 | Thomas Medwin - 1847 - 384 strani
...matter-of-fact mind, is given in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound. It is the best practical refutation of the maxim, that " there is nothing in the intellect, that was not first in the senses," and of all the sorrowful deductions therefrom ; and when we read Shelley's apocalyptic Triumph of Life,... | |
 | Ezra Hall Gillett - 1874 - 440 strani
...express ideas of them, the language we employ is borrowed from sensatio*. The maxim of the logicians, that there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sense, is to be taken .for " a sure and fundamental truth." The mind at birth is a " Tabula Rasa, or... | |
 | Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 strani
...supply a basis for faith. Its first principle was "Nihil in intel, lectu quod non prius in sensu." " There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses." From this principle nothing but skepticism could proceed. How, for instance, asks the Transcendentalist,... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - 326 strani
...of the man. 23. Leibnitz long ago replied to this pretence by his famous and yet unanswered remark: There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sensations, except the intellect itself. (Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in sensu, nisi ipse... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1878 - 326 strani
...of the man. 23. Leibnitz long ago replied to this pretence by his famous and yet unanswered remark: There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sensations, except the intellect itself. (Nihil est in intellectu, quod non fuerit in sensu, nisi ipse... | |
 | William Lockhart - 1886 - 430 strani
...tabula rasa, together with the axiom, " Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuerit prius in sensu," " there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the sense," would almost seem to have foreseen that some of his interpreters would endeavour to draw therefrom... | |
 | Shelley Society - 1887 - 194 strani
...existence—if we choose to think so. True poetry is indeed the best practical refutation of the maxim that there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, and of all the sorrowful deductions therefrom. Shelley's Witch of Atlas, his terrific Triumph of Life,... | |
 | Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1887 - 184 strani
...existence — if we choose to think so. True poetry is indeed the best practical refutation of the maxim that there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, and of all the sorrowful deductions therefrom. Shelley's Witch of Atlas, his terrific Triumph of Life,... | |
 | Edwin Crawford Hewett - 1889 - 204 strani
...Conception, and Reflection, or Thinking, as that word is used by philosophers. It is an old saying that, "There is nothing in the Intellect that was not first in the Sense." This is very true, if we except the products of intuition, or the "Natural Reason." All the... | |
 | 1891 - 204 strani
...by some thirty years, Comenins profited by the master's fertile suggestions. He adopted the theory that there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses. This leads to the study of things, to the suggestion of object lessons, and to the cultivation of the... | |
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Thus, while it is true on one level of mind that there is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the senses, it is not necessarily true for both levels. 
