Elementary Psychology: With Practical Applications to Education and Conduct of Life, Including an Outline of Logic. For the Use of High Schools, Normal Schools and Academies, Teachers and the General Reader |
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Page 56 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Page 80 - And slight withal may be the things which bring Back on the heart the weight which it would fling Aside for ever : it may be a sound — A tone of music, — summer's eve — or spring, A flower — the wind — the Ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound ; XXIV.
Page 199 - Give me another horse! bind up my wounds! Have mercy, Jesu! Soft! I did but dream. O! coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me. The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling flesh. What! do I fear myself? there's none else by Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I.
Page 88 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a seacoal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singing-man of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 85 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas ; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abtruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses : vg, to " imagine, apprehend, comprehend, adhere, conceive,...
Page 85 - I doubt not, but if we could trace them to their sources, we should find, in all languages, the names, which stand for things that fall not under our senses, to have had their first rise from sensible ideas.
Page 80 - Actions, Sensations, and States of Feeling, occurring together or in close succession, tend to grow together, or cohere, In such a way that, when any one of them is afterwards presented to the mind, the others are apt to be brought up in idea
Page 185 - That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives ; Whom none can love, whom none can thank, Creation's blot, creation's blank ! '4.
Page 192 - Hope could grant no more, And chains and torture hailed him to the shore. And hence the charm historic scenes impart ; Hence Tiber awes, and Avon melts the heart. Aerial forms in Tempe's classic vale Glance thro...
Page 159 - If an instance in which the phenomenon under investigation occurs, and an instance in which it does not occur, have every circumstance in common save one, that one occurring only in the former: the circumstance in which alone the two instances differ is the effect, or cause, or an indispensable part of the cause, of the phenomenon.