 ... the room he was in, he said, he knew to be but part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger.  Human Physiology - Page 291by Robley Dunglison - 1850Full view - About this book
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 478 pages
...things he saw he thought extreamly large; but upon seeing things larger, those first seen he conceiv'd less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond...not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couch'd he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for,... | |
 | William Henry Stanley Monck - Science - 1872 - 106 pages
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger." (See Theory of Vision Vindicated and Explained, sec. Ixxi.) If space is originally presented only as... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1874 - 430 pages
...things he saw he thought extreamly large; but upon seeing things larger, those first seen he conceiv'd less, never being able to imagine any lines beyond...not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couch'd he expected little advantage from seeing, worth undergoing an operation for,... | |
 | Phillips Brooks - Preaching - 1877 - 304 pages
...who was born blind and afterwards brought to sight. " The room he was in, he said, he knew must be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger than that one room." So our new Christian experience only slowly realizes that it is but one part of... | |
 | John Clark Murray - Psychology - 1885 - 456 pages
...that is not actually present. Thus it is related of Cheselden's patient, that at first he was " never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw...conceive that the whole house could look bigger." § 6. — Muscular Perceptions. There is only one of the ge icral senses that is of very great value... | |
 | William T. Preyer - Child development - 1889 - 376 pages
...a large face could be expressed in so little room. " At first he could bear but very little sight, and the things he saw he thought extremely large ;...not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. Before he was couched he expected little advantage from seeing, except reading and writing. Blindness,... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 598 pages
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. He said every new object was a new delight, and the pleasure was so great that he wanted ways to express... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1898 - 568 pages
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. He said every new object was a new delight, and the pleasure was so great that he wanted ways to express... | |
 | George Berkeley - Idealism - 1898 - 588 pages
...never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw. The room he was in, he said, he knew to be part of the house, yet he could not conceive that the whole house could look bigger. He said every new object was a new delight, and the pleasure was so great that he wanted ways to express... | |
 | John Clark Murray - Psychology - 1904 - 538 pages
...that is not actually present. Thus it is related of Cheselden's patient that at first he was " never able to imagine any lines beyond the bounds he saw;...conceive that the whole house could look bigger." § 6. — Muscular Perceptions. There is only one of the general senses that is of very great value... | |
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