... to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects, and by combining and disposing these, to form a new creation of its own. Outlines of Moral Philosophy - Page 49by Dugald Stewart - 1818 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...what we have formerly felt and perceived ; that of the latter, to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects,...disposing these, to form a new creation of .its own. According to the definitions adopted, in general, by modern philosophers, the province of imagination... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...latter, to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects, and hv combining and disposing these, to form a new creation of its own. According to the definitions adopted, in general, by modern philosophers, the province of imagination... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1822 - 312 pages
...had formerly perceived, felt, or thought. IX. IMAGINATION, or the faculty which makes a selection of qualities and circumstances from a variety of different objects, and by combining and disposing these, forms new creations of its own. X. JUDGMENT, or the faculty by which the mind conies to determinations... | |
| 1826 - 488 pages
...appropriate province of this power, according to Mr. Stewart, is ' to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects,...disposing these, to form a new creation of its own.' Men obviously differ widely from each other in this respect. The ready formation of these combinations... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...what we have formerly felt and perceived ; that of the latter, to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects,...disposing these, to form a new creation of its own. According to the definitions adopted, in general, by modern philosophers, the province of imagination... | |
| George Hogarth - 1835 - 486 pages
...original. If the architect, in the wantonness imagination, to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects,...disposing these, to form a new creation of its own." — "An uncommon degree of imagination constitutes poetical genius ; a talent, which, although chiefly... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1835 - 312 pages
...had formerly perceived, felt, or thought. IX. IMAGINATION, or the faculty which makes a selection of qualities and circumstances from a variety of different objects, and by combining and disposing these, forms new creations of its own. X. JUDGMENT, or the faculty by which the mind comes to determinations... | |
| Thomas Mayo - 1838 - 206 pages
...passage of Mr. DngaM Stewart,* " The province of imagination is to select qualities and circumstance? from a variety of different objects ; and by combining and disposing these :o form a new creation of its own." Again, H The nature and province of imagination are most clearly... | |
| Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 720 pages
...which are presented to it is distinguished by logicians by the name of abstraction. Ibid. p. 156. The province of imagination is to select qualities and...these, to form a new creation of its own. in this appropiated sense of CLXX1II > the word, it coincides with what same authors have called creative or... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...what we have formerly felt and perceived ; that of the latter, to make a selection of qualities and of circumstances from a variety of different objects,...disposing these, to form a new creation of its own. According to the definitions adopted in general by modern philosophers, the province of Imagination... | |
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