Letters on the Philosophy of the Human Mind: First-[second] series |
Common terms and phrases
abstract ideas affirms amongst assertion Berkeley Berkeley's theory causes ceive cerned character circumstances cloth cognitions a priori coloured connexion discern distant distinct doctrine Dugald Stewart Edinburgh Review Essays existence express external objects external world facts faculties feeling Hamilton History Human Mind Illustrations individual infer innate principles inquiry instance JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL Kant knowledge language Leibnitz letter maintained meaning Memoirs ment mental phenomena metaphysicians modes morocco nature notions observation organs of sense particular passage perceive perception percipient phenomena of consciousness philosophers philosophy of mind phrenology physical Plates Post 8vo preceding present propositions qualities question reason regard Reid Reid's relation resemblance retina revised rience says scarcely Second Edition sensation sensorium Sir William Sir William Hamilton Sir Wm speculations Sydney Smith term things tion truth uncon visual perception vols Woodcuts words writer
Popular passages
Page 94 - Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy; But he beholds the light and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy. The youth who daily farther from the East Must travel, still is Nature's priest, And, by the vision splendid, Is on his way attended. At length the man perceives it die away And fade into the light of common day.
Page 9 - Haydn's Book of Dignities : Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Judicial, Military, Naval, and Municipal, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time. Together with the Sovereigns of Europe, from the Foundation of their respective States ; the Peerage and Nobility of Great Britain ; &c. Being a New Edition, improved and continued, of Beatson's Political Index.
Page 251 - Commencing in a truth.'' [ am thane of Cawdor: If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs...
Page 252 - I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings : My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise; and nothing is, But what is not.
Page 21 - Thomson's Tables of Interest, at Three, Four, Four-and-a-Half, and Five per Cent., from One Pound to Ten Thousand, and from 1 to 365 Days, in a regular progression of single Days ; with. Interest at all the above Rates, from One to Twelve Months, and from One to Ten Years.
Page 21 - An OUTLINE of the NECESSARY LAWS of THOUGHT : a Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic.
Page 20 - The VOYAGE and SHIPWRECK of ST, PAUL; with Dissertations on the Life and Writings of St. Luke and the Ships and Navigation of the Ancients.
Page 4 - Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports; or, a complete Account, Historical, Practical, and Descriptive, of Hunting, Shooting, Fishing, Racing, and other Field Sports and Athletic Amusements of the present day.
Page 5 - Bishop Butler's General Atlas of Modern and Ancient Geography ; comprising Fiftytwo full-coloured Maps ; with complete Indices. New Edition, nearly all re-engraved, enlarged, and greatly improved...
Page 5 - The Cabinet Lawyer; a Popular Digest of the Laws of England, Civil, Criminal, and Constitutional. Twenty-Fifth Edition, corrected and extended. Fcp. 8vo.