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... composition of bodies ! What a subject of ridi- cule would the new nomenclature have afforded to an Alchemist ! " " The Philosophy of Mind has its Alchemists also ; — men whose studies are directed to the pursuit of one sin- gle ...
... composition of bodies ! What a subject of ridi- cule would the new nomenclature have afforded to an Alchemist ! " " The Philosophy of Mind has its Alchemists also ; — men whose studies are directed to the pursuit of one sin- gle ...
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... composition of forces , so apposite and so palpable , that it would have furnished Copernicus with a triumphant reply to the cavils of his adversaries against the motion of the earth . What an immense stock of scientific principles lie ...
... composition of forces , so apposite and so palpable , that it would have furnished Copernicus with a triumphant reply to the cavils of his adversaries against the motion of the earth . What an immense stock of scientific principles lie ...
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... composition was begun at a time when I had recourse to it occasionally as a ref- uge from other thoughts ; and has been carried on un- der circumstances , which , I doubt not , will incline those to whom they are known , to judge of the ...
... composition was begun at a time when I had recourse to it occasionally as a ref- uge from other thoughts ; and has been carried on un- der circumstances , which , I doubt not , will incline those to whom they are known , to judge of the ...
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... composition and of arrangement . It would be fortunate , in this re- spect , for his literary fame , if the same friendly and skilful hand which has illustrated and adorned his geo- logical researches , would undertake the task of ...
... composition and of arrangement . It would be fortunate , in this re- spect , for his literary fame , if the same friendly and skilful hand which has illustrated and adorned his geo- logical researches , would undertake the task of ...
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... composition , was the only means to avoid being lost in a chaos of notions , in- complete , incoherent , and indeterminate ; destitute of order , because suggested by accident ; and admitted among the materials of our knowledge without ...
... composition , was the only means to avoid being lost in a chaos of notions , in- complete , incoherent , and indeterminate ; destitute of order , because suggested by accident ; and admitted among the materials of our knowledge without ...
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Side 125 - 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 411 - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
Side 334 - 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 60 - ... about the ideas it has got ; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without ; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds ; which we, being conscious of, and observing in ourselves, do from these receive into our understandings as distinct ideas, as we do from bodies affecting our senses.
Side 313 - Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft outwatch the Bear...
Side 400 - IT is evident to any one who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge, that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses; or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind; or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Side 72 - It is true, indeed, that there is nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the sense, — except the intellect itself.
Side 275 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood; (Loose his beard and hoary hair Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air;) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre: 'Hark, how each giant oak and desert cave Sighs to the torrent's awful voice beneath!
Side 289 - 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 66 - 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.