Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 |
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... distance through the instrumentality of light , air , or the thin element which emanates from odorous bodies . The senses of taste and feeling are commonly , if not always , affected by actual contact with the bodies themselves . In the ...
... distance through the instrumentality of light , air , or the thin element which emanates from odorous bodies . The senses of taste and feeling are commonly , if not always , affected by actual contact with the bodies themselves . In the ...
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... distance , he dis- covered it , and could guess its size with considerable accuracy . When he walked , he knew when he passed by a tree , a wall , or a house . His ear had become so accurate from habit , that he could not only recognise ...
... distance , he dis- covered it , and could guess its size with considerable accuracy . When he walked , he knew when he passed by a tree , a wall , or a house . His ear had become so accurate from habit , that he could not only recognise ...
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... distance . of any objects , nor their size , nor their figure ; and yet there is nothing which science has more clearly proved . The eye originally sees nothing but colour and surface . A man born blind and suddenly restored to sight ...
... distance . of any objects , nor their size , nor their figure ; and yet there is nothing which science has more clearly proved . The eye originally sees nothing but colour and surface . A man born blind and suddenly restored to sight ...
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... distance upon the same flat canvas . The mere diminution of the magni- tude of an object would not have the effect of making it appear at a greater distance . For if , in a cattle piece , the artist were to make one cow ten times as ...
... distance upon the same flat canvas . The mere diminution of the magni- tude of an object would not have the effect of making it appear at a greater distance . For if , in a cattle piece , the artist were to make one cow ten times as ...
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... distances of the object , from six or seven inches to fifteen or sixteen feet , so as to have perfect and distinct vision at any distance within these limits . Now , place an object at the distance of six inches from the eye , and ...
... distances of the object , from six or seven inches to fifteen or sixteen feet , so as to have perfect and distinct vision at any distance within these limits . Now , place an object at the distance of six inches from the eye , and ...
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Page 197 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 341 - The other shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 119 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Page 118 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy ; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Page 204 - And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. The master saw the madness rise, His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he heaven and earth defied, Changed his hand, and checked his pride. He chose a mournful Muse, Soft pity to infuse; He sung Darius...
Page 204 - Changed his hand and checked his pride. He chose a mournful muse Soft pity to infuse : He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen...
Page 222 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up...
Page 338 - Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place.
Page 216 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Page 233 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat; if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the Whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.