Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 1, Part 2W. Pickering, 1847 |
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... reader need only be reminded , that the ideas are themselves , in Hartley's system , nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations . It is a mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre- existence of the ideas , in any ...
... reader need only be reminded , that the ideas are themselves , in Hartley's system , nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations . It is a mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre- existence of the ideas , in any ...
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... reader need only be reminded , that the ideas are themselves , in Hartley's system , nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations . It is a mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre- existence of the ideas , in any ...
... reader need only be reminded , that the ideas are themselves , in Hartley's system , nothing more than their appropriate configurative vibrations . It is a mere delusion of the fancy to conceive the pre- existence of the ideas , in any ...
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... reader's attention , may be as truly said to be written by Saint Paul's church , as by me : for it is the mere motion of my muscles and nerves ; and these again are set in motion from external causes equally passive , which external ...
... reader's attention , may be as truly said to be written by Saint Paul's church , as by me : for it is the mere motion of my muscles and nerves ; and these again are set in motion from external causes equally passive , which external ...
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... readers will have observed a small water - insect on the surface of rivulets , which throws a cinque - spotted sha- dow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunny bot- tom of the brook ; and will have noticed , how the little animal ...
... readers will have observed a small water - insect on the surface of rivulets , which throws a cinque - spotted sha- dow fringed with prismatic colours on the sunny bot- tom of the brook ; and will have noticed , how the little animal ...
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... reader must bring with him a spirit and judgment superior to that of the writers themselves : And what he brings , what needs he elsewhere seek ? 13 —a sophism , which I fully agree with Warburton , is unworthy of Milton ; how much more ...
... reader must bring with him a spirit and judgment superior to that of the writers themselves : And what he brings , what needs he elsewhere seek ? 13 —a sophism , which I fully agree with Warburton , is unworthy of Milton ; how much more ...
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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...