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... objects , that the mind seems to expand , as if already shaking off its earthly fetters , and return- ing to its source ; and it is scarcely too much to say , that the de- light which it thus takes in things divine is an internal ...
... objects , that the mind seems to expand , as if already shaking off its earthly fetters , and return- ing to its source ; and it is scarcely too much to say , that the de- light which it thus takes in things divine is an internal ...
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... objects , to which it may apply itself , are indeed various , and , as such , give to the sci- ences their different names . But , though the objects vary , the observer and the instrument are continually the same . The limits of the ...
... objects , to which it may apply itself , are indeed various , and , as such , give to the sci- ences their different names . But , though the objects vary , the observer and the instrument are continually the same . The limits of the ...
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... objects of science , are only the occasions on which Astronomy and Chemistry arise in the mind of the inquirer , Man ... object indeed which affects the mind when sentient ; but it is the original susceptibility of the mind itself ...
... objects of science , are only the occasions on which Astronomy and Chemistry arise in the mind of the inquirer , Man ... object indeed which affects the mind when sentient ; but it is the original susceptibility of the mind itself ...
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... objects and powers in nature , which we are now capable of distinguishing , must we have remained in absolute ignorance ! But would this comparative ignorance of many objects be the only effect of such a change of the laws of mind , as ...
... objects and powers in nature , which we are now capable of distinguishing , must we have remained in absolute ignorance ! But would this comparative ignorance of many objects be the only effect of such a change of the laws of mind , as ...
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... objects , which it never could attain , because in truth they had no real existence , —to the neglect of objects that would have pro- duced the very advantage which was sought . I allude to the be- lief of the schools , in the separate ...
... objects , which it never could attain , because in truth they had no real existence , —to the neglect of objects that would have pro- duced the very advantage which was sought . I allude to the be- lief of the schools , in the separate ...
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Page 234 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness which is inseparable from thinking, and, as it seems to me, essential to it: it being impossible for any one to perceive without perceiving that he does perceive.
Page 316 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And...
Page 402 - To ask, at what TIME a man has first any ideas, is to ask, when he begins to perceive; — HAVING IDEAS, and PERCEPTION, being the same thing.
Page 190 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw : Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite : Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age : Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 467 - A ray of heavenly light, gilding all forms Terrestrial in the vast and the minute ; The unambiguous footsteps of the God, Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing, And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.
Page 438 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of GOD, as with a mantle, didst invest...
Page 36 - When we know our own strength, we shall the better know what to undertake with hopes of success; and when we have well surveyed the powers of our own minds, and made some estimate what we may expect from them, we shall not be inclined either to sit still, and not set our thoughts on work at all, in despair of knowing anything; nor on the other side, question everything, and disclaim all knowledge, because some things are not to be understood.
Page 42 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see : That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 86 - ... several sorts of bodies that fall under the examination of our senses perhaps we may have : but adequate ideas, I suspect, we have not of any one amongst them. And though the former of these will serve us for common use and discourse, yet whilst we want the latter, we are not capable of scientifical knowledge ; nor shall ever be able to discover general, instructive, unquestionable truths concerning them. Certainty and demonstration are things we must not, in these matters, pretend to.
Page 356 - When I deny sensible things an existence out of the mind, I do not mean my mind in particular, but all minds. Now it is plain they have an existence exterior to my mind, since I find them by experience to be independent of it.