Philosophical DialoguesSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1845 - 163 pagina's |
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... nature of our General conceptions— the limited function of Instinctive impulses in man — the relation of Cause and effect , and the proper notion and agency of volition -the true source of Sublimity and beauty - and the origin and ...
... nature of our General conceptions— the limited function of Instinctive impulses in man — the relation of Cause and effect , and the proper notion and agency of volition -the true source of Sublimity and beauty - and the origin and ...
Pagina 1
... nature we have full warning that they cannot remain long with us . My two friends , Cleanthes and Philo , are now at no great distance from the necessary termination of their mortal career . On my return lately , after some years ...
... nature we have full warning that they cannot remain long with us . My two friends , Cleanthes and Philo , are now at no great distance from the necessary termination of their mortal career . On my return lately , after some years ...
Pagina 3
... nature - I mean those of the poets , who either chime in with the sentiments which the beauties of natural scenery awaken in our own bosoms , or give an expression to others , of a more delicate and refined tone than we should have ...
... nature - I mean those of the poets , who either chime in with the sentiments which the beauties of natural scenery awaken in our own bosoms , or give an expression to others , of a more delicate and refined tone than we should have ...
Pagina 4
... natural cord when he represents his Eve in Paradise itself , longing for a short intermission from the society of her ... nature is then repre- sented to have existed . Since the Fall , we have , probably , become still more capricious ...
... natural cord when he represents his Eve in Paradise itself , longing for a short intermission from the society of her ... nature is then repre- sented to have existed . Since the Fall , we have , probably , become still more capricious ...
Pagina 7
... nature was his , and how intimately acquainted and delighted with the living world and its concerns ! In our own day , Sir Walter Scott was no less con- stantly buoyant on the tide of real existence . - At the same time , there is none ...
... nature was his , and how intimately acquainted and delighted with the living world and its concerns ! In our own day , Sir Walter Scott was no less con- stantly buoyant on the tide of real existence . - At the same time , there is none ...
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admit amidst appearance apprehension arise arrangement aspect atheism belief Berkeley Berkeley's called causation cause and effect certainly character Cleanthes colour common commonly conceive conception conclusion connection conscious contemplation continuance conversation course of nature creation creatures Deity derived distinct Divine doubt emotions enquiry Erastian external existence eyes fact faculties farther feeling fixed foundation give ground habit Hermippus higher human mind ideal philosophy ideal theory ideas imagination impression innate idea instinct intel intellectual intelligence invariable kind laws less Lord Shaftesbury manner material world memory mental mental philosophy merely metaphysical moral movements never observation operations original ourselves Pamphilus perceive perceptions perhaps Philo philosophers Plato Pleiades poet present principles purpose qualities reality reason recollection regard scarcely scene sceptical seems sensations sense sentiment separate speak speculations sublimity and beauty substance succession suppose supposition thing thought tical tion trace truth volition wisdom wonderful
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Pagina 59 - Some capital city; or less than if this frame Of heaven were falling, and these elements In mutiny had from her axle torn The steadfast earth. At last his sail-broad vans He spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke Uplifted spurns the ground...
Pagina 35 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb...
Pagina 106 - Twas Mr. Locke that struck at all fundamentals, threw all order and virtue out of the world, and made the very ideas of these (which are the same with those of GOD) unnatural, and without foundation in our minds.
Pagina 129 - We no where meet with a more glorious or pleasing Show in Nature, than what appears in the Heavens at the rising and setting of the Sun, which is wholly made up of those different Stains of Light that shew themselves in Clouds of a different Situation...
Pagina 78 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim night A glimmering dawn; here nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Pagina 116 - Mark the sable woods That shade sublime yon mountain's nodding brow; With what religious awe the solemn scene Commands your steps ; as if the reverend form Of Minos or of Numa should forsake The Elysian seats, and down the embowering glade Move to your pausing eye...
Pagina 110 - Here, then, is a kind of pre-established harmony between the course of nature and the succession of our ideas; and though the powers and forces by which the former is governed be wholly unknown to us, yet our thoughts and conceptions have still, we find, gone on in the same train with the other works of nature.
Pagina 119 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
Pagina 120 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Pagina 121 - Water with berries in't ; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night : and then I lov'd thee, And show'd thee all the qualities o...