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affociation of ideas againſt almoſt appear arifes attention becauſe cafe caufe cauſe circumſtances conclufions confequence confideration confidered conftitution connexion courfe courſe curiofity degree diftinction diſcovery doctrine effect effential eſtabliſhed exerciſe exift exiſtence expreffed expreffion faculties faid fame fays fcience feems fenfation fenfe fenfible fhall fhew fhould fimilar firft firſt fituation fleep fociety fome fpecies fpeculations ftate ftriking fubject fuch fufficient fuggefted fuppofed fuppofition furniſh fyftem genius habits happineſs himſelf hiſtory human illuftrate imagination impoffible impreffions inftances intellectual intereſting inveſtigation itſelf language leaſt lefs leſs Lord Bacon meaſure memory mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffarily neceffary obfervations objects occafion opinion paffage particular perception perfon philofophers phyfical pleaſe pleaſure poffeffed poffible prefent principles proceffes profe progrefs purpoſe purſuits quĉ queſtion reafon recollect refpect refult remarks ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe whofe words
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Page 544 - Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 171 - A great philosopher - has disputed the received opinion in this particular, and has asserted, that all general ideas are nothing but particular ones annexed to a certain term, which gives them a more extensive signification, and makes them recall upon occasion other individuals, which are similar to them.
Page 214 - These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things, is requisite than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Page 482 - Indeed it is impossible, in the rapidity and quick succession of words in conversation to have ideas both of the sound of the word, and of the thing represented : besides, some words, expressing real essences, are so mixed with others of a general and nominal import, that it is impracticable to jump from sense to thought, from particulars to generals, from things to words, in such a manner as to answer the purposes of life; nor is it necessary that we should.
Page 483 - ... mere sounds; but they are sounds which, being used on particular occasions, wherein we receive some good, or suffer some evil, or see others affected with good or evil, or which we hear applied to other interesting things or events ; and being applied in such a variety of cases that we know readily by habit to what things they belong, they produce in the mind, whenever they are afterwards mentioned, effects similar to those of their occasions.
Page 213 - He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and to liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.
Page 275 - Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent! Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part. As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns.
Page 463 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.
Page 529 - I think, usual in any of our ideas, but those received by sight; because sight, the most comprehensive of all our senses, conveying to our minds the ideas of light and colours, which are peculiar only to that sense; and also the far different ideas of space, figure, and motion...
Page 320 - I have been told by a friend, that having occasion, in consequence of an indisposition, to apply a bottle of hot water to his feet when he went to bed, he dreamed that he was making a journey to the top of Mount ./Etna, and that he found the heat of the ground almost insupportable. Another person having a blister applied to his head, dreamed that he was scalped by a party of Indians.