Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind, Volume 3William Tait, 1846 - 562 pages |
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... look in vain for a charm , which , if it be not beauty itself , is at least something still more tenderly delightful . The relation even of casual succession , then , by the connexion and grouping of events to which it gives rise , and ...
... look in vain for a charm , which , if it be not beauty itself , is at least something still more tenderly delightful . The relation even of casual succession , then , by the connexion and grouping of events to which it gives rise , and ...
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... look at a scene before us , so long as to have made every part of it familiar , if we close our eyes to think of it , in the very moment of bringing our eyelids together , some change of this kind has taken place . The complex whole ...
... look at a scene before us , so long as to have made every part of it familiar , if we close our eyes to think of it , in the very moment of bringing our eyelids together , some change of this kind has taken place . The complex whole ...
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... look at a swan and on snow , why should we be as- tonished that we have invented the word whiteness , to signify the common circumstance of resemblance ? Or why should we have recourse for this feeling of whiteness itself to any ...
... look at a swan and on snow , why should we be as- tonished that we have invented the word whiteness , to signify the common circumstance of resemblance ? Or why should we have recourse for this feeling of whiteness itself to any ...
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... looks to their divine author . We might perhaps , in like manner , have been so con- stituted with respect to our ... look for those tender regards which make our remembrances sacred ; for that love of truth and glory and mankind ...
... looks to their divine author . We might perhaps , in like manner , have been so con- stituted with respect to our ... look for those tender regards which make our remembrances sacred ; for that love of truth and glory and mankind ...
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... Look where he comes . In this embower'd alcove Stand close conceal'd , and see a statue move ; Lips busy , and eyes fix'd , foot falling slow , Arms hanging idly down , hands clasp'd below ! - That tongue is silent now ; that silent ...
... Look where he comes . In this embower'd alcove Stand close conceal'd , and see a statue move ; Lips busy , and eyes fix'd , foot falling slow , Arms hanging idly down , hands clasp'd below ! - That tongue is silent now ; that silent ...
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Popular passages
Page 540 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 210 - God loves from whole to parts ; but human soul Must rise from individual to the whole. Self-love but serves the virtuous mind to wake, As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake; The centre moved, a circle straight succeeds. Another still, and still another spreads : Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next ; and next all human race ; Wide and. more wide, th...
Page 339 - IX. 0 how canst thou renounce the boundless store Of charms which Nature to her votary yields! The warbling woodland, the resounding shore, The pomp of groves, and garniture of fields; All that the genial ray of morning gilds, And all that echoes to the song of even, All that the mountain's sheltering bosom shields, And all the dread magnificence of heaven, O how canst thou renounce, and hope to be forgiven ! X.
Page 239 - To purchase. Pure serenity apace Induces thought and contemplation still. By swift degrees the love of Nature works, And warms the bosom ; till at last, sublimed To rapture and enthusiastic heat, We feel the present Deity, and taste The joy of GOD to see a happy world...
Page 97 - A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, And greatly falling with a falling state. While Cato gives his little senate laws...
Page 165 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Page 200 - They are ultimately founded upon experience of what, in particular instances, our moral faculties, our natural sense of merit and propriety, approve, or disapprove of. We do not originally approve or condemn particular actions; because, upon examination, they appear to be agreeable or inconsistent with a certain general rule. The general rule, on the contrary, is formed, by finding from experience, that all actions of a certain kind, or circumstanced in a certain manner, are approved or disapproved...
Page 197 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.
Page 425 - Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor ; This year, a reservoir, to keep and spare ; The next, a fountain, spouting...
Page 37 - O'er all the soul his sacred influence breathes; Inflames imagination; through the breast Infuses every tenderness; and far Beyond dim earth exalts the swelling thought. Ten thousand thousand fleet ideas, such As never mingled with the vulgar dream, Crowd fast into the mind's creative eye.