The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1Houlston and Stonemen, 1866 |
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... mind with a living energy and power . Rightly were they called of old " winged words ; for ideas are trans- mitted from one to another through their intervention , and in their flight they convey thought from mind to mind . The chief ...
... mind with a living energy and power . Rightly were they called of old " winged words ; for ideas are trans- mitted from one to another through their intervention , and in their flight they convey thought from mind to mind . The chief ...
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... mind , but also excite in others a sympathetic effort which shall induce them to strive to recognize the significa ... minds of others , so as to cause them to agree with us in some opinion , course of conduct , or view of affairs . The ...
... mind , but also excite in others a sympathetic effort which shall induce them to strive to recognize the significa ... minds of others , so as to cause them to agree with us in some opinion , course of conduct , or view of affairs . The ...
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... mind to another , provided that the agency employed to shadow forth the ideas can preserve as well as record and transmit the contents of the mind . It implies a substance other than the memory for its reception and its inhe- rence ...
... mind to another , provided that the agency employed to shadow forth the ideas can preserve as well as record and transmit the contents of the mind . It implies a substance other than the memory for its reception and its inhe- rence ...
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... minds . The literature of a country or of an age consists really of all the preserved thought which may , can , or is intended to be communicated from one mind to another , but much of this possesses only a personal or accidental value ...
... minds . The literature of a country or of an age consists really of all the preserved thought which may , can , or is intended to be communicated from one mind to another , but much of this possesses only a personal or accidental value ...
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... mind , or self . But all the manifestations of thought so far forth , that is , as they are shown , marked , or represented by signs , are objective , or externalized . Thought is not mind , but the result of its spontaneous or excited ...
... mind , or self . But all the manifestations of thought so far forth , that is , as they are shown , marked , or represented by signs , are objective , or externalized . Thought is not mind , but the result of its spontaneous or excited ...
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Page 306 - Lastly, I should not choose this manner of writing, wherein knowing myself inferior to myself, led by the genial power of nature to another task, I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand...
Page 109 - ... For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place ; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool : are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the...
Page 95 - O send out thy light and thy truth : let them lead me ; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
Page 425 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand ; 5 And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand...
Page 117 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair-spoken and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him, sweet as summer.
Page 109 - My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment ; and ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him ; Sit thou here in a good place...
Page 117 - O'er the weak thrones of wrong. All thought begins in feeling, — wide In the great mass its base is hid, And, narrowing up to thought, stands glorified, A moveless pyramid.
Page 238 - But critic-learning flourished most in France: The rules a nation, born to serve, obeys; And Boileau still in right of Horace sways. But we, brave Britons, foreign laws despised, And kept unconquered, and uncivilized; Fierce for the liberties of wit, and bold, We still defied the Romans, as of old.
Page 129 - A CLOUD lay cradled near the setting sun ; A gleam of crimson tinged its braided snow ; Long had I watched the glory moving on, O'er the still radiance of the lake below ; Tranquil its spirit seemed and floated slow ; Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west.