On the Philosophy of the MindA. and C. Black, 1839 - 387 頁 |
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第 11 頁
... divine work . What is greatest ? Space , for it contains all . Swiftest ? Mind , for it permeates all . Strong- est ? Necessity , for it governs all . Wisest ? Time , for it discovers all . " And these , if not his exact say- ings , are ...
... divine work . What is greatest ? Space , for it contains all . Swiftest ? Mind , for it permeates all . Strong- est ? Necessity , for it governs all . Wisest ? Time , for it discovers all . " And these , if not his exact say- ings , are ...
第 14 頁
... divine mind . If the Ionic school are difficult to be understood from the broken fragments that alone remain of their tenets , Pythagoras is darker still from the additional veil of religious mystery which is drawn over his opinions ...
... divine mind . If the Ionic school are difficult to be understood from the broken fragments that alone remain of their tenets , Pythagoras is darker still from the additional veil of religious mystery which is drawn over his opinions ...
第 18 頁
... upon abstractions . The most natural form of these abstractions were the ideas and exemplars sub- sisting in the divine mind , such as afterwards were adopted by Plato . Pythagoras chose numbers for a less 18 SPECULATIVE OPINIONS .
... upon abstractions . The most natural form of these abstractions were the ideas and exemplars sub- sisting in the divine mind , such as afterwards were adopted by Plato . Pythagoras chose numbers for a less 18 SPECULATIVE OPINIONS .
第 19 頁
... divine mind . All other numbers flow from that ; and by move- ment from that central point complete the sum of existence . Number is either pure in itself , or arith- metic ; -or in movement , when it becomes music ; — or proceeding ...
... divine mind . All other numbers flow from that ; and by move- ment from that central point complete the sum of existence . Number is either pure in itself , or arith- metic ; -or in movement , when it becomes music ; — or proceeding ...
第 20 頁
... divine substance , imprisoned in an earthly body ; and the consequent belief that the soul ought to be weaned from the senses to a more intellectual life , in order that it may anticipate the time when freed from its dungeon it shall ...
... divine substance , imprisoned in an earthly body ; and the consequent belief that the soul ought to be weaned from the senses to a more intellectual life , in order that it may anticipate the time when freed from its dungeon it shall ...
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第 247 頁 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
第 247 頁 - ... feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice, therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence : because true history representeth actions and events more ordinary, and less interchanged; therefore poesy endueth them with more rareness, and more unexpected and alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth...
第 248 頁 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
第 384 頁 - I am sensible, that of all the paradoxes, which I have had, or shall hereafter have occasion to advance in the course of this treatise, the present one is the most violent...
第 324 頁 - By liberty, then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, according to the determinations of the will; that is, if we choose to remain at rest, we may; if we choose to move, we also may.
第 116 頁 - If our sense of hearing were but one thousand times quicker than it is, how would a perpetual noise distract us ! And we should in the quietest retirement be less able to sleep or meditate, than in the middle of a sea-fight.
第 201 頁 - Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.
第 199 頁 - ... there seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas, even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive; so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercise of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen.
第 351 頁 - And as in civil government the constitution is broken in upon, and violated by power and strength prevailing over authority; so the constitution of man is broken in upon and violated by the lower faculties or principles within prevailing over that which is in its nature supreme over them all.
第 212 頁 - are the speculations of men of superior genius ; but whether they be as solid as they are sublime, or whether they be the wanderings of imagination in a region beyond the limits of human understanding, I am unable to determine.