Nature of the mindLongman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834 - Natural history |
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absurd action already observed animal appears Aristotle beauty behold believe Bishop Berkeley Bishop Butler body brain called Cartes character colour common sense consequently constitution Deity denominated derived desire distinct doctrine doubt Dugald Stewart Epicurus equally Essay existence expression external objects external senses faculties fear feeling Fingal Gall Gaul genius Greek happiness hence human hypothesis imagination immaterial important innate ideas instances instinct intelligent intuitive knowledge judgment kind knowledge language Lect lecture Locke Lucretius Malebranche mankind material matter means mental metaphysical mind moral nature never opinion organ passions PATHOGNOMY peculiar peculiarly perceive perception perhaps phantasms philosophers physiognomy physiologists Plato pleasure poetry poets possess present principle produced proof propensity prove Pyrrho quadrupeds qualities racter reason Reid resemblance respect retributive justice says sensation soul Spurzheim sublime substance supposed taste temperament term theosophy thing thou truth virtue whole words
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Page 53 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 343 - He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.
Page 215 - HAPPINESS ! our being's end and aim ! Good, Pleasure, Ease, Content ! whate'er thy name: That something still which prompts th' eternal sigh, For which we bear to live, or dare to die...
Page 295 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 342 - On a rock, whose haughty brow Frowns o'er old Conway's foaming flood, Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the poet stood ; (Loose his beard and hoary hair, Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air,) And with a master's hand and prophet's fire Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre...
Page 298 - O, that the slave had forty thousand lives ! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
Page 240 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 261 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 302 - twas wild. But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair, What was thy delighted measure ? Still it whisper'd promised pleasure, And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail...
Page 256 - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War...