Sound Mind; Or, Contributions to the Natural History and Physiology of the Human IntellectLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - 192 ページ |
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acquired actions admeasurement advance afford Anglo-Saxon appear ascer attain attention authority become body capable capacity ception cerning character concerning consciousness considerable considered constitute contrivance convey curiosity degree derived detect directed distinct employed enabled endeavour endowment enquiry especially estimate etymologist evident examination excited exercise exertion existence experience felan ferent fluence gifted ginal guage hand human intellect human mind implies important induced infant influence instances instinct instrument intel intellectual intelligence investigation involuntary James Mitchel ject knowledge language means medium memory ment mental merate moral responsibility munication muscles names nerve numbers observed olfactory organ organ of touch organs of sense perceive perceptions perfect performance person phenomena produced quadruped quired reader reason recollection record rence represent saka Saxon sciousness signification smell sound speech stationary sufficient superior tain tardy taste thought or reflection tion trace transmitted volition voluntary motions wisdom words
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55 ページ - Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.
59 ページ - I say, that this way of speaking of FACULTIES has misled many into a confused notion of so many distinct agents in us, which had their several provinces and authorities, and did command, obey, and perform several actions, as so many distinct beings; which has been no small occasion of wrangling, obscurity, and uncertainty, in questions relating to them.
166 ページ - Large objects, such as the furniture of a room, he felt over with his fingers, whilst those which were more minute, and which excited more of his interest, he applied to his teeth, or touched with the point of his tongue. In exercising the sense of Touch, it was interesting to notice the delicate and precise manner by which he applied the extremities of his fingers, and with what ease and flexibility he would insinuate the point of his tongue into all the inequalities of the body under his examination.
22 ページ - Among the phenomena of memory there are two very curious occurrences, and for which no adequate explanation has been hitherto afforded. Many of the transactions of our early years appear to be wholly obliterated from our recollection ; they have never been presented as the subject of our thoughts, but after the lapse of many years, have been accidentally revived, by our being placed in the situation which originally gave them birth. Although there are numerous...
70 ページ - The first is to allege the opinions of men, whose parts, learning, eminency, power, or some other cause has gained a name, and settled their reputation in the common esteem with some kind of authority. When men are established in any kind of dignity, it is thought a breach of modesty for others to derogate any way from it, and question the authority of men who are in possession of it.
24 ページ - When arrived at the house, she had no memory of its exterior ; but on entering the room where her mother had been confined, her eye anxiously traversed the apartment, and she said, " I have been here before, the prospect from the window is quite familiar to me, and I remember that in this part of the room there was a bed and a sick lady, who kissed me and wept.
191 ページ - When we consider the attributes of the Deity and the nature of man, we can never be induced to conclude that the tribunals of this world are the courts of final retribution. Man bears in his intellectual construction the badge of moral responsibility, and, consequently, the germ of future existence : and the only incentive that can urge him to the advancement of science, and the practice of virtue, is the reward that Revelation has unfolded.
154 ページ - is the power by which man deduces one proposition from another, or proceeds from premises to consequences.
19 ページ - Ю perceive its construction, so as to have a complete perception o€ the different parts or members of which it is composed, he would, in the absence of the animal, be enabled to remember it. To recollect, is only a different figure for the same process, and implies, to re-gather, or collect, those parts which have been scattered in different directions.
54 ページ - If man had been created without bunds, and, consequently, without the acute organ of touch, which resides in the extremities of these members, we must at least have been strangers to the " cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, and the solemn temples