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... . Representation brings up certain objects which involve static or dynamic power , contemplation , or action , and these are projected into the future , as capable of reali- sation and as desirable . Thought and action follow to.
... . Representation brings up certain objects which involve static or dynamic power , contemplation , or action , and these are projected into the future , as capable of reali- sation and as desirable . Thought and action follow to.
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... objects intellectually appre- hended which are collateral and coeval . At subsequent times , then , the objects collateral are represented , and bring with them the feelings and volitions originally experienced . These objects , even ...
... objects intellectually appre- hended which are collateral and coeval . At subsequent times , then , the objects collateral are represented , and bring with them the feelings and volitions originally experienced . These objects , even ...
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... object only bring up its strongest associations , and then the same object again , so that it persists spite of our efforts . We have thus what has been called the Fixed Idea , ' which operates apparently in opposition to the law of ...
... object only bring up its strongest associations , and then the same object again , so that it persists spite of our efforts . We have thus what has been called the Fixed Idea , ' which operates apparently in opposition to the law of ...
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... objects of desire , making them more certain . In the increase of complexity , however , in the associations , vague and indefinite desires take their rise that are not capable of circumscription or satisfaction . Of the inherited ...
... objects of desire , making them more certain . In the increase of complexity , however , in the associations , vague and indefinite desires take their rise that are not capable of circumscription or satisfaction . Of the inherited ...
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... objects of desire which are new , but the newness is that of a new grouping of old materials . The higher and broader the education , the more numerous and the more refined become the objects of desire , and , consequently , the less ...
... objects of desire which are new , but the newness is that of a new grouping of old materials . The higher and broader the education , the more numerous and the more refined become the objects of desire , and , consequently , the less ...
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Page 313 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, " I have no pleasure in them...
Page 476 - Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 262 - First, our Senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them. And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 490 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 318 - Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green. Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 490 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 486 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved, shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 384 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...