Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of Truth: With Additions and Explanations to Adapt the Work to the Use of Schools and AcademiesCollins & Brother, 1859 - 284 sivua |
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acquired admit analogy apoplexy appear apply Archimedes argument arise ascer ascertained association attention believe Bicetre bodily calculated camera obscura character circumstances conception connected considered conviction correct course of nature cultivation degree disease distinct distinctly dreams effect entirely evidence example exer exercise existence experience external things facts fallacy feelings gentleman habit hallucination head ideas illustrate important impression individual influence inquiry insanity intellectual interest investigation JACOB ABBOTT ject JOHN ABERCROMBIE judgment kind knowledge lady manner memory ment mental process mentioned by Dr mind mode moral treatment MOUNT VERNON namely objects observation occurred particular peculiar perception persons phenomena philosophical Philosophy of Mind principle probability process of reasoning properties pupil racters recollection referred regard relations remarkable remembered sensation senses sophism statement syllogism testimony thought tion trace train of thought true truth uniform various viduals vision writing Yale College
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Sivu 281 - And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Sivu 134 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or...
Sivu 93 - The lady died a few days after, and the daughter grew up without any recollection of her mother, till she was of mature age. At this time, she happened to be taken into the room in which her mother died, without knowing it to have been so ; she started on entering it, and when a friend who was along with her asked the cause of her agitation, replied, " I have a distinct impressio'n of having been in this room before, and that a lady, who lay in that corner, and seemed very ill, leaned over me and...
Sivu 206 - ... remembered having conducted such a matter for his deceased father. The old gentleman could not at first bring the circumstance to his recollection, but on mention of the Portugal piece of gold, the whole returned upon his memory; he made an immediate search for the papers, and recovered them, — so that Mr. R d carried to Edinburgh the documents necessary to gain the cause which he was on the verge of losing.
Sivu 134 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Sivu 94 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Sivu 44 - It was not uncommon for us to direct our steps towards what we took to be a large mass of stone, at the distance of half a mile from us, but which we were able to take up in our hands after one minute's walk. This was more particularly the case, when ascending the brow of a hill...
Sivu 85 - in which the conversation turned on the civil war, what could be conceived more impertinent than for a person to ask abruptly, What was the value of a Roman denarius ? On a little reflection, however, I was easily able to trace the train of thought which suggested the question : for, the original subject of discourse naturally introduced the history of the king, and of the treachery of those who surrendered his person to his enemies ; this again introduced the treachery of Judas Iscariot, and the...
Sivu 259 - ... the darkening twilight of an autumn evening, in perusing one of the publications which professed to detail the habits and opinions of the distinguished individual who was now no more. As the reader had enjoyed the intimacy of the deceased to a considerable degree, he was deeply interested in the publication, which contained some particulars relating to himself and other friends. A visitor was sitting in the apartment, who was also engaged in reading.