The Meaning of Words: Analysed Into Words and Unverbal Things, and Unverbal Things Classified Into Intellections, Sensations, and EmotionsD. Appleton and Company, 1862 - 250 páginas |
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... light on the subject , the following considerations may yield it : 4. Truth possesses often two aspects , one so gross that every person sees it , and the other so subtile that the acute pass it unnoticed . For instance , that a blind ...
... light on the subject , the following considerations may yield it : 4. Truth possesses often two aspects , one so gross that every person sees it , and the other so subtile that the acute pass it unnoticed . For instance , that a blind ...
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... light hair . The change of appearance produced in a man by death is often only an alteration of colours ; though the change renders difficult , in many cases , an identification of the body by former familiar acquaintances . The variety ...
... light hair . The change of appearance produced in a man by death is often only an alteration of colours ; though the change renders difficult , in many cases , an identification of the body by former familiar acquaintances . The variety ...
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... different therefrom , our intellect informs us that the sun is the cause of the light . Lawyers , whose profession is employed about unverbal differences rather than verbal homogeneities , are well versed in 54 THE MEANING OF WORDS .
... different therefrom , our intellect informs us that the sun is the cause of the light . Lawyers , whose profession is employed about unverbal differences rather than verbal homogeneities , are well versed in 54 THE MEANING OF WORDS .
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... light will issue during its consumption , than a thousand times a thousand millions times the number of sands the whole earth can contain . " Or , take what is daily taught in our schools , that light travels , or moves consecutively ...
... light will issue during its consumption , than a thousand times a thousand millions times the number of sands the whole earth can contain . " Or , take what is daily taught in our schools , that light travels , or moves consecutively ...
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... light with sensibly perceived consecutiveness . Of our proneness to such verbal equivokes , the following , which I extract from a highly valuable recent periodical publica- tion , is only a common example in its kind , though pecu ...
... light with sensibly perceived consecutiveness . Of our proneness to such verbal equivokes , the following , which I extract from a highly valuable recent periodical publica- tion , is only a common example in its kind , though pecu ...
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Página 202 - And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
Página 255 - The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
Página 132 - But another man, who never took the pains to observe the demonstration, hearing a mathematician, a man of credit, affirm the three angles of a triangle to be equal to two right ones, assents to it, ie receives it for true.
Página 173 - ... directions, and prevail equally during the time of high and low water. But the most remarkable circumstance is, the uniformity of the time of high and low water. During the year, whatever be the age or situation of the moon, the water is lowest at six in the morning, and the same hour in the evening, and highest at noon and midnight. This is so well established, that the time of night is marked by the ebbing and flowing of the tide ; and, in all the islands, the term for high water and for midnight...
Página 9 - Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee? Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, And say unto thee, Here we are?
Página 243 - ... earth. As to what weight and attraction are, we have nothing to do with that, for it is not a matter of knowledge at all. Theologians and metaphysicians may imagine and refine about such questions; but positive philosophy rejects them. When any attempt has been made to explain them, it has ended only in saying that attraction is universal weight, and that weight is terrestrial attraction ; that is, that the two orders of phenomena are identical; which is the point from which the question set...
Página 173 - Sea Islands, the tide is one of the most singular, and presents as great an exception to the theory of Sir Isaac Newton as is to be met with in any part of the world. The rising and falling of the waters of the ocean appear, if influenced at all, to be so in a very small degree only, by the moon. The height to which the water rises, varies but a few inches during the whole year, and at no time is it elevated more than a foot, or a foot and a half.