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... PHANTOMS OR IDOLS OF THE MIND - The Idols of the Tribe- " Stick to the Baskets " -Micromegas - Idols of the Den - Prejudice - Mr . Cecil and the Watch - The Sacred Room in Every House - Idols of the Market Place Idols of the Theatre ...
... PHANTOMS OR IDOLS OF THE MIND - The Idols of the Tribe- " Stick to the Baskets " -Micromegas - Idols of the Den - Prejudice - Mr . Cecil and the Watch - The Sacred Room in Every House - Idols of the Market Place Idols of the Theatre ...
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... phantom flew . " When difficulties are met in this way , they are gone . Laziness is perpetually saying , " There is a Lion in the way ; " and the Lion very well knows in which street Laziness lives , aud he is frequently there . We ...
... phantom flew . " When difficulties are met in this way , they are gone . Laziness is perpetually saying , " There is a Lion in the way ; " and the Lion very well knows in which street Laziness lives , aud he is frequently there . We ...
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... phantoms , and the blaze of light he let in banished the motley group , the collection of so many ages and nations . Up to this time there had been no genuine observation : men had seen things , but they had not really looked at them ...
... phantoms , and the blaze of light he let in banished the motley group , the collection of so many ages and nations . Up to this time there had been no genuine observation : men had seen things , but they had not really looked at them ...
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... Phantoms . The PHANTOMS OF THE MIND . Against these our Bacon fought - the huge train of wild fancies to which undisciplined natures had lent their full credence , and the men who called themselves the instruc- tors of the people , had ...
... Phantoms . The PHANTOMS OF THE MIND . Against these our Bacon fought - the huge train of wild fancies to which undisciplined natures had lent their full credence , and the men who called themselves the instruc- tors of the people , had ...
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... Phantoms ; they are in fact Biases - all prejudice is bias ; prejudice is pre - judgment , the preference of the mind . The mind should have no preference , no bias , but for truth ; it should be indifferent that it may be honest ; men ...
... Phantoms ; they are in fact Biases - all prejudice is bias ; prejudice is pre - judgment , the preference of the mind . The mind should have no preference , no bias , but for truth ; it should be indifferent that it may be honest ; men ...
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Página 232 - And fades the grass away. 3 Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone : Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.
Página 197 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Página 192 - ... -by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away.
Página 194 - ... on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them Stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose...
Página 160 - MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much, as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Página 223 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world in vain had tried And sorrow but more closely tied; That stood the storm when waves were rough Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity!
Página 81 - You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him. It is hardly possible but the character should take a higher and better tone from the constant habit of associating in thought with a class of thinkers, to say the least of it, above the average of humanity.
Página 193 - ... gratitude, passion ; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker ; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 81 - If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its Ills, however things might go amiss, and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading.
Página 187 - If he does not know every thing that has been done in the immeasurable ages that are past, some things may have been done by a God. Thus, unless he knows all things, that is, precludes another Deity by being one himself, he cannot know that the Being whose existence he rejects, does not exist.