 | 1836 - 566 pages
...nervous system have totally distinct endowments, and that there are nerves, as I have elsewhere shown, insensible to touch and incapable of giving pain,...two organs, one external and exposed, and the other in-, ternal and carefully excluded from injury. The eye, consisting of its proper nerve of vision and... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 430 pages
...we have no just reason to conclude that the brain should be sensible, or exhibit a property of the nerve of the skin. Reason on it as we may, the fact...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. 158— Hours of Rest, B.— The mind requires regular rest as well as the body, and does not so soon... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 496 pages
...sensibility here would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. "Reason on it, however, as we may, the fact is so; — the brain, through...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision." — ED. name, and to consider them as one uncompounded operation. Philosophers, even more than the... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 pages
...sensibility here would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. " Reason on it, however, as we may, the fact is so; — the brain, through...must have an appropriate organ, and that it is an etpecial provision." — ED. name, and to consider them as one uncompounded operation. Philosophers,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 528 pages
...sensibility here would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. " Reason on it, however, as we may, the fact is so; — the brain, through...must have an appropriate organ, and that it is an es)»xiat provision." — ED. the confounding our sensations with that perception of external objects... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 524 pages
...have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. '"Reason on it, however, as we may, the faet is so ; — the brain, through which every impression...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. n — KD. the confounding our sensations with that perception of external objects which is constantly... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1855 - 516 pages
...would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. *" Reason on it, however, as AVC may, the fact is so ; — the brain, through which...living part, but that it must have an appropriate organ3 and that it is an especial provision" — ED. the confounding our sensations with that perception... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 pages
...the effect to expose, man to superfluous suffering. "Beaton on it, however, as we may. the f:ict i« so ; — the brain, through which every impression...must have "an appropriate organ, and that it is an esptciul provision." — ED. the confounding our sensations with that perception of external objects... | |
 | John Timbs - 1857 - 444 pages
...off, without interrupting the patient in the sentence he is uttering, is a surprising circumstance 1 This informs us that sensibility is not a necessary attendant on the delicate texture of a liviug part, but that it must have aa appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. —... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 274 pages
...we have no just reason to conclude that the brain should be sensible, or exhibit a property of the nerve of the skin. Reason on it as we may, the fact...appropriate organ, and that it is an especial provision. — Sir Charleg Bell's Bridgewater Treatise. SKIN-DEEP WOUNDS. The extreme sensibility of the skin... | |
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... so that sensibility here would only have the effect to expose man to superfluous suffering. " Reason on it, however, as we may, the fact is so; — the brain, through which every impression must be conveyed before it is perceived, is itself insensible.... 
