Inquiries Concerning the Intellectual Powers, and the Investigation of TruthRobert B. Collins, 1851 - 284 trang |
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acquired analogous apoplexy appear apply Archimedes argument arise association attention believe Bicetre bodily brain camera obscura cause character circumstances common conception connected considered conviction 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 Henry IV ideas illustrated important impression individual influence inquiry insanity instances intellectual interest JACOB ABBOTT ject judgment kind knowledge lady manner memory ment mental process mentioned by Dr mind mode moral moral treatment namely Nominalists notion 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 sound statement substances syllogism testimony thought tion trace train of thought true truth uniform various viduals vision writing Yale College
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Trang 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...
Trang 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...
Trang 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.
Trang 101 - When they expressed their astonishment, he told them that as he lay in bed, all visible objects shut out, the pictures of what he had seen in the East continually floated before his mind's eye, so that it was no wonder he could speak of them as if he had seen them yesterday. With like vividness...
Trang 200 - Street. At this time, he was roused by his wife, who awoke in a fright in consequence of a similar dream, connected with much noise and the landing of an enemy, and concluding with the death of a particular friend of her husband, who had served with him as a volunteer during the late war.
Trang 136 - Nearly connected with the former, but still more ex tensive, is that important process by which, among a great series of facts, we trace an accordance, and thus deduce from the whole a general fact or general principle. 4. Relations of composition ; comprehending the resolution of a substance into its elements or constituent parts, — the connection of the parts as constituting a whole — of the whole to the parts, and of the parts to each other. 5. Relations of causation, or the tendencies of...
Trang 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...
Trang 21 - A distinguished theatrical performer, in consequence of the sudden illness of another actor, had occasion to prepare himself, on very short notice, for a part which was entirely new to him ; and the part was long and rather difficult. He acquired it in a very short time, and went through it with perfect accuracy, but immediately after the performance forgot every word of it.
Trang 40 - When the girls were sorting a set of knots, he would demonstrate to them that all the ribands were of the same colour; or rather, says Jack, of no colour at all. My Lady Lizard herself, though she was not a little pleased with her son's improvements, was one day almost angry with him ; for having accidentally burnt her fingers as she was lighting the lamp for her tea-pot, in the midst...
Trang 32 - Dr. Abercrombie, in contending ' that everything mental ceases to exist after death, when we know that everything corporeal continues to exist, is a gratuitous assumption contrary to every rule of philosophical inquiry,' — feels compelled, by his reasoning, to admit the probability of a future life even to the lower animals.