The Human Nature Club: An Introduction to the Study of Mental LifeLongmans, Green and Company, 1901 - 235 páginas |
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ability acquisitions action answer aphonia Arthur asked attend believe better birth bodily brain cells CHAPTER character color-blind commotion complementary colors connections course criminals depends electric current Elkin emotions eral eyes fact feeling of effort Francis Galton germ-inheritance give habits happens hear Henshaw heredity Human Nature Club hypnosis hypnotic idea imagery imitation important impulse influence inherited inhibited instance keep Leighton look man's matter mean memory mental images mental make-up mind Miss Atwell Miss Clark Miss Fairbanks Molière movements muscles nerve-cells observations one's opinion particular person play Principles of Psychology Psychology question Ralston react reactions reason remember seems sensations sense sight situation sort of thing sound suggestion suppose sure talk Tasker taste tell tion to-night train of thought walk week wonder word
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Página 57 - But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was : and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
Página 142 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 142 - Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the workingday, he may safely leave the final result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning, to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation, in whatever pursuit he may have singled out.
Página 101 - BY night we linger'd on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn; And calm that let the tapers burn Unwavering: not a cricket chirr'd: The brook alone far-off was heard, And on the board the fluttering urn : And bats went round in fragrant skies, And wheel'd or lit the filmy shapes That haunt the dusk, with ermine capes And woolly breasts and beaded eyes...
Página 142 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
Página 101 - And bats went round in fragrant skies, And wheel'd or lit the filmy shapes That haunt the dusk, with ermine capes And woolly breasts and beaded eyes ; While now we...
Página 211 - For wherever a man's place is, whether the place which he has chosen or that in which he has been placed by a commander, there he ought to remain in the hour of danger; he should not think of death or of anything, but of disgrace. And this, O men of Athens, is a true saying.
Página 117 - Common sense says, we lose our fortune, are sorry and weep; we meet a bear, are frightened and run; we are insulted by a rival, are angry and strike. The hypothesis here to be defended says that this order of sequence is incorrect...
Página 213 - When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really...
Página 142 - Well ! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it ; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes. Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out.