Lectures on the Philosophy of the Mind, Volume 3William Tait, 1846 - 562 pages |
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... whole scene rises before us in combina- tion , when the tree , under which we hollowed out our seat , waves over the rock , from which we have leapt with a sort of fearful delight to the opposite over- hanging cliff , and the rivulet ...
... whole scene rises before us in combina- tion , when the tree , under which we hollowed out our seat , waves over the rock , from which we have leapt with a sort of fearful delight to the opposite over- hanging cliff , and the rivulet ...
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... whole is something more than all the parts which constitute the whole . The circumstance , which led to the distinction of reason from judgment , was perhaps , however , not the mere length and mutual connexion of the series , so much ...
... whole is something more than all the parts which constitute the whole . The circumstance , which led to the distinction of reason from judgment , was perhaps , however , not the mere length and mutual connexion of the series , so much ...
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... - formed all the separation which is necessary ; if we do not know what we are singling out , and do not even know that we are singling out any thing , the separate part of the complex whole may , indeed , 16 OF THE PHENOMENA.
... - formed all the separation which is necessary ; if we do not know what we are singling out , and do not even know that we are singling out any thing , the separate part of the complex whole may , indeed , 16 OF THE PHENOMENA.
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... whole , which we saw the very instant before , when conceived by us in this instant succession , is no longer , in every circumstance , the same complex whole . Some part , or rather many parts are lost al- together . A still greater ...
... whole , which we saw the very instant before , when conceived by us in this instant succession , is no longer , in every circumstance , the same complex whole . Some part , or rather many parts are lost al- together . A still greater ...
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... whole imagery of our thought , which has been ascribed to an associating or suggesting prin- ciple , should have been considered rather as the result of this power , in its never - ceasing operation . But , if we allow , that in ...
... whole imagery of our thought , which has been ascribed to an associating or suggesting prin- ciple , should have been considered rather as the result of this power , in its never - ceasing operation . But , if we allow , that in ...
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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.