Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind: 1st-2d series1858 |
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affirm amongst assertion Berkeley Berkeley's theory causes ceive cerned character circumstances cognitions à priori colour connexion consequence constitution cranium discern distinct doctrine Dugald Stewart entities evidence existence explanation express external objects external world facts faculties feeling fictitious furnish George Combe Hamilton Hegel Human Mind indicate individual infer innate principles inquiry instance intellectual J. S. Mill Kant knowledge language Leibnitz letter maintained mankind meaning ment mental phenomena metaphysicians modes moral musical nature necessary notions observation organs of sense particular passage peculiar perceive perception percipient phenomena of consciousness philosophy philosophy of mind phrenology physical possess preceding precise present propositions punishment qualities question racter reason reference regard Reid Reid's relation remark resemblance rience says self-contradiction sensation Sir William Hamilton Sir Wm speculations term things tical tion truth uncon vibrations visual perception voluntary actions words writer
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Página 96 - And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing Boy, But He beholds the light, and whence it flows. He sees it in his joy...
Página 254 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — if ill, Why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am Thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.
Página 217 - Such are the accidents which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment; which is commonly called genius. The true genius is a mind of large general' powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Página 69 - Now if we will annex a meaning to our words, and speak only of what we can conceive, I believe we shall acknowledge, that an idea, which considered in itself is particular, becomes general, by being made to represent or stand for all other particular ideas of the same sort.
Página 127 - No proposition can be said to be in the mind, which it never yet knew, which it was never yet conscious of.
Página 254 - Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, But what is not '*. Ban, Look, how our partner's rapt.
Página 217 - Fairy Queen ; in which he very early took delight to read, till, by feeling the charms of verse, he became, as he relates, irrecoverably a poet. Such are the accidents, which, sometimes remembered, and perhaps sometimes forgotten, produce that particular designation of mind, and propensity for some certain science or employment, which is commonly called Genius.
Página 25 - Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations in their minds, which have no other existence but barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down and worship their own ideas ; but rather address their homage to that eternal invisible Mind which produces and sustains all things.
Página 15 - ... but its own proper modifications, and the various states of the sensorium, to which it is present: So that it is not the external sun and moon which are in the heavens, which our mind perceives, but only their image or representation impressed upon the sensorium. How the soul of a seeing man sees these images, or how it receives those ideas, from such agitations in the sensorium, I know not; but I am sure it can never perceive the external bodies themselves, to which it is not present.
Página 128 - ... know. Nay, thus truths may be imprinted on the mind which it never did, nor ever shall know; for a man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.