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... interest in it . Now hun- dreds and thousands of our sensations and perceptions are not remembered , because we take no interest in them . Of course they are the same , relatively to our amount of knowledge and our practice , as if they ...
... interest in it . Now hun- dreds and thousands of our sensations and perceptions are not remembered , because we take no interest in them . Of course they are the same , relatively to our amount of knowledge and our practice , as if they ...
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... interest which was wanting before . Then we delay upon , and mark , and remember , and interpret a multitude of evan- escent intimations which were formerly neglected . The senses thus acquire a very considerable relative power and ...
... interest which was wanting before . Then we delay upon , and mark , and remember , and interpret a multitude of evan- escent intimations which were formerly neglected . The senses thus acquire a very considerable relative power and ...
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... interest , which keeps the mind intense and fixed in its position . § 89. Of different degrees of attention . In agreement with this view of the subject , we often speak of attention as great or small , as existing in a very high or a ...
... interest , which keeps the mind intense and fixed in its position . § 89. Of different degrees of attention . In agreement with this view of the subject , we often speak of attention as great or small , as existing in a very high or a ...
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... interest may possibly do more ; but when the mind is led to deep investigations by these views merely , without finding something beauti- ful and attractive in the aspect of knowledge itself , it is likely to prove a tiresome process ...
... interest may possibly do more ; but when the mind is led to deep investigations by these views merely , without finding something beauti- ful and attractive in the aspect of knowledge itself , it is likely to prove a tiresome process ...
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... interest . It is undoubt- edly one reason of the attention , which the subject of our dreams has ever elicited among all classes of people , that they are so prevalent ; it being very difficult , if not im- possible , to find a person ...
... interest . It is undoubt- edly one reason of the attention , which the subject of our dreams has ever elicited among all classes of people , that they are so prevalent ; it being very difficult , if not im- possible , to find a person ...
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abstract ideas acquired antecedent apparent magnitude appear apply ascribed asso attention belief blind body called circumstances colour combined complex notion conceptions connexion consciousness consequence consideration considered constitution degree direct distinct dreams emotions ence eral exercise existence experience expressed external objects external origin fact give habit hearing Hence illustrated imagination instance intellectual internal James Mitchell jects Julius Cæsar knowledge Kubla Khan language Lavallette less means memory MENTAL PHILOSOPHY meration merely mind mon language moral reasoning nature ness notice occasion operations outward papillæ particular perceived persons philosophers possess present principle properties propositions Puiseaux qualities recollection reference relation relative suggestion remark remember resemblance respect retina rience Samuel Chilton sensations exhibit sense of touch separate sight smell sophism soul sound speak species supposed susceptible taste term things thoughts and feelings tion truth visual perception volition whole words
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Page 103 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 165 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 305 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
Page 308 - AND I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 358 - Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed : 'tis there alone His faculties, expanded in full bloom, Shine out; there only reach their proper use.
Page 312 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boiled, the morn From black to red began to turn," The imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety ; it sees all things in one, il piti nelV uno.
Page 414 - God, but the doers of the law shall be justified : for when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another ;) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
Page 390 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 189 - ... according to the deeds done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil...
Page 120 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...