 | Thomas Reid - 1857 - 528 pages
...altogether incapable of apprehending differences, it could not be said that, "being told what things tlicy were, whose form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe, that he might know them again " : for observation supposes the power of discrimination, and, in particular, the anecdote of the dog... | |
 | Worthington Hooker - 1859 - 468 pages
...distiince, and figure of objects acquired. another, however different in shape or magnitude; but upon being told what things were, whose form he before...know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day. At first he could bear but very little light, and the things he saw he thought extremely large ; but... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 772 pages
...shape of anything, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : but upon being told what things were, whose form he before...he forgot many of them ; and (as he said) at first learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day. One particular only (though it may appear... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1859 - 752 pages
...shape of anything, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude : but upon being told what things were, whose form he before...might know them again ; but having too many objects to learu at once, he forgot many of them ; and (as he said) at first learned to know, and again forgot... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 750 pages
...another, however different in shape or magnitude : but upon being told what things were, whose forin he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe,...he forgot many of them ; and (as he said) at first learned to know, and again forgot a thousand things in a day. One particular only (though it may appear... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...nonsense. If he had been altogether incapable of apprehending differences, it could not be said that, " being told what things were whose form he before knew...would carefully observe that he might know them again ; " for observation supposes the power of discrimination, and, in particular, the anecdote of the dog... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 626 pages
...nonsense. If he had been altogether incapable of apprehending differences, it could not bo said that, " being told what things were whose form he before knew...would carefully observe that he might know them again ; " for observation supposes the power of diserimination, and, in particular, the anecdote of the <log... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 584 pages
...incapable of apprehending differences, it could not be said that, " being told what things were whoso form he before knew from feeling, he would carefully observe that he might know them again ; " for observation supposes the power of discrimination, and, in particular, the aneedote of the dog... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1862 - 584 pages
...If he had been altogether incapable of apprehending differences, it could not be said that, " bcing told what things were whose form he before knew from...would carefully observe that he might know them again ; " for observation supposes the power of diserimination, and, in particular, the aneedote of the dog... | |
 | Afternoon lectures - 1866 - 242 pages
...but upon being told what things were, before observed from feeling, he would carefully observe them that he might know them again ; but having too many...know, and again forgot, a thousand things in a day. Several weeks after he was couched, being deceived by pictures, he asked which was the lying sense,... | |
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... he could form no judgment of their shape, or guess what it was in any object that was pleasing to him. He knew not the shape of any thing, nor any one thing from another, however different in shape or magnitude ; but upon being told what things were,... 
