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... faculty dreaming of a lessening and lessening mathe- matical point , the end of his mind sharpened away to nothing . What happens ? Any sensation that appeals is met by this bril- liant attention , and relieves its diamond glare ; being ...
... faculty dreaming of a lessening and lessening mathe- matical point , the end of his mind sharpened away to nothing . What happens ? Any sensation that appeals is met by this bril- liant attention , and relieves its diamond glare ; being ...
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... faculty which has been noticed by Cuvier , Jerdon , Thompson , Bennet , Houzeau , Bechstein , Lindsay and Darwin.'s Adaptation to circumstances , amenability to educating influences in birds , indicates a high degree of intellectual and ...
... faculty which has been noticed by Cuvier , Jerdon , Thompson , Bennet , Houzeau , Bechstein , Lindsay and Darwin.'s Adaptation to circumstances , amenability to educating influences in birds , indicates a high degree of intellectual and ...
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... faculty.'4 Chastisement is frequently inflicted on the young . " ( Dogs and cats also maintain discipline among their progeny . ) There are many proofs of monkeys acting in co - opera- tion . Vanity is apparent . Much the most striking ...
... faculty.'4 Chastisement is frequently inflicted on the young . " ( Dogs and cats also maintain discipline among their progeny . ) There are many proofs of monkeys acting in co - opera- tion . Vanity is apparent . Much the most striking ...
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... faculty or power which looks upon entities superior to sense , as the eye looks upon the landscape before it . This power or faculty has been designated in various ways . In Sir William Hamilton's catalogue , it is termed Reason ( Ratio ...
... faculty or power which looks upon entities superior to sense , as the eye looks upon the landscape before it . This power or faculty has been designated in various ways . In Sir William Hamilton's catalogue , it is termed Reason ( Ratio ...
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... faculty for knowing funda- mental truth wholly apart from processes of observation and generalisation . Particularly must this be asserted of Reid and the Scottish school . The term Common Sense proves as fruitful a source of error and ...
... faculty for knowing funda- mental truth wholly apart from processes of observation and generalisation . Particularly must this be asserted of Reid and the Scottish school . The term Common Sense proves as fruitful a source of error and ...
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Page 262 - Secondly, the other fountain, from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed 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...
Page 313 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Page 351 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Page 261 - 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.
Page 400 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, — This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled.
Page 445 - The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. There is no armour against fate ; Death lays his icy hand on kings : Sceptre and crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. 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
Page 313 - Also when they shall be afraid of that -which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets...