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... relative gravities are just as essential to the former , as the three angles are to the last mentioned . Any thing to be similar to any one of them has the ability to ex- cite the consciousness of the characteristics of the thing , and ...
... relative gravities are just as essential to the former , as the three angles are to the last mentioned . Any thing to be similar to any one of them has the ability to ex- cite the consciousness of the characteristics of the thing , and ...
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... relative to motion . The heaviness or lightness of any thing is known by the sensation of difficulty or ease which it produces in the muscle during the effort to lift it . In the auditory nerve of animals is excited the sensa- tion of ...
... relative to motion . The heaviness or lightness of any thing is known by the sensation of difficulty or ease which it produces in the muscle during the effort to lift it . In the auditory nerve of animals is excited the sensa- tion of ...
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... relative size , that the eye can be so deceived by the panoramic view , or even by a good picture . Some panoramas are so excellent , that one , on looking at them , can scarcely believe but that there is a widely extended view ...
... relative size , that the eye can be so deceived by the panoramic view , or even by a good picture . Some panoramas are so excellent , that one , on looking at them , can scarcely believe but that there is a widely extended view ...
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... relative to the original production of knowledge , will , after what has been laid down , appear to be simply this : -That all consciousness of external things is originally produced in the nervous system , by the action of those things ...
... relative to the original production of knowledge , will , after what has been laid down , appear to be simply this : -That all consciousness of external things is originally produced in the nervous system , by the action of those things ...
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... relative to the production of impulse is that it is excited by material or spiritual states , the former meaning the proportion of bodily constituents ; the latter , the knowledge excited associated and repro- duced by circumstances ...
... relative to the production of impulse is that it is excited by material or spiritual states , the former meaning the proportion of bodily constituents ; the latter , the knowledge excited associated and repro- duced by circumstances ...
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Page 206 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 197 - No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close ; As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets, The same look which she turned when he rose.
Page 118 - If it be for thy glory, I beseech thee give me some sign from heaven ; if not, I shall suppress it.
Page 99 - Like the darkened moon he retired, in the midst of the whistling blast.
Page 167 - Europe, have given up all accounts of witches and apparitions, as mere old wives' fables. I am sorry for it : and I willingly take this opportunity of entering my solemn protest against this violent compliment, which so many that believe the Bible pay to those who do not believe it.
Page 67 - Is ever wi' my Jean. I see her in the dewy flowers, I see her sweet and fair : I hear her in the tunefu...
Page 118 - Veritate, in my hand, and, kneeling on my knees, devoutly said these words, 0 thou eternal God, Author of the light which now shines upon me, and Giver of all inward illuminations, I do beseech thee, of thy infinite goodness, to pardon a greater request than a sinner ought to make; I am not satisfied enough whether I shall publish this book, De Veritate...
Page 94 - Is this a dagger, which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind; a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 206 - Though the qualities that affect our senses are, in the things themselves, so united and blended, that there is no separation, no distance between them; yet it is plain the ideas they produce in the mind enter by the senses simple and unmixed...
Page 94 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before.