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... MIND . PART I. INTELLECTUAL STATES OF EXTERNAL ORIGIN . CHAPTER I. h .. ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL . 1. The mind susceptible of a threefold division 2. The Intellect susceptible of a subordinate division 3. Of the connexion of the mind ...
... MIND . PART I. INTELLECTUAL STATES OF EXTERNAL ORIGIN . CHAPTER I. h .. ORIGIN OF KNOWLEDGE IN GENERAL . 1. The mind susceptible of a threefold division 2. The Intellect susceptible of a subordinate division 3. Of the connexion of the mind ...
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... mind susceptible of a threefold division . THE Human Mind , regarded as a whole , is undoubted- ly to be considered as constituting a nature or existence which is truly , and in the strictest sense , one and indivis- ible . At the same ...
... mind susceptible of a threefold division . THE Human Mind , regarded as a whole , is undoubted- ly to be considered as constituting a nature or existence which is truly , and in the strictest sense , one and indivis- ible . At the same ...
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... mind were insulated and cut off from the outward and material world , or if there were no such outward world , we ... mind with the material world . As a general statement , the knowledge which is Exter- nal in its origin is acquired ...
... mind were insulated and cut off from the outward and material world , or if there were no such outward world , we ... mind with the material world . As a general statement , the knowledge which is Exter- nal in its origin is acquired ...
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... mind and the material world ; and , SECOND , that far the great- ' er portion of the mind's acts during that period can be traced to a material source . In proof of both positions , particularly the latter , we may properly attend to ...
... mind and the material world ; and , SECOND , that far the great- ' er portion of the mind's acts during that period can be traced to a material source . In proof of both positions , particularly the latter , we may properly attend to ...
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... mind in infants and children , without being led to believe , that the Creator has instituted a connexion between the mind and the material world , and that the greater portion of our early knowledge is from an outward source . To the ...
... mind in infants and children , without being led to believe , that the Creator has instituted a connexion between the mind and the material world , and that the greater portion of our early knowledge is from an outward source . To the ...
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Page 242 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee : I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Page 303 - The voice of the Lord is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the Lord is upon many waters.
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 182 - Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain. Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise ! * Each stamps its image as the other flies.
Page 310 - 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 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...
Page 162 - Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 108 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Page 227 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius ; but if we consult experience we shall find, that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.