A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Volumen1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 510 páginas |
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... mind . CHAP . II . Of the difference between the mind and the soul , ... 97 CHAP . III . Of the objects on which the mind acts , ..... 109 CHAP . IV . How the mind acts , ................ That all its operations may be reduced to the ...
... mind . CHAP . II . Of the difference between the mind and the soul , ... 97 CHAP . III . Of the objects on which the mind acts , ..... 109 CHAP . IV . How the mind acts , ................ That all its operations may be reduced to the ...
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... mind . That the difference between men , in respect of sensation , is entirely relative . CHAP . XIII . Of the different manner of receiving sensations , 165 CHAP . XIV . The small difference perceived between our sen- sations , has no ...
... mind . That the difference between men , in respect of sensation , is entirely relative . CHAP . XIII . Of the different manner of receiving sensations , 165 CHAP . XIV . The small difference perceived between our sen- sations , has no ...
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... mind : a truth easy to be proved by a series of other propositions . CHAP . XXIII . There is no truth not reducible to a fact , ... 228 That all simple facts are within the reach of persons of the most ordi- nary understanding ...
... mind : a truth easy to be proved by a series of other propositions . CHAP . XXIII . There is no truth not reducible to a fact , ... 228 That all simple facts are within the reach of persons of the most ordi- nary understanding ...
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... mind which they enjoy in an equal de- gree . But can those passions operate in all with equal force ? To this objection I reply , that such a passion , for example , as the love of glory , may operate as strongly upon the mind as that ...
... mind which they enjoy in an equal de- gree . But can those passions operate in all with equal force ? To this objection I reply , that such a passion , for example , as the love of glory , may operate as strongly upon the mind as that ...
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... mind , with their various operations ; in a word , of the obstacles to the progress of the sciences of mora- lity ... minds , and render them happy , we must know of what instructions and what happiness they are sus- ceptible . Previous ...
... mind , with their various operations ; in a word , of the obstacles to the progress of the sciences of mora- lity ... minds , and render them happy , we must know of what instructions and what happiness they are sus- ceptible . Previous ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action animals atheist attention become Brennus Catholic cause Caveirac chance CHAP character church citizens clear idea clergy consequently contrary crime Descartes desire despotic discoveries effect envy equal aptitude esteem excite fact faculty false favour fear force France genius glory greater or less greatest habit happiness heaven honours human ibid ideas of virtue ignorance illustrious indifferent inhabitants instruction interest intolerance Jansenist Jesuits judge judgment justice laws liberty love of power mankind manner Marshal Luxembourg matter memory ment metaphysics mind minister monks Montesquieu morality nations nature never NOTES ON SECTION objects observation opinion organisation Pagan pain passions perceive perfection persecuted philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch pope Portugal priests prince principles produce prove punishment regard religion render riches Rousseau sensations senses sentiment signification Sorbonne sort soul stupid superiority suppose Synesius talents theologians tion truth understanding virtuous vizirs Voltaire weak word
Pasajes populares
Página 287 - In Pope I cannot read a line, But with a sigh I wish it mine; When he can in one couplet fix More sense than I can do in six; It gives me such a jealous fit, I cry, "Pox take him and his wit!
Página 350 - Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain...
Página 95 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other ; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Página 151 - Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Página 215 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Página 373 - To limit the press is to insult the nation ; to prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
Página 96 - ... of a celestial origin. Minds that are stupid and incapable of science, are in the order of nature to be regarded as monsters and other extraordinary phenomena : minds of this sort are rare. Hence I conclude that there are great resources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish with their years. It is evident, therefore, that it is not of nature, but of our own negligence, we ought to complain.
Página 274 - Experience then proves that the character and spirit of a people change with the form of government ; and that a different government gives by-turns, to the same nation, a character noble or base, firm or fickle, courageous or cowardly.
Página 137 - ... the one quits the hut, and the other the den of his parents. The eagle, in like manner, drives away her young ones from the nest, the moment they have sufficient strength to dart upon their prey, and live without her aid. The bond that attaches children to their parents, and parents to their children, is less strong than is commonly imagined. A too great strength in this bond would be even fatal to societies. The...
Página 126 - Corporal sensibility is therefore the sole mover of man, [and] he is consequently susceptible . . . but of two sorts of pleasures and pains, the one are present bodily pains and pleasures, the other are the pains and pleasures of foresight or memory.