Philosophical EssaysAnthony Finley, 1811 - 580 Seiten |
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... seems to be regulated by laws perfectly analogous to those which we trace among the phenomena of the material system ; and as , in all our philosophical inquiries ( to whatever subject they may relate ) the progress of the mind is ...
... seems to be regulated by laws perfectly analogous to those which we trace among the phenomena of the material system ; and as , in all our philosophical inquiries ( to whatever subject they may relate ) the progress of the mind is ...
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... seems to me to be that which is most agreeable to present use , and consequently the most likely to present itself to the generality of my readers ; guarding them , at the same time , as far as possible , against con- founding the two ...
... seems to me to be that which is most agreeable to present use , and consequently the most likely to present itself to the generality of my readers ; guarding them , at the same time , as far as possible , against con- founding the two ...
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... seems " perfectly agreeable to the nature of things . " Mr. Smith afterwards observes , " that as the human mind , in what- " ever its essence may be supposed to consist , is a part , " of the great system of the universe , and a part ...
... seems " perfectly agreeable to the nature of things . " Mr. Smith afterwards observes , " that as the human mind , in what- " ever its essence may be supposed to consist , is a part , " of the great system of the universe , and a part ...
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... seems to imply a hypothesis concerning the nature or essence of the sentient or thinking principle , altogether unconnected with our conclusions concerning its phenomena and their general laws . For the same reason , I am disposed to ...
... seems to imply a hypothesis concerning the nature or essence of the sentient or thinking principle , altogether unconnected with our conclusions concerning its phenomena and their general laws . For the same reason , I am disposed to ...
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... seems to have expected from the progress of these in- quiries , appears to be centered in the enlargement of " man's dominion over the material universe which he " inhabits . To the mere observer , therefore , his laws of ...
... seems to have expected from the progress of these in- quiries , appears to be centered in the enlargement of " man's dominion over the material universe which he " inhabits . To the mere observer , therefore , his laws of ...
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Seite 152 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Seite 336 - Awake, /Eolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take ; The laughing flowers, that round them blow, Drink life and fragrance as they flow. Now the rich stream of music winds along, Deep, majestic, smooth, and strong, Through verdant vales, and Ceres...
Seite 373 - The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line...
Seite 103 - But that all his arguments, though otherwise intended, are in reality merely sceptical, appears from this, that they admit of no answer, and produce no conviction. Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement and irresolution and confusion which is the result of scepticism.
Seite 306 - See what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New lighted on a heaven-kissing hill...
Seite 352 - And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it.
Seite 306 - She then thought .of that expression — it is a pleasant thing for the eyes to behold the sun — which words then seemed to her to be very applicable to Jesus Christ.
Seite 80 - Light and colours, heat and cold, extension and figures, in a word the things we see and feel, what are they but so many sensations, notions, ideas or impressions on the sense ; and is it possible to separate, even in thought, any of these from perception ? For my part I might as easily divide a thing from itself.
Seite 77 - For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without : [would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there,] and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Seite 71 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.