Elements of Mental Philosophy, Volum 1

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S. Colman., 1831 - 480 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 243 - the other sensation, so I call this Reflection ; the ideas it affords being such only as the mind gets by reflecting on its own operations within itself." It is perhaps necessary to remark here, that we introduce this passage from Mr. Locke, merely in
Pàgina 75 - manuscripts ;—but to dive into the depths of dungeons ; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries."—This figure of
Pàgina 75 - guage and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt, to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and compare and collate the distresses of all men in all
Pàgina 280 - such as the following; Things equal to the same are equal to one another ; If equals be added to equals, the wholes are equal; The whole is greater than a part; Things, which are double of the same, are equal to one another ; Things, which are halves
Pàgina 183 - daughters, and standing with his old head bared to the pelting tempest! " Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire are my daughters, " I tax not you, ye elements, with unkindneaa ;
Pàgina 115 - Of the natural kind, The whole is greater than a part ; Whatever is, is ; It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time and in the same sense.—(2) Of the moral kind, Parents must be honoured ; Injury must not be done ; Contracts should be fulfilled,
Pàgina 228 - they represented solid bodies, when to that time he considered them only as party-coloured planes, or surfaces diversified with variety of paint ; but even then he was no less surprized, expecting the pictures would feel like the things they represented, and was amazed when he found those parts, which by
Pàgina 59 - I must desire him to consider, that, if all be a dream, then he doth but dream that he makes the question ; and so it is not much matter that a waking man should answer him. But yet, if he pleases, he may dream that I make him this answer, that the certainty of things existing in rerum
Pàgina 73 - remarking, that the following comparison is introduced in Akenside's Pleasures of the Imagination. " Mark the sable woods, "That shade sublime yon mountain's nodding brow ; " With what religious awe the solemn scene " Commands your steps! As if the reverend form
Pàgina 228 - Though we say of this gentleman that he was blind, as we do of all people who have ripe cataracts, yet they are never so blind from that cause but that they can discern day from night, and for the most part, in a strong light, distinguish black, white, and

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