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Side 92
... nor the sagacity with which he prosecuted his search for it , is more marked than his habitual recognition of the narrow limits of the human faculties , and his conviction that the chief and most difficult function of a philosopher ...
... nor the sagacity with which he prosecuted his search for it , is more marked than his habitual recognition of the narrow limits of the human faculties , and his conviction that the chief and most difficult function of a philosopher ...
Side 94
The very object , or at least the chief object , of this science is to teach us the extent of our faculties , and to develop and in- vigorate them by the robust discipline it imposes . To involve it in impossible speculation is to lose ...
The very object , or at least the chief object , of this science is to teach us the extent of our faculties , and to develop and in- vigorate them by the robust discipline it imposes . To involve it in impossible speculation is to lose ...
Side 96
It is this powerful tendency of the most vigorous minds to transcend the sphere of our faculties , which makes a " learned ignorance " the most difficult acquirement , perhaps , indeed , the consummation of knowledge .
It is this powerful tendency of the most vigorous minds to transcend the sphere of our faculties , which makes a " learned ignorance " the most difficult acquirement , perhaps , indeed , the consummation of knowledge .
Side 104
The , intellect absorbed to itself some of his other faculties ; so that they either appear shrunk like muscles not used , or they must have been originally feeble in comparison . To all the forms of the Beautiful , for example ...
The , intellect absorbed to itself some of his other faculties ; so that they either appear shrunk like muscles not used , or they must have been originally feeble in comparison . To all the forms of the Beautiful , for example ...
Side 128
These con- ditions are susceptible of an infinite variety of modifi- cations , according to the character of the faculty or faculties they are to awaken ; but still , of some kind and to some extent , they are by our present ...
These con- ditions are susceptible of an infinite variety of modifi- cations , according to the character of the faculty or faculties they are to awaken ; but still , of some kind and to some extent , they are by our present ...
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Side 277 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and in'tense study, (which I take to be my portion in this life,) joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die.
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Side 20 - Readings for a Month preparatory to Confirmation : Compiled from the Works of Writers of the Early and of the English Church. Fcp.
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Side 295 - Catholic England has been restored to its orbit in the ecclesiastical firmament, from which its light had long vanished, and begins now anew its course of regularly adjusted action round the centre of unity, the source of jurisdiction, of light and of vigour.
Side 93 - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind, or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists, or by what motions of our spirits, or alterations of our bodies, we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do, in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or no.
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| Titel | Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review: Supplementary vol Bind 3 af Essays, Selected from Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Henry Rogers |
| Forfatter | Henry Rogers |
| Udgiver | Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855 |
| Oprindeligt fra | Oxford University |
| Digitaliseret | 18. maj 2007 |
| Eksporter henvisning | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |