Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 3Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827 - Logic |
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... ancients , the study of natural signs seems to have been cultivated with wonderful success . The pantomimes on the Roman stage carried the art to a perfection hardly cred- ible : and about which , I must own , I should be disposed to be ...
... ancients , the study of natural signs seems to have been cultivated with wonderful success . The pantomimes on the Roman stage carried the art to a perfection hardly cred- ible : and about which , I must own , I should be disposed to be ...
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... ancients , concerning the principles on which their art of physiognomy proceeded ; while we have complete evidence of the great success with which they cultivated the study . There is yet another class of signs which may be consider- ed ...
... ancients , concerning the principles on which their art of physiognomy proceeded ; while we have complete evidence of the great success with which they cultivated the study . There is yet another class of signs which may be consider- ed ...
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... dible . To the former class belong those signals by fire , which were so much in use among the ancients . The Greeks are even said to have invented a method of expressing , 22 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY -Of Artificial Language,
... dible . To the former class belong those signals by fire , which were so much in use among the ancients . The Greeks are even said to have invented a method of expressing , 22 [ chap . 1 . ELEMENTS OF THE PHILOSOPHY -Of Artificial Language,
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... ancient cases , are of all others , the most general , and ab- " stract , and metaphysical ; and , of consequence , would pro- " bably be the last invented . Ask any man of common acute- " ness , what relation is expressed by the ...
... ancient cases , are of all others , the most general , and ab- " stract , and metaphysical ; and , of consequence , would pro- " bably be the last invented . Ask any man of common acute- " ness , what relation is expressed by the ...
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... ancient languages ; particularly the variations in the terminations of the substantives , according to differences of gender and other circumstances ; and the em- ployment of cases , to express those varieties of relation , which in the ...
... ancient languages ; particularly the variations in the terminations of the substantives , according to differences of gender and other circumstances ; and the em- ployment of cases , to express those varieties of relation , which in the ...
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Page 213 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Page 213 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores.
Page 239 - Paper, it seems the immediate Direction of Providence, and such an Operation of the supreme Being, as that which determines all the Portions of Matter to their proper Centres.
Page 54 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Page 208 - In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, and frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar — if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick...
Page 150 - Doctum imitatorem, et vivas hinc ducere voces. Interdum speciosa locis morataque recte Fabula, nullius veneris, sine pondere et arte, Valdius oblectat populum, meliusque moratur, Quam versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.
Page 173 - I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands, be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Page 379 - When a body is once in motion, it moveth, unless something else hinder it, eternally; and whatsoever hindreth it, cannot in an instant, but in time, and by degrees, quite extinguish it; and as we see in the water, though the wind cease, the waves give not over rolling for a long time after: so also it happeneth in that motion, which is made in the internal parts of a man, then, when he sees, dreams, &c.
Page 211 - En vérité, dit-elle, il faut un peu entre amis laisser « trotter les plumes comme elles veulent : la mienne a toujours
Page 54 - The memory of some men, it is true, is very tenacious, even to a miracle ; but yet there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.