 But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding,...  The Monthly repository (and review). - Page 2141817Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1861 - 642 pages
...new class of Ideas on occasion of the comparison : — the Sceptic dogmatically maintains that " the creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the Senses and Experience." The Intellectualist comprehends under our "Intuitive... | |
 | William Thomas Thornton - 1873 - 318 pages
...are copies of our impressions or more lively ones,' the ' entire creative power of the mind amounting to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded by the senses and experience.' So confident is he of the literal accuracy of this... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...beyond the power of thought, except what implies an absolute contradiction. But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find upon...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1888 - 442 pages
...all our ideas, which, as before, he identifies with our thoughts: — ' But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only join... | |
 | Thomas Case - 1888 - 434 pages
...all our ideas, which, as before, he identifies with our thoughts : — ' But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find,...amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, CHAP. IX. transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience.... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 374 pages
...hands that imagination creates nothing, that it produces nothing new." — Sir W. Hamilton. "All the creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." — D. Hume. 1 " The congeries of phenomena called... | |
 | David Kay - 1888 - 388 pages
...hands that imagination creates nothing, that it produces nothing new." — Sir W. Hamilton. "All the creative power of the mind amounts to no more than...compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience." — D. Hume. 1 "The congeries of phenomena called... | |
 | 1889 - 502 pages
...eines >wortvorraths« in einer fremden (bes. der engl.) spräche unbounded liberty , iff shall find on nearer examination , that it is really confined within...compounding, transposing, augmenting or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience*. '). Ich schliesse diese bemerkungen mit einer... | |
 | 1889 - 508 pages
...muss. *) Hoppe aao unbounded liberty , we shall ßnd on nearer examination , that it is really conßned within very narrow limits , and that all this creative...of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of eompounding, transposing, augmenting or diminishing the materials afforded us by the senses and experience«... | |
 | 1889 - 526 pages
...nearer examination , that it is really confined wilhin very narrow limits , and that all this ercativt power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty...compounding, transposing, augmenting or diminishing the materials qffbrded us by Ihe senses and cxperience* '). Ich schliesse diese bemerkungen mit einer Variation... | |
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