International Journal of Ethics, Volume 9International Journal of Ethics, 1899 - Electronic journals Includes section "Book reviews." |
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Page 32
... thought is made we find ( according to my experience ) that the words and opinions of the disputants are much like gestures of point- ing . They are like the motions of a showman as he points out the less obvious characteristics of an ...
... thought is made we find ( according to my experience ) that the words and opinions of the disputants are much like gestures of point- ing . They are like the motions of a showman as he points out the less obvious characteristics of an ...
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... thought to prove without exemplification is very typical of what I mean . " A snow - storm was falling around us . The snow - storm was real , the preacher merely spectral . . . . He had lived in vain . He had no one word in- * " Causes ...
... thought to prove without exemplification is very typical of what I mean . " A snow - storm was falling around us . The snow - storm was real , the preacher merely spectral . . . . He had lived in vain . He had no one word in- * " Causes ...
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... thought it neces- sary to knock over everybody else's . A classical example of this attitude is to be seen in the long controversy which took place in the English magazines some years ago between Professor Huxley and the Duke of Argyle ...
... thought it neces- sary to knock over everybody else's . A classical example of this attitude is to be seen in the long controversy which took place in the English magazines some years ago between Professor Huxley and the Duke of Argyle ...
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... thought " out of his inner consciousness . What else can he do , since he has forsaken the world of facts ? If philosophy can cut loose from experience , if it has any use to which to put abstract ideas and general conceptions , except ...
... thought " out of his inner consciousness . What else can he do , since he has forsaken the world of facts ? If philosophy can cut loose from experience , if it has any use to which to put abstract ideas and general conceptions , except ...
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... thought that my frequent reference to " experi- ence " or " facts " as contrasted with abstract , or " pure " thought , implies that I hope to separate the matter of knowledge from its form , and get at the simple sensations or ...
... thought that my frequent reference to " experi- ence " or " facts " as contrasted with abstract , or " pure " thought , implies that I hope to separate the matter of knowledge from its form , and get at the simple sensations or ...
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Page 192 - I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Page 67 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Page 172 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha ; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shouting.
Page 329 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 251 - The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.
Page 334 - Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i...
Page 504 - Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 428 - Truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement.
Page 67 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 428 - Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas...