Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Band 1Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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... knowledge " itself as it implies the results of experience and as it is distinct in meaning from " consciousness . " Professor Max Müller in his " Science of Thought " expresses the same idea by quoting : " We have but faith ; we cannot ...
... knowledge " itself as it implies the results of experience and as it is distinct in meaning from " consciousness . " Professor Max Müller in his " Science of Thought " expresses the same idea by quoting : " We have but faith ; we cannot ...
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... knowledge is merely to observe the facts and to trace what their relations or sequences are . This is to be accomplished only by a careful and extensive observa- tion of the facts as they pass before us , and by carefully distin ...
... knowledge is merely to observe the facts and to trace what their relations or sequences are . This is to be accomplished only by a careful and extensive observa- tion of the facts as they pass before us , and by carefully distin ...
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... knowledge of the fact that the one is invariably the antecedent of the other . Of the mysterious agency on which the connection depends , we know nothing , and never can know anything in our present state of being . We know that the ...
... knowledge of the fact that the one is invariably the antecedent of the other . Of the mysterious agency on which the connection depends , we know nothing , and never can know anything in our present state of being . We know that the ...
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... knowledge thus acquired , by bringing bodies into such circumstances as are calculated to lead to those actions upon each other of which we have ascertained them to be capable . Art , therefore , or the production of certain results by ...
... knowledge thus acquired , by bringing bodies into such circumstances as are calculated to lead to those actions upon each other of which we have ascertained them to be capable . Art , therefore , or the production of certain results by ...
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... knowledge , by producing , in the one case , actions upon the body which we wish to produce , and in the other , by counteracting or avoiding actions which we wish to prevent . In all these sciences , and the practical arts which are ...
... knowledge , by producing , in the one case , actions upon the body which we wish to produce , and in the other , by counteracting or avoiding actions which we wish to prevent . In all these sciences , and the practical arts which are ...
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Seite 231 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Seite 33 - For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another, VOL, VII.
Seite 232 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Seite 1 - We have but faith : we cannot know; For knowledge is of things we see ; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness : let it grow.
Seite 53 - I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life; and passing from one thought to another, surely, said I, man is but a shadow, and life a dream.
Seite 307 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Seite 56 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Seite 99 - As we stood before Busby's tomb, the Knight uttered himself again after the same manner, — "Dr. Busby — a great man ! he whipped my grandfather — a very great man...
Seite 43 - I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my heart more moved than with a trumpet...
Seite 334 - Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend: " Abeunt studia in mores" Nay, there is no stond nor impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies...