Abridgment of Mental Philosophy: Including the Three Departments of the Intellect, Sensibilities, and Will. Designed as a Text-book for Academies and High Schools |
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... CONCEPTIONS . 59 Meaning and characteristics of conceptions . 60. Of conceptions of objects of sight . 61. Of the influence of habit on our conceptions 62. Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63. Of the subserviency of our ...
... CONCEPTIONS . 59 Meaning and characteristics of conceptions . 60. Of conceptions of objects of sight . 61. Of the influence of habit on our conceptions 62. Influence of habit on conceptions of sight 63. Of the subserviency of our ...
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... CONCEPTIONS OR APPARITIONS • 216. Disordered intellectual action as connected with the body 217. Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218. Of the less permanent excited conceptions of sight 219. Of the less permament ...
... CONCEPTIONS OR APPARITIONS • 216. Disordered intellectual action as connected with the body 217. Of excited conceptions and of apparitions in general 218. Of the less permanent excited conceptions of sight 219. Of the less permament ...
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... conceptions . Attacks of fever 224. Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions . In- flammation of the brain Page 237 239 · 240 • 241 225. Facts having relation to the fourth cause of excited conceptions : 242 226. Fifth ...
... conceptions . Attacks of fever 224. Fourth cause of apparitions and other excited conceptions . In- flammation of the brain Page 237 239 · 240 • 241 225. Facts having relation to the fourth cause of excited conceptions : 242 226. Fifth ...
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... conceptions of its nurse and mother ; and the origin and history of all its notions may be traced to its animal wants , to the light that breaks in from its window , and to the few objects in the immediate neighbourhood of the cradle ...
... conceptions of its nurse and mother ; and the origin and history of all its notions may be traced to its animal wants , to the light that breaks in from its window , and to the few objects in the immediate neighbourhood of the cradle ...
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... conception . " When the parts of a body adhere so firmly that it cannot easily be made to change its figure , we call t hard ; when its parts are easily displaced , we call it soft . This is the notion which all mankind have of hard ...
... conception . " When the parts of a body adhere so firmly that it cannot easily be made to change its figure , we call t hard ; when its parts are easily displaced , we call it soft . This is the notion which all mankind have of hard ...
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