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... natural constitution . The first responses to vocal direction are very awkward and slow . The child does not know how to ... nature of continuing or abating sucking when the hunger is satisfied . We have noticed next a power of selecting ...
... natural constitution . The first responses to vocal direction are very awkward and slow . The child does not know how to ... nature of continuing or abating sucking when the hunger is satisfied . We have noticed next a power of selecting ...
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... nature of volition is plainly to induce the belief that will is nothing more than a mode of feeling . We should then have feeling as homogeneous indefinite consciousness . From this there would be differentiated cognition as definite ...
... nature of volition is plainly to induce the belief that will is nothing more than a mode of feeling . We should then have feeling as homogeneous indefinite consciousness . From this there would be differentiated cognition as definite ...
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... nature . ' The following is the general method of inducing it , with some of the chief symptoms : Take any bright object between the thumb and fore and middle fingers of the left hand ; hold it from about eight to fifteen inches from ...
... nature . ' The following is the general method of inducing it , with some of the chief symptoms : Take any bright object between the thumb and fore and middle fingers of the left hand ; hold it from about eight to fifteen inches from ...
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... nature of man- kind . In music there is very likely some inherent power of giving pleasure from harmonious combinations of sound ; but there is also an exceedingly large portion of the delight coming from the associations of past ...
... nature of man- kind . In music there is very likely some inherent power of giving pleasure from harmonious combinations of sound ; but there is also an exceedingly large portion of the delight coming from the associations of past ...
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... Natural Sight - Percepts embrace physical expressions of the face , arms , and body generally , as grimaces , gestures , contortions , and also such natural phenomena apart from the volition of man of which a symbolical use is made ...
... Natural Sight - Percepts embrace physical expressions of the face , arms , and body generally , as grimaces , gestures , contortions , and also such natural phenomena apart from the volition of man of which a symbolical use is made ...
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Page 313 - Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, " I have no pleasure in them...
Page 476 - Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 262 - First, our Senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them. And thus we come by those ideas we have of yellow, white, heat, cold, soft, hard, bitter, sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities...
Page 262 - ... as we do from bodies affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense.
Page 490 - The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb...
Page 318 - Sisters and their chaste-eyed Queen, Satyrs and Sylvan boys, were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green. Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Page 490 - And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
Page 486 - And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple of it. 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 24 And the nations of them which are saved, shall walk in the light of it; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
Page 384 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...