Elements of the Philosophy of the Human MindWilliam Fessenden, 1813 - 509 páginas |
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... original organization , or by the operation of mor 、 al caufes , in very early infancy ; no fact can be more undeniable , than that there are important differences difcernible in the minds of children , previous to that period at which ...
... original organization , or by the operation of mor 、 al caufes , in very early infancy ; no fact can be more undeniable , than that there are important differences difcernible in the minds of children , previous to that period at which ...
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... original bias , than if his attention were dif- tracted by a more liberal courfe of ftudy . But wherever fuch men are to be found , they must be confidered , on the most favorable fuppofition , as having facrificed , to a certain degree ...
... original bias , than if his attention were dif- tracted by a more liberal courfe of ftudy . But wherever fuch men are to be found , they must be confidered , on the most favorable fuppofition , as having facrificed , to a certain degree ...
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... Original gen- ius " ( lays Voltaire ) " occurs but seldom in a nation " where the literary taste is formed . The number " of cultivated minds which there abound , like the " trees in a thick and flourishing foreft , prevent any fingle ...
... Original gen- ius " ( lays Voltaire ) " occurs but seldom in a nation " where the literary taste is formed . The number " of cultivated minds which there abound , like the " trees in a thick and flourishing foreft , prevent any fingle ...
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... original principles , which are com- mon to the whole fpecies ; and that , as error can only take a permanent hold of a candid mind by being grafted on truths , which it is unwilling or unable to eradicate ; even the influence , which ...
... original principles , which are com- mon to the whole fpecies ; and that , as error can only take a permanent hold of a candid mind by being grafted on truths , which it is unwilling or unable to eradicate ; even the influence , which ...
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... original and univerfal principles and laws of human nature , from the adventitious effects of local fituation . But if , in the cafe of an individ- ual , who has received an imperfect or erroneous ed- ucation , fuch a knowledge puts it ...
... original and univerfal principles and laws of human nature , from the adventitious effects of local fituation . But if , in the cafe of an individ- ual , who has received an imperfect or erroneous ed- ucation , fuch a knowledge puts it ...
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abfurd affociation of ideas againſt almoft appear arifes attention cafe caufes cauſe circumftances conclufions confequence confideration confidered conftitution courſe curiofity degree diftinct diſcoveries doctrine effect effential eſtabliſhed exerciſe exiftence exiſtence expreffed expreffion faculties fame fays feems fenfations fenfe fenfible fhall fhould fimilar firft firſt fituation fleep fociety fome fometimes fpecies fpeculations ftate ftill ftriking ftudy fubject fuch fufficient fuggefted fuppofe fuppofition furniſh fyftem habits happineſs himſelf human mind ical illuftrate imagination impoffible impreffions influence inftances inquiries intellectual intereft inveſtigation itſelf knowledge language laws lefs Lord Bacon meaſure memory metaphyfical moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary notions obfervations objects occafion opinions particular perceive perception perfon phenomena philofophers phyfical pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent principles procefs profe progrefs purpoſe purſuits queftion reafon recollect refpect refult remarks ſcience ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves theory theſe thing thofe thoſe thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe whofe words
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Página 117 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?
Página 475 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible, ie, form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Página 475 - Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting that dominion it takes itself to have over any part of the man, by employing it in, or withholding it from any particular action.
Página 471 - ... nothing but the capacity they are put into by the understanding of signifying or representing many particulars. For the signification they have is nothing but a relation that by the mind of man is added to them.
Página 425 - To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the od'rous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves. Her track, where'er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and generous Shame, Th' unconquerable Mind, and Freedom's holy flame.
Página 261 - I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war. Master Coleridge, like the former, was built far higher in learning, solid, but slow in his performances. CVL, with the English man-of-war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Página 425 - Where shaggy forms o'er ice-built mountains roam, The Muse has broke the twilight gloom To cheer the shivering native's dull abode. And oft, beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests laid, She deigns to hear the savage youth repeat, In loose numbers wildly sweet, Their feather-cinctured chiefs, and dusky loves.
Página 71 - That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
Página 464 - Habits, especially such as are begun very early, come at last to produce actions in us which often escape our observation. How frequently do we in a day cover our eyes with our eye-lids, without perceiving that we are at all in the dark! Men, that by custom have got the use of a by-word, do almost in every sentence pronounce sounds which, though taken notice of by others, they themselves neither hear nor observe. And therefore it is not so strange that our mind should often change the idea of its...
Página 253 - Heavens ! how unlike their Belgic sires of old! Rough, poor, content, ungovernably bold ; War in each breast and freedom on each brow ; How much unlike the sons of Britain now ! Fired at the sound, my genius spreads her wing, And flies where Britain courts the western spring ; Where lawns extend that scorn Arcadian pride, And brighter streams than famed Hydaspes glide.