A System of Intellectual PhilosophySaxton & Miles, 1845 - 330 páginas |
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... Ground of the Mistake of Philosophers in respect to the Laws of Associ- ation - Action of the associating Principle in different Individu- als - Influence of Habit - Standards of Taste and Fashion - Vi- cissitudes in respect to such ...
... Ground of the Mistake of Philosophers in respect to the Laws of Associ- ation - Action of the associating Principle in different Individu- als - Influence of Habit - Standards of Taste and Fashion - Vi- cissitudes in respect to such ...
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... Ground of these Peculiarities .... CHAPTER XIX . .249 THE INTELLIGENCE OF MAN , AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THAT OF THE BRUTE . Brute Instincts classified - Manifestations of Instinctive Intelli- gence - Principle on which the Argument is ...
... Ground of these Peculiarities .... CHAPTER XIX . .249 THE INTELLIGENCE OF MAN , AS DISTINGUISHED FROM THAT OF THE BRUTE . Brute Instincts classified - Manifestations of Instinctive Intelli- gence - Principle on which the Argument is ...
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... grounds of human re- sponsibility . What is to be expected from such Investigations . We The field before us is of almost boundless extent . are not , therefore , to expect that any one treatise will pre- sent all that may be known of ...
... grounds of human re- sponsibility . What is to be expected from such Investigations . We The field before us is of almost boundless extent . are not , therefore , to expect that any one treatise will pre- sent all that may be known of ...
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... grounds of Moral Obligation . This completes the circle of investigations in the wide domain of Mental Science . Much will be done for Philosophy , if this circle is completed . according to the method above developed . The above the ...
... grounds of Moral Obligation . This completes the circle of investigations in the wide domain of Mental Science . Much will be done for Philosophy , if this circle is completed . according to the method above developed . The above the ...
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... ground of our assent to the Divine au- thority of Christianity , so far as external evidence is con- cerned . A ... grounds of moral obligation will lead us to perceive distinctly , and to feel deeply , our obligation to obey the moral ...
... ground of our assent to the Divine au- thority of Christianity , so far as external evidence is con- cerned . A ... grounds of moral obligation will lead us to perceive distinctly , and to feel deeply , our obligation to obey the moral ...
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absolute cause action admitted affirmed antece Association assumption beautiful blended brute characteristics chronological antecedents circumstances Coleridge common conceive conception conclusions condition conformity consequence consideration contemplated contingent conviction demonstration developed distinct distinguished Divine Dugald Stewart elements event example exclusively existence experience external fact faculty feelings Fichte finite former function fundamental give given ground harmony Hegel ideas of Reason Imagination important individual Infinite and Perfect inquiries instance Intel intellectual Intelligence Intelligence gives intuitions judgments Kant knowledge laws laws of thought logical antecedents mental Mental Philosophy mind moral Natural Theology nature nomena notions object obligation ourselves Pantheism Paradise Lost particular perceived perception personal identity pertaining phenomena philosopher powers present principles proposition qualities question reality reference reflection relation remarks respect spontaneous sublime substance suppose syllogism term theology theory things thought tion true truth uncon unconditioned and absolute Understanding Understanding-conceptions universal universal Intelligence validity
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Página 181 - A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the whole as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part.
Página 219 - Whence has it all the MATERIALS of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE. In that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the MATERIALS of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can...
Página 141 - His very word of grace is strong As that which built the skies ; The voice that rolls the stars along Speaks all the promises.
Página 128 - Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain torrents ; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven, received Into the bosom of the steady lake.
Página 102 - On the proud crest of Satan, that no sight, Nor motion of swift thought, less could his shield, Such ruin intercept : ten paces huge He back recoil'd ; the tenth on bended knee His massy spear upstay'd ; as if, on earth, Winds under ground, or waters forcing way, Sidelong, had push'da mountain from his seat, Half sunk with all his pines.
Página 136 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Página 127 - Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him ; and they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call, with quivering peals, And long halloos, and screams, and echoes loud Redoubled and redoubled ; concourse wild Of mirth and jocund din...
Página 131 - By policy and long process' of time, In emulation opposite to Heaven. Which when Beelzebub perceived — than whom, Satan except, none higher sat — with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shon, Majestic, though in ruin.
Página 131 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Página 302 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?