But if Aristotle is right in saying that the virtuous man is the standard of virtue, the man of sound instincts and perceptions ought certainly to be accepted as a standard in the more debatable region of taste.
Drawing nearer to the grave, my perceptions become clearer.
His perceptions are relatively coarse; our perceptions are relatively subtle.
He cannot group together his perceptions and form proper conceptions.
Grouping together your sense perceptions you form the concept, and decide that the object is a piece of marble.
In the Chandler Scientific School, to which Professor Woodman was afterwards assigned, he was specially qualified to do good work, because of his thorough mastery of Mathematics by perceptions almost intuitive.
When one is absolutely decided as to the relation of new perceptions and mental representations, one can calculate exactly the degree of comparison.
He will begin by evoking some subject, comparing its visual forms with, those forms which he understands the best, in other words, to the perceptions which are the most familiar to him.
I then said to myself, 'Now, having fallen into this despair, the only hope of acquiring incontestable convictions is by the perceptions of the senses and by necessary truths.
Having examined the state of my own knowledge, I found it divested of all that could be said to have these qualities, unless perceptions of the senses and irrefragable principles were to be considered such.
My perceptions were sharper and swifter than they had ever been in life; my thoughts rushed through my mind with incredible swiftness, but with perfect definition.
Then his perceptions grew clearer, and he was astonished to miss the old familiar desks and other schoolroom furniture about him.
With all this show of impartiality, however, it will probably be doing no injustice to the judges to suppose that a politic discretion may have somewhat quickened their perceptions of the real merits of the heir-apparent.
But enough was done to quicken the perceptions of the Audience as to their course, for they felt their own lives suspended by a thread in such unscrupulous hands.
The tactile perceptions are, no doubt, conveyed by an independent set of fibres from those which convey the sense of pain.
It will invariably be found, as we shall have occasion to see more fully proved hereafter, that, in parts which are acutely painful, a marked bluntness of the tactile perceptions can be detected.
I would not admit my own perceptions and interpretations.
Modern conditions and modern ideas, and in particular the intenser and subtler perceptions of modern life, press more and more heavily upon a marriage tie whose fashion comes from an earlier and less discriminating time.
Human perceptions first open upon effects, and thence by slow degrees ascend to causes.
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Her perceptions of the same subjects were as different from Mrs. Marvyn's as his who revels only in color from his who is busy with the dry details of mere outline.
But in any case the perceptions of muscular sense exist, however they are or are not produced.
The latter reproduces the impressions of the visual senses, and the painter is within the limits of his art when he presents his purely optical perceptions without composing, or without relating a story, i.
In any case, it is an evidence of diseased and debilitated brain-activity, if consciousness relinquishes the advantages of the differentiated perceptions of phenomena, and carelessly confounds the reports conveyed by the particular senses.
It thus becomes intelligible that the mind mingles the perceptions attained through the different senses, and transforms them one into another.
As often, therefore, as a being (whose nervous system is developed highly enough to raise perceptions to the rank of representations) acquires knowledge, i.
The olfactoryperceptions only furnish a minimum contribution to the concepts which are formed out of ideational elements.
We have seen that the French Symbolists, with their colour-hearing, wished to degrade man to the indifferentiated sense-perceptions of the pholas or oyster.
Little by little the higher centres develop; the child begins to give heed to its sense-impressions, to form from its perceptions ideas, and to make voluntary movements adapted to an end.
He denies himself all higher comprehension, the elaboration of perceptions into concepts, and the classification of the concepts in the experiences which, as general knowledge, pre-exist in his consciousness.
FIRST the new actions of the excited sense, Urged by appulses from without, commence; With these exertions pain or pleasure springs, And forms perceptions of external things.
We may add, that all these four sources of pleasure from perceptions are equally applicable to those of sounds as of sights.
Her perceptions had become dulled by the woe-laden years.
When his eyes met hers something penetrated to his perceptionsthrough the fumes of the liquor he had drunk and told him she was blind.
In times past he had voiced vague and dimly outlined perceptions of her spiritual needs.
He had not been many weeks on Colombian soil when his awakening perceptions sensed the people's oppression under the tyranny of ecclesiastical politicians.
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