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... never previously had those ideas which naturally come in by that sense . If a person has been born blind , the re- sult is the same ; or if , having the sense of sight , it has so happened that he has never seen any colours of a partic ...
... never previously had those ideas which naturally come in by that sense . If a person has been born blind , the re- sult is the same ; or if , having the sense of sight , it has so happened that he has never seen any colours of a partic ...
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... never become oper- ative . 8. Illustration from the case of James Mitchell . But this is not the only instance of this sort which in- genious men have noticed and recorded . In the Transac- tions of the Royal Society at Edinburgh ...
... never become oper- ative . 8. Illustration from the case of James Mitchell . But this is not the only instance of this sort which in- genious men have noticed and recorded . In the Transac- tions of the Royal Society at Edinburgh ...
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... never could have been made ; but , having been furnished with them by the beneficent Author of our being , we make this reference by experience . When we have seen the rose , when we have been near to it and handled it , we have ...
... never could have been made ; but , having been furnished with them by the beneficent Author of our being , we make this reference by experience . When we have seen the rose , when we have been near to it and handled it , we have ...
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... never made an object of thought , either by the vulgar or by philosophers ; nor has it a name in any language . There is no sensation more dis- tinct or more frequent ; yet it is never attended to , but passes through the mind ...
... never made an object of thought , either by the vulgar or by philosophers ; nor has it a name in any language . There is no sensation more dis- tinct or more frequent ; yet it is never attended to , but passes through the mind ...
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... never possessed sight , it would be many years before the most acute and active person could form an idea of a mountain or even of a large edifice . But by the additional help of the sense of seeing , he not only observes the figure of ...
... never possessed sight , it would be many years before the most acute and active person could form an idea of a mountain or even of a large edifice . But by the additional help of the sense of seeing , he not only observes the figure of ...
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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.