Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827 |
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... means of hostility , and , at the same time , a disposition to forbearance and accommodation . The practice of kissing the hand to a person at a distance , in token of courtesy and respect , seems to have been very general . Juvenal ...
... means of hostility , and , at the same time , a disposition to forbearance and accommodation . The practice of kissing the hand to a person at a distance , in token of courtesy and respect , seems to have been very general . Juvenal ...
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... means they also make them- " selves understood to those nations of Indians whose language " they are not acquainted with , for all the Indian nations * That of the American Philosophical Society , held at Philadelphia . See the first ...
... means they also make them- " selves understood to those nations of Indians whose language " they are not acquainted with , for all the Indian nations * That of the American Philosophical Society , held at Philadelphia . See the first ...
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... means obvious ) to accomplish this end , which necessity suggests to man even in his rudest state . The existence of an artificial language , consisting of visible signs , intelligible among all the Indian nations spread over the ...
... means obvious ) to accomplish this end , which necessity suggests to man even in his rudest state . The existence of an artificial language , consisting of visible signs , intelligible among all the Indian nations spread over the ...
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... means of an alphabet of visible signs , to express all their ideas and feelings ; as we see done by school - boys , who , for their amusement , denote the different letters by cer- tain conformations and movements of the fingers . Such ...
... means of an alphabet of visible signs , to express all their ideas and feelings ; as we see done by school - boys , who , for their amusement , denote the different letters by cer- tain conformations and movements of the fingers . Such ...
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... means I acquired the knowledge of that language , and a great facility in " speaking it ; it became more familiar to me than my mother tongue . I knew " the names of some things in Indian which I did not know in English ; even all " my ...
... means I acquired the knowledge of that language , and a great facility in " speaking it ; it became more familiar to me than my mother tongue . I knew " the names of some things in Indian which I did not know in English ; even all " my ...
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Página 213 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Página 213 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Página 239 - Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and such an Operation of the supreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres.
Página 54 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Página 208 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
Página 150 - Doctum imitatorem, et vivas hinc ducere voces. Interdum speciosa locis morataque recte Fabula, nullius veneris, sine pondere et arte, Valdius oblectat populum, meliusque moratur, Quam versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.
Página 173 - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Página 379 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after: so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Página 211 - En vérité, dit-elle, il faut un peu entre amis laisser « trotter les plumes comme elles veulent : la mienne a toujours
Página 54 - The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.