Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volum 2Eastburn, Kirk & Company, at the Literary Rooms, Corner of Wall and Nassau Streets, and Wells and Lilly, Boston, 1814 |
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... notions respecting the human mind , with any tolerable degree of distinctness . This scrupulous appropriation of terms , if it can be called an innovation , is the only one which I have attempted to introduce ; for in no instance have I ...
... notions respecting the human mind , with any tolerable degree of distinctness . This scrupulous appropriation of terms , if it can be called an innovation , is the only one which I have attempted to introduce ; for in no instance have I ...
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... notion of either the beautiful or the good . " The remark is undoubtedly true , and may be applied to all those systems which ascribe to reason the origin of our mo- ral ideas , if the expressions reason and discursive faculty be used ...
... notion of either the beautiful or the good . " The remark is undoubtedly true , and may be applied to all those systems which ascribe to reason the origin of our mo- ral ideas , if the expressions reason and discursive faculty be used ...
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... notion expressed by this term , as it is employed by our best writers , seems to presuppose the in- fluence of some principles , the consideration of which belongs to a different part of my work . In confirmation of this , it may be ...
... notion expressed by this term , as it is employed by our best writers , seems to presuppose the in- fluence of some principles , the consideration of which belongs to a different part of my work . In confirmation of this , it may be ...
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... notions , ( if I have been so fortunate as to succeed in this communication ) without departing from the established modes ot expres- sion . To the following observations of D'Alembert ( with some trifling verbal exceptions ) I give my ...
... notions , ( if I have been so fortunate as to succeed in this communication ) without departing from the established modes ot expres- sion . To the following observations of D'Alembert ( with some trifling verbal exceptions ) I give my ...
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... notions which are at once simple and just , appears , from its extreme rari- ty , to be much greater than is commonly imagined . Sound metaphysical principles are truths which every one is rea- dy to seize , but which few men have the ...
... notions which are at once simple and just , appears , from its extreme rari- ty , to be much greater than is commonly imagined . Sound metaphysical principles are truths which every one is rea- dy to seize , but which few men have the ...
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Side xi - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God Supreme, who made him chief Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent Eternal Father (for where is not he Present ?) thus to his Son audibly spake.
Side 436 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Side 449 - Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Side 280 - There are men whose powers operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking is past ; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled.
Side 348 - And although the arguing from Experiments and Observations by Induction be no Demonstration of general Conclusions; yet it is the best way of arguing which the Nature of Things admits of, and may be looked upon as so much the stronger, by how much the Induction is more general.
Side 376 - Have not the small particles of bodies certain powers, virtues, or forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the rays of light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the phenomena of nature?
Side 211 - He had another particularity, of which none of his friends ever ventured to ask an explanation. It appeared to me some superstitious habit, which he had contracted early, and from which he had never called upon his reason to disentangle him.
Side 211 - I have, upon innumerable occasions, observed him suddenly stop, and then seem to count his steps with a deep earnestness ; and when he had neglected or gone wrong in this sort of magical movement, I have seen him go back again, put himself in a proper posture to begin the ceremony, and, having gone through it, break from his abstraction, walk briskly on, and join his companion'.
Side 320 - And even we, while we have been endeavouring to represent all philosophical systems as mere inventions of the imagination, to connect together the otherwise disjointed and discordant phenomena of Nature, have insensibly been drawn in, to make use of language expressing the connecting principles of this one, as if they were the real chains which Nature makes use of to bind together her several operations.
Side 101 - By this imposition of names, some of larger, some of stricter signification, we turn the reckoning of the consequences of things imagined in the mind, into a reckoning of the consequences of appellations.