An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied Logic

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Sheldon & Company, 1866 - 345 страници
 

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Страница 45 - He heard it, but he heeded not - his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother - he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday All this rush'd with his blood - Shall he expire And unavenged?
Страница 62 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air ; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Страница 45 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Страница 75 - A lion !' Surprised at such an exclamation, accompanied with such an act, he turned up his eyes, and with difficulty perceived, at an immeasurable height, a flight of condors soaring in circles in a particular spot. Beneath this spot, far out of sight of himself or guide, lay the carcass of a horse, and over that carcass stood, as the guide well knew, a lion, whom the condors were eyeing with envy from their airy height. The signal of the birds was to him, what the sight of the lion alone would have...
Страница 268 - There are and can exist but two ways of investigating and discovering truth. The one hurries on rapidly from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms; and from them as principles and their supposed indisputable truth derives and discovers the intermediate axioms.
Страница 37 - ... objects that are presented to the mind. When the attention is directed to any object, we do not see the object itself, but contemplate it in the light of our own prior conceptions. A rich man, for example, is regarded by the poor and ignorant under the form of a very fortunate person, able to purchase luxuries which are above their own reach ; by the religious mind, under the form of a person with more than ordinary temptations to contend with ; by the political economist, under that of an example...
Страница 93 - A conscious presentation, if it refers exclusively to the subject as a modification of his own state of being is = sensation. The same if it refers to an object is = perception.
Страница 52 - By virtue of the name we have attached to each of them ; which, like the labels upon the chemist's jars or the gardener's flower-pots, enable us at once to identify and secure the property we seek. Names then are the means of fixing and recording the result of trains of thought, which without them must be repeated frequently, with all the pain of the first effort.* § 25. (iii.) Leibnitz was the first, so far as I know, to call attention to the fact that words are sometimes more than signs of thought...
Страница 43 - ... gestures that indicate the feelings, even painting and sculpture, together with those contrivances which replace speech in situations where it cannot be employed, — the telegraph, the trumpet-call, the emblem, the hieroglyphic. * For the present, however, we may limit it to its most obvious signification ; it is a system of articulate words adopted by convention, to represent outwardly the internal process of thinking.
Страница 29 - Ulrici have since founded upon them. No : the man of science possesses principles, but the artist, not the less nobly gifted on that account, is possessed and carried away by them. " The principles which Art involves, science evolves. The truths on which the success of Art depends, lurk in the artist's mind in an undeveloped state, — guiding his hand, stimulating his invention, balancing his judgment, but not appearing in the form of enunciated propositions.

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