Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1, Part 2W. Pickering, 1847 |
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... born at Leipzig , June 21 , 1746 , died Nov. 14 , 1716. This great man , whose intellectual powers and attainments were so various and considerable that he has been ranked among the universal geniuses of the world , appears to have been ...
... born at Leipzig , June 21 , 1746 , died Nov. 14 , 1716. This great man , whose intellectual powers and attainments were so various and considerable that he has been ranked among the universal geniuses of the world , appears to have been ...
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... born at Florence 1433 , and died in 1499. Ed . ] 5 [ Proclus was born at Constantinople in 412 and died in 485. Ed . ] 6 [ G. Gemistius Pletho , a Constantinopolitan . He came to Florence in 1438. De Platonicæ atque Aristotelicæ ...
... born at Florence 1433 , and died in 1499. Ed . ] 5 [ Proclus was born at Constantinople in 412 and died in 485. Ed . ] 6 [ G. Gemistius Pletho , a Constantinopolitan . He came to Florence in 1438. De Platonicæ atque Aristotelicæ ...
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... born near Goerlitz in Upper Lusatia in 1575 . The elements of his theology may be collected from his Aurora , and his treatise " On the Three Principles of the Divine Essence . " A little book about mystic writers , Theologiæ Mys- tice ...
... born near Goerlitz in Upper Lusatia in 1575 . The elements of his theology may be collected from his Aurora , and his treatise " On the Three Principles of the Divine Essence . " A little book about mystic writers , Theologiæ Mys- tice ...
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... born at King's Cliffe , Northamptonshire , in 1688 , died April 9 , 1761. A list of seventeen religious works written by him is given in the Gent . Mag . Nov. 1800. Toward the latter end of his life he adopted " the mystic enthusiasm of ...
... born at King's Cliffe , Northamptonshire , in 1688 , died April 9 , 1761. A list of seventeen religious works written by him is given in the Gent . Mag . Nov. 1800. Toward the latter end of his life he adopted " the mystic enthusiasm of ...
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... born at Amsterdam , Nov. 24 , 1632 , was the son of a Portuguese Jew ; died at the Hague , Feb. 21 , 1677 . " Ce Cousin positively denies the charge of atheism , in the form in which it was laid , against Spinoza , declaring it to have ...
... born at Amsterdam , Nov. 24 , 1632 , was the son of a Portuguese Jew ; died at the Hague , Feb. 21 , 1677 . " Ce Cousin positively denies the charge of atheism , in the form in which it was laid , against Spinoza , declaring it to have ...
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Page 290 - The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of Memory emancipated from the order of time and space; and blended with, and modified by that empirical phenomenon of the will, which we express by the word CHOICE.
Page 289 - The IMAGINATION, then, I consider either as primary or secondary. The primary IMAGINATION I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.
Page 319 - But our ideas being nothing but actual perceptions in the mind, which cease to be any thing when there is no perception of them, this laying up of our ideas in the repository of the memory signifies no more but this, that the mind has a power in many cases to revive perceptions which it has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, that it has had them before.
Page 290 - I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it Struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.
Page 279 - Adam, one Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all Such to perfection, one first matter all, Endued with various forms, various degrees Of substance, and, in things that live, of life...
Page 263 - ... the SUM or I AM ; which I shall hereafter indiscriminately express by the words spirit, self, and self-consciousness. In this, and in this alone, object and subject,10 being and knowing are identical, each involving, and supposing the other. In other words, it is a subject which becomes a subject by the act of constructing itself objectively to itself...
Page 279 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive, or intuitive; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours, Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 226 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Page 226 - It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.
Page 289 - The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM...