in the fire than the sensa- tion occasioned by it , he justly laughs at the philosopher who denies that there is any heat in the fire , and thinks that he speaks contrary ...
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Popular passages
Page 242 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 303 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 103 - 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 182 - 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 310 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno.
Page 120 - 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 162 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 108 - 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 227 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.