The System of Mental PhilosophyS.C. Griggs, 1885 - 285 páginas |
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absolute action affections affirmed appetites apprehend association attention beautiful brute cause ception CHAPTER character characteristics CHRONOLOGICAL ANTECEDENT circumstances classification conceive conceptions conscience consciousness consequence contemplation contingent defined degree denominated desire direct and immediate distinct and separate DISTRIBUTION OF TERMS Dugald Stewart emotions example exclusively exist external perception facts former function fundamental given idea of right ideal ideas of reason imagination impulse individual induced infinite intel intellectual intelligence intuitive judgment latter logical antecedents memory men are mortal ment mind moral moral character nature notions objects of thought ourselves Paradise Lost particular perceived perfect personal identity pertain philosophers possessed predicate present primary faculties principle propensities proposition qualities realities referred relations represented respect right and wrong sciousness sensations sense sensibility Sir William Hamilton SLANDER AND LIBEL space sphere sublime substance summum bonum suppose syllogism term tion true truth universal universal intelligence validity
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Página 157 - 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 147 - And he said unto him ; Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry and be glad, for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again ; and was lost, and is found.
Página 43 - Such knowledge is too wonderful for us : it is high, we cannot attain it.
Página 104 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Página 132 - 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 188 - in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the waters under the earth.
Página 205 - They take their rise from the body, and are common to us with the brutes. 2. They are not constant but occasional. 3. They are accompanied with an uneasy sensation, which is strong or weak in proportion to the strength or weakness of the appetite.
Página 27 - 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 naturally have do spring.
Página 159 - The grand problem, the solution of which forms, according to Plato, the final object and distinctive character of philosophy, is this: for all that exists conditionally (that is, the existence of which is inconceivable except under the condition of its dependency on some other as its antecedent) to find a ground that is unconditional and absolute, and thereby to reduce the aggregate of human knowledge to a system.