Philosophical EssaysAnthony Finley, 1811 - 580 sider |
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... circumstances which disturb the bodily mechanism . The philosophical inference , however , from this concession is , not that the hypothesis of Dr. Hartley , or the hypothesis of Mr. Belsham must necessarily be true ; but that , laying ...
... circumstances which disturb the bodily mechanism . The philosophical inference , however , from this concession is , not that the hypothesis of Dr. Hartley , or the hypothesis of Mr. Belsham must necessarily be true ; but that , laying ...
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... circumstance which peculiarly characterizes the inductive Science of the Mind is , that it professes to abstain from all speculations concerning its nature and essence ; confining the attention entirely to phenomena , which every ...
... circumstance which peculiarly characterizes the inductive Science of the Mind is , that it professes to abstain from all speculations concerning its nature and essence ; confining the attention entirely to phenomena , which every ...
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... circumstances which have probably contributed not a little to the popularity of his book , among a very numerous class of inquirers . For my own part , notwithstanding the ridicule to which may expose myself , by the timidity of my ...
... circumstances which have probably contributed not a little to the popularity of his book , among a very numerous class of inquirers . For my own part , notwithstanding the ridicule to which may expose myself , by the timidity of my ...
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... circumstance not a little remarkable , that the Philosophy of the Mind , although in later times con- sidered as a subject of purely metaphysical research , was classed among the branches of physical science , in the ancient enumeration ...
... circumstance not a little remarkable , that the Philosophy of the Mind , although in later times con- sidered as a subject of purely metaphysical research , was classed among the branches of physical science , in the ancient enumeration ...
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... circumstances quite unconnected with any specific difference between the knowledge acquired by observa- tion and by experiment . Indeed , in the case of the physical agents first mentioned , it may be fairly questioned , which of these ...
... circumstances quite unconnected with any specific difference between the knowledge acquired by observa- tion and by experiment . Indeed , in the case of the physical agents first mentioned , it may be fairly questioned , which of these ...
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agreeable altogether analogous appear applied argument Aristippus Aristotle asso association attention beauty Berkeleian Berkeley Burke cerning chiefly Cicero circumstances colours common conceived concerning conclusions Condillac connected consciousness consequence considered criticism doctrine effect employed epithet Essay existence experience expression external faculties fancy farther feelings former genius habits human mind Hume ideal theory ideas idées illustration imagination impressions Inductive philosophy innate ideas instances intellectual jects judgment knowledge language literal Locke Locke's Longinus Malebranche material matter means metaphorical metaphysical moral nature notions Novum Organum objects observation occasion opinion origin passage peculiar perception phenomena philosophical Philosophy of Mind phrase physical Picturesque Plato pleasure poet present primary qualities principles produced quæ qualities readers reason Reid Reid's remark respect seems sensation sense sensibility shew speak species speculations sublime supposed taste theory thing thought tical tion truth various word writers
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Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.