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... important principles is ascertained . But while it is exceedingly necessary that our youth should be made acquainted with these principles , it is impossible that they should through with all the complicated discussions which have been ...
... important principles is ascertained . But while it is exceedingly necessary that our youth should be made acquainted with these principles , it is impossible that they should through with all the complicated discussions which have been ...
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... important truths of the science , collected from such a variety of sources , and suitably ar- ranged and expressed , are laid before the student , in or- der that he may become acquainted with them . And this is what is attempted , to ...
... important truths of the science , collected from such a variety of sources , and suitably ar- ranged and expressed , are laid before the student , in or- der that he may become acquainted with them . And this is what is attempted , to ...
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... importance of the senses as a source of knowledge 18. Connexion of the brain with sensation and perception 19. Order in which the senses are to be considered 20. Of the sense and sensations of smell 21. Of perceptions of smell in ...
... importance of the senses as a source of knowledge 18. Connexion of the brain with sensation and perception 19. Order in which the senses are to be considered 20. Of the sense and sensations of smell 21. Of perceptions of smell in ...
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... importance of moral reasoning 191. Of the nature of moral certainty Page 201 202 203 204 • 205 206 193. Of reasoning by induction 192. Of reasoning from analogy 207 • 194. Of combined or accumulated arguments . 208 209 . 210 CHAPTER XII ...
... importance of moral reasoning 191. Of the nature of moral certainty Page 201 202 203 204 • 205 206 193. Of reasoning by induction 192. Of reasoning from analogy 207 • 194. Of combined or accumulated arguments . 208 209 . 210 CHAPTER XII ...
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... importance of moral education 434 436 437 ib . · 439 440 441 442 • 443 444 420. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles 421. Of the time when moral instruction ought to cominence 422. Of the discouragements attending ...
... importance of moral education 434 436 437 ib . · 439 440 441 442 • 443 444 420. The mind early occupied either with good or bad principles 421. Of the time when moral instruction ought to cominence 422. Of the discouragements attending ...
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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.