The Cambridge History of English Literature, Volume 14Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller G.P. Putnam's sons, 1916 - English literature |
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... important practical con- sequence can follow1 ' About the same time , or a few years earlier , similar views con- cerning the low estate of English philosophy had been expressed by Sir William Hamilton and by Thomas Carlyle2 ; and a ...
... important practical con- sequence can follow1 ' About the same time , or a few years earlier , similar views con- cerning the low estate of English philosophy had been expressed by Sir William Hamilton and by Thomas Carlyle2 ; and a ...
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... important distinction between the muscular sense and touch proper , resolved knowledge of extension into a succession of muscular sensations , and knowledge of the external world into a number of constituent sensations , but held ...
... important distinction between the muscular sense and touch proper , resolved knowledge of extension into a succession of muscular sensations , and knowledge of the external world into a number of constituent sensations , but held ...
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... important to arrive at a correct estimate of Hamilton's work in order to understand the course of British philosophy . Sir William Hamilton was born in 1788 , in the old college of Glasgow , where his father was a professor . He was ...
... important to arrive at a correct estimate of Hamilton's work in order to understand the course of British philosophy . Sir William Hamilton was born in 1788 , in the old college of Glasgow , where his father was a professor . He was ...
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... important medium ; he brought into English literature ideas which had been derived from Kant and his successors , and he was recognised by John Stuart Mill as representing a type of thought , antagonistic to the dominant Benthamism ...
... important medium ; he brought into English literature ideas which had been derived from Kant and his successors , and he was recognised by John Stuart Mill as representing a type of thought , antagonistic to the dominant Benthamism ...
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... important . He overcame the provincialism of English thought and he brought it into connection with the greatest of the new German philosophers . It may have been an imperfect Kant that he revealed ; Fichte , Schelling and Hegel were ...
... important . He overcame the provincialism of English thought and he brought it into connection with the greatest of the new German philosophers . It may have been an imperfect Kant that he revealed ; Fichte , Schelling and Hegel were ...
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