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... knowledge of the history of the Philosophical Department as an integral factor in the course at the Scottish universities . He was proud of the names which had adorned it , and was correspondingly ten- acious of what he conceived to be ...
... knowledge of the history of the Philosophical Department as an integral factor in the course at the Scottish universities . He was proud of the names which had adorned it , and was correspondingly ten- acious of what he conceived to be ...
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... knowledge in those bypaths of philosophy for the moderns - the Treatises of Aristotle and of the Scholastic Doctors . A Scot , then , by ancestry , by training , and in his public career , Mr Veitch was to a large extent national in his ...
... knowledge in those bypaths of philosophy for the moderns - the Treatises of Aristotle and of the Scholastic Doctors . A Scot , then , by ancestry , by training , and in his public career , Mr Veitch was to a large extent national in his ...
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... knowledge as it is in the inner man , to the rejection of experience as a whole , and of the universe . It may be fairly alleged that Hamilton was the last constructive representative of this stage , on one of its sides , as John Stuart ...
... knowledge as it is in the inner man , to the rejection of experience as a whole , and of the universe . It may be fairly alleged that Hamilton was the last constructive representative of this stage , on one of its sides , as John Stuart ...
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... knowledge , we usually hear of a ' con- sciousness , ' or ' thought , ' as doing the work of knowing and making . This is not a correct or justifiable use of words ; it is a substitution of the act for the actor , of the knowing for the ...
... knowledge , we usually hear of a ' con- sciousness , ' or ' thought , ' as doing the work of knowing and making . This is not a correct or justifiable use of words ; it is a substitution of the act for the actor , of the knowing for the ...
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... knowledge in which the essential qualities of things are given ; I believe , because I know . Be- lief in external reality is not blind , but grounded on knowledge.2 While M. Dauriac admits the validity of the distinction between ...
... knowledge in which the essential qualities of things are given ; I believe , because I know . Be- lief in external reality is not blind , but grounded on knowledge.2 While M. Dauriac admits the validity of the distinction between ...
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Page 183 - Of unknown modes of being ; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields ; But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.
Page xxxviii - As if a voice were in them, the sick sight And giddy prospect of the raving stream, The unfettered clouds and region of the Heavens, Tumult and peace, the darkness and the light— Were all like workings of one mind, the features Of the same face, blossoms upon one tree ; Characters of the great Apocalypse, The types and symbols of Eternity, Of first, and last, and midst, and without end.
Page 220 - Is lightened ; that serene and blessed mood In which the affections gently lead us on, Until the breath of this corporeal frame, And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
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Page 221 - Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
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