A Treatise on Man: His Intellectual Faculties and His Education, Nide 1Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1810 - 415 sivua |
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... faculty of comparing and combining . In fact , all the operations of his mind are necessarily reduced to the observing of the rela- tions which objects have to him , and among themselves . In the next section I shall examine what this ...
... faculty of comparing and combining . In fact , all the operations of his mind are necessarily reduced to the observing of the rela- tions which objects have to him , and among themselves . In the next section I shall examine what this ...
Sivu 76
... faculty which princi- " pally distinguishes the man from the brute . According to this " author , there are but three subjects worthy of consideration : “ nature , religion , and government . Now , as the French , says he , " dare not ...
... faculty which princi- " pally distinguishes the man from the brute . According to this " author , there are but three subjects worthy of consideration : “ nature , religion , and government . Now , as the French , says he , " dare not ...
Sivu 85
... faculty , and discover an insolent contempt of the party to whom they are offered . T. 31. ( p . 48. ) Why do the most part of sensible people regard all religions as incompatible with sound morality ? Because the priests of every ...
... faculty , and discover an insolent contempt of the party to whom they are offered . T. 31. ( p . 48. ) Why do the most part of sensible people regard all religions as incompatible with sound morality ? Because the priests of every ...
Sivu 96
... faculty " of discerning the ideas offered them , and that the greatest part " lose their time , and pains in endeavouring to conquer the innate " idleness of their minds . The greatest number , on the contrary , appear equally well ...
... faculty " of discerning the ideas offered them , and that the greatest part " lose their time , and pains in endeavouring to conquer the innate " idleness of their minds . The greatest number , on the contrary , appear equally well ...
Sivu 102
... faculty . The Greeks gave the name of Mnemosyne to the Mother of the Muscs , because , being attentive observers of man , they perceived that his judgment , wit , & c . were in great part the produce of his memory . * If a man be ...
... faculty . The Greeks gave the name of Mnemosyne to the Mother of the Muscs , because , being attentive observers of man , they perceived that his judgment , wit , & c . were in great part the produce of his memory . * If a man be ...
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Sivu 92 - The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy, have consequences very important, and of a long duration. It is with these first impressions, as with a river, whose waters we can easily turn, by different canals, in quite opposite courses, so that from the insensible direction the stream receives at its source, it takes different directions, and at last arrives at places far distant from each other; and with the same facility we may, I think, turn the minds of children to what...
Sivu 148 - Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.
Sivu 16 - What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more.
Sivu 93 - I conclude, that there are great re*' sources to be found in children, which are suffered to vanish " with their years It is evident therefore that it is not of nature, but of our negligence we ought to complain.
Sivu 26 - The discreet Corneille had remained a lawyer. Thus it is that the devotion of a mother, the death of Cromwell, deer-stealing, the exclamation of an old man, and the beauty of a woman, have given five illustrious characters to Europe.