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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... 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 inind intense and fixed in its position . 689. 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 inind intense and fixed in its position . 689. 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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