Biographia Literaria; Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1First edition of this autobiography in discourse. |
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... ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ; the mind is affected ...
... ideas are vivid , and there exists an endless power of combining and modifying them , the feelings and affections blend more easily and intimately with these ideal creations , than with the objects of the senses ; the mind is affected ...
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... conveyed two ideas perfectly dis- parate , and that what appertained to the one , had been falsely transferred to the other by a mere confusion of terms . reader's attention , than so immethodical a mis- cellany can 91.
... conveyed two ideas perfectly dis- parate , and that what appertained to the one , had been falsely transferred to the other by a mere confusion of terms . reader's attention , than so immethodical a mis- cellany can 91.
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... ideas ) actually existed , and in what consists their nature and power . As one word may become the general exponent of many , so by association a simple image may represent a whole class . But in truth Hobbs himself makes no claims to ...
... ideas ) actually existed , and in what consists their nature and power . As one word may become the general exponent of many , so by association a simple image may represent a whole class . But in truth Hobbs himself makes no claims to ...
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... ideas * need not have co - existed in the same * I here use the word " idea " in Mr. Hume's sense on ac- count of its general currency among the English metaphysi- cians ; though against my own judgement , for I believe that the vague ...
... ideas * need not have co - existed in the same * I here use the word " idea " in Mr. Hume's sense on ac- count of its general currency among the English metaphysi- cians ; though against my own judgement , for I believe that the vague ...
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... idea . " Des Cartes having introduced into his philosophy the fanciful hypothesis of material ideas , or certain configurations of the brain , which were as so many moulds to the influxes of the external world ; Mr. Lock adopted the ...
... idea . " Des Cartes having introduced into his philosophy the fanciful hypothesis of material ideas , or certain configurations of the brain , which were as so many moulds to the influxes of the external world ; Mr. Lock adopted the ...
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