 The great character of all these changes, however, is the regularity which they exhibit ; a regularity, that enables us to accommodate our plans, with perfect foresight, to circumstances which may not yet have begun to exist. We observe the varying phenomena,...  Inquiry Into the Relation of Cause and Effect - Page 9by Thomas Brown - 1818 - 569 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1836 - 884 pages
...says, " The great character of all these changes is the regularity which they exhihit." We ohserve the varying phenomena " as they are continually taking place around us and within us." " The change which we " thus " know in the actual circumstances ohserved, we helieve to have taken... | |
 | Samuel Hibbert - 1825 - 514 pages
...that whatever we observe becomes at once, by the influence of this principle, representatives to us of the past and of the future as well as of the present." Such are the functions of the anticipating faculty of the mind, — that faculty whereby we are enabled... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 486 pages
...every moment of our consciousness, some sensation, or thought, or emotion, is beginning in the mind, or ceasing, or growing more or less intense ; and if...circumstances observed, we believe to have taken place as often as the circumstances before were similar; and we believe also that it will continue to take... | |
 | 1836 - 928 pages
...his treatise, says, " The great character of all these changes is the regularity which they exhibit." We observe the varying phenomena " as they are continually taking place around us and within us." " The change which we" thus " know in the actual circumstances observed, we believe to have taken place... | |
 | Daniel Dewar - 1838 - 516 pages
...remarks, of those changes in the midst of which we live, is " the regularity which they exhibit,—a regularity that enables us to accommodate our plans...circumstances observed, we believe to have taken place as often as the circumstances before were similar ; and we believe also, that it will continue to take... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...in quiet— to give him time to take stock of his position, looking before and after, and thinking of the past and of the future as well as of the ever-importunate present; to repent of what is wrong in the one and to form good resolutions for the... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1862 - 316 pages
...even the existence of God ? Do we then deny that God has always a perfect knowledge of all events ; of the past and of the future, as well as of the present ? On the contrary, we do most emphatically declare this ; do most strenuously hold to it ; and hold... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - 1862 - 316 pages
...even the existence of God ? Do •we then deny that God has always a perfect knowledge of all events ; of the past and of the future, as well as of the present? On the contrary, we do most emphatically declare this ; do most strenuously hold to it ; and hold this... | |
 | 1888 - 704 pages
...the imagination in one sense are in another sense not creatures of the imagination at all, but people of the past and of the future as well as of the present, in that they represent JAQUES-HENKI-BERNARDIN ПК ST. PIERRE. some of the springs of action in human... | |
 | Oscar Fay Adams - 1889 - 302 pages
...the imagination in one sense are in another sense not creatures of the imagination at all, but people of the past and of the future as well as of the present, since they represent some of the springs of action in human character, that they are so real to us.... | |
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