An Ethical Treatise on the Passions, Founded on the Principles Investigated in the Philosophical Treatise

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Hazard, 1807 - 495 pagina's
 

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Pagina 452 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks: I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking; and I could not avoid frequently using it.
Pagina 486 - I am affrighted and confounded with that forlorn solitude in which I am placed by my philosophy.
Pagina 487 - Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Pagina 458 - ... the idea of sound! A sufficient impulse there may be on the organ; but it not reaching the observation of the mind, there follows no perception: and though the motion that uses to produce the idea of sound be made in the ear, yet no sound is heard.
Pagina 483 - Car la physique explique en quelque manière le mécanisme des sens et la formation des idées ; mais dans la puissance de vouloir ou plutôt de choisir, et dans le sentiment de cette puissance, on ne trouve que des actes purement spirituels, dont on n'explique rien par les lois de la mécanique.
Pagina 461 - The external senses have a double province; to make us feel, and to make us perceive. They furnish us with a variety of sensations, some pleasant, others painful, and others indifferent; at the same time they give us a conception, and an invincible belief of the existence of external objects.
Pagina 484 - Il serait triste pour nous d'être forcés de convenir que cette faculté distinctive et presque illimitée est la source de tous les malheurs de l'homme ; que c'est elle qui le tire à force de temps de cette condition originaire dans laquelle il...
Pagina 15 - HAPPINESS. — Well being and happiness are not an inheritance of which: we take possession from the hour of our birth, and which we are destined to enjoy at our ease ; they are to be searched after with unwearied assiduity. We enter into life destitute of everything hut simple existence. All that we...
Pagina 457 - ... it is the first faculty of the mind exercised about our ideas, so it is the first and simplest idea we have from reflection, and is by some called " thinking
Pagina 463 - BY Conception, I mean that power of the mind, which enables it to form a notion of an absent object of perception, or of a sensation which it has formerly felt.

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