The Human Nature Club: An Introduction to the Study of Mental LifeLongmans, Green and Company, 1901 - 235 من الصفحات |
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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 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 noticed 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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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 117 - My theory, on the contrary, is that the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 99 - From the guessing of newspaper enigmas to the plotting of the policy of an empire there is no other process than this. We trust to the laws of cerebral nature to present us spontaneously with the appropriate idea...
الصفحة 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.