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... considered an ultimate state of volition , for it tends to nothing else , but is completed in itself , passing away when its purpose is accomplished . It is a pre- eminently characteristic state of passive power . § 32. When the ...
... considered an ultimate state of volition , for it tends to nothing else , but is completed in itself , passing away when its purpose is accomplished . It is a pre- eminently characteristic state of passive power . § 32. When the ...
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... considered action and so many pleasures lost thereby , that , when a course suggests itself , there springs up in opposition a motive to delay . Action being thus checked , the representation of those pains experienced which constitutes ...
... considered action and so many pleasures lost thereby , that , when a course suggests itself , there springs up in opposition a motive to delay . Action being thus checked , the representation of those pains experienced which constitutes ...
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... considered normal consciousness . Hence we will exclude them from our present consideration . ' DREAMS . § 4. The most common instance of extraordinary consciousness is found in dreams . Indeed , we can hardly call their production a ...
... considered normal consciousness . Hence we will exclude them from our present consideration . ' DREAMS . § 4. The most common instance of extraordinary consciousness is found in dreams . Indeed , we can hardly call their production a ...
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... considered as a product of an act of presentative knowing . Percepts are indefinitely divisible , that which is perceived at a given moment being a per- cept and there being no limit to the divisions of time . They are always to be ...
... considered as a product of an act of presentative knowing . Percepts are indefinitely divisible , that which is perceived at a given moment being a per- cept and there being no limit to the divisions of time . They are always to be ...
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... considered with reference to the number of attri- butes attached to it ; or its Intension ( or Comprehension ) . The concept man , in its extension , includes all individual men ; in its intension it takes in all the attributes which ...
... considered with reference to the number of attri- butes attached to it ; or its Intension ( or Comprehension ) . The concept man , in its extension , includes all individual men ; in its intension it takes in all the attributes which ...
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à priori abstract action æsthetic analytical proposition animal appetite argument associated attribute axiom cause character complete concept conclusion connection consciousness deduction definition degree delight desire dispositions distinction division effect emotions empirical laws enjoyment Epicurus equal evidence existence experience expressed fact faculty fallacies feeling force former generalisation greater happiness hence Hickok human idea ideal implies individual induction inference intension intuitive intuitive knowledge joys judgments knowledge latter means ment mental mind movement and exercise nature necessary truths necessity notion noumenon objects observation particular percepts philosophy pleasures and pains pleasures of society premisses present primary pleasures principal ends principles priori proposition racter Rational Psychology re-percepts reason redintegration reference regard repletion repose representation representative pleasures rience scientific sensation sense sexual social straight line summum bonum syllogism term things thought tion true uniformity universal vitality volition wealth Whewell whole words
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Page 217 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Page 218 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er, or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean, — This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with nature's charms, and see her stores unrolled.
Page 173 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemmed with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 169 - 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; 2.
Page 153 - 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...
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Page 165 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities ; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun ? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh : but the earth abideth forever.
Page 272 - 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 268 - 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.
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