The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences. Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge, Volume 9Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1818 - Natural history |
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... mind pos- sesses a power or capacity , which we may call the retentive power . This then is that power or capacity of the mind , by which it retains relics of sensations . 8. Again ; it is an indisputable fact , that these ideas , or ...
... mind pos- sesses a power or capacity , which we may call the retentive power . This then is that power or capacity of the mind , by which it retains relics of sensations . 8. Again ; it is an indisputable fact , that these ideas , or ...
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... mind . The absence of the intermediate idea is often so complete , that its ever having been present can only be disco- vered by tracing the progress of the con- nection between the extremes ; and in certain cases where the association ...
... mind . The absence of the intermediate idea is often so complete , that its ever having been present can only be disco- vered by tracing the progress of the con- nection between the extremes ; and in certain cases where the association ...
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... mind . An object which has never before been pre- sented to the mind may excite numerous ideas , or trains of ideas ; while another may continually occur , without exciting a single idea . And the same object will affect different ...
... mind . An object which has never before been pre- sented to the mind may excite numerous ideas , or trains of ideas ; while another may continually occur , without exciting a single idea . And the same object will affect different ...
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