 For as at a great distance of place, that which we look at appears dim, and without distinction of the smaller parts; and as voices grow weak, and inarticulate ; so also, after great distance of time, our imagination of the past is weak ; and we lose,...  The History of Moral Science - Page 59by Robert Blakey - 1833Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...which in sense were moved : so that distance of time and of place hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...and of actions, many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...which in sense were moved : so that distance of time and of place hath -one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...and of actions, many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...which in sense were moved : so that distance of time and of place hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...and of actions, many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself (I mean fancy itself) we call Imagination, as... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...which in sense were moved : so that distance of time, and of place, hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...and of actions, many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself, I mean fancy itself, we call imagination, as... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...which in sense were moved : so that distance of time, and of place, hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...and of actions, many particular circumstances. This decaying xenxe, when we would express the thing itself, I mean fancy itself, we call imagination, as... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 546 pages
...the first ; and makes that which was found true here, and now, to be true in all times and places."* I think it quite evident, that the modern doctrine...and of actions many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself, (I mean fancy itself,) we call imagination,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Philosophy - 1850 - 542 pages
...evident, that the modern doctrine of the association of ideas is explicitly treated of by Mr. Hobhes. One of the important faculties of the mind, he says,...and of actions many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself, (I mean fancy itself,) we call imagination,... | |
 | International law - 1854 - 492 pages
...in which sense was moved, so that distance of time and of place has one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place that which we...and of actions many particular circumstances. This decaying sense, when we would express the thing itself, that is, fancy, is called Imagination ; but... | |
 | John Mackintosh - Scotland - 1884 - 538 pages
...but an obscuring of it, in such manner as the light of the sun obscures the light of the stars. . . . For as at a great distance of place, that which we...dim, and without distinction of the smaller parts, so also, after great distance of time, our imagination of the past is weak ; and we lose, for example,... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1886 - 328 pages
...which in sense were moved : ?o that distance of time, and of place, hath one and the same effect in us. For as at a great distance of place, that which we...of the smaller parts ; and as voices grow weak and inaiticulnte ; so also, after great distance of time, our imagination of the past is \\eak ; and we... | |
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