Hatch's is not scientific historical reasoning, but the exercise of what Bishop Butler well designates, that delusivefaculty called man's imagination and fancy.
A tree has the faculty of receiving in its fibres its sap which circulates, of unfolding the buds of its leaves and its fruit; will you ask what the soul of this tree is?
The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free.
The actingfaculty is as incomprehensible for us as the thinking faculty.
In short, while we worship God with all our soul, let us confess always our profound ignorance of this soul, of this faculty of feeling and thinking which we possess from His infinite goodness.
They were convinced that the soul is not a substance, but a faculty which is born and which perishes with the body; consequently they had no yoke other than morality and honour.
Further on a faculty, which had not great faculties, issued a decree against innate ideas, and later a decree for innate ideas, without the said faculty being informed by its beadles what an idea is.
The author has the faculty of adapting herself to the tastes and ideas of her readers in an unusual way.
She has the happy faculty of blending enough real with romance to make her stories very practical for good without robbing them of any of their exciting interest.
In forming their stock of Certainties and Probabilities men employ the faculty of reason, faith in divine revelation, and enthusiasm (chh.
Which is all one as to say, that we might taste, smell, and see by the ears: a sort of philosophy worthy only of Sancho Panza, who had the faculty to see Dulcinea by hearsay.
Whereby it is evident, that the outward figure, which only was found wanting, and not the faculty of reason, which nobody could know would be wanting in its due season, was made essential to the human species.
If the eyes have lost the faculty of seeing, or the mind of perceiving, we in vain inquire after the quickness of sight in one, or clearness of perception in the other.
They thus rest their case on an appeal to the inherent laws of our conceptive faculty; mistaking, as I apprehend, for the laws of that faculty its acquired habits, grounded on the spontaneous tendencies of its uncultured state.
Others hold it to be a principle which, antecedently to any verification by experience, we are compelled by the constitution of our thinking faculty to assume as true.
The faculty of Harvard Medical School also spoke of him as one "who had done so much to render this school conspicuous and to make American surgery illustrious throughout the world.
Memory is not a distinct faculty of mind in the sense that one man is generously endowed in that respect while another is deficient.
Philosophical Faculty of Halle, in his “History of Israel.
And when again the Jesuits came forward in support of the papal verdict, the theological faculty of Lyons in A.
With less of the dialectic faculty than his master--though this too is shown in his 6 bks.
The theological faculty at =Bern= favoured mainly a liberal mediation theology, and an attempt of the orthodox party in 1847, to set aside the appointment of Professor E.
But he immediately refused to co-operate in restoring the Catholic theological faculty at Giessen, and the government consequently abandoned the idea.
But only the Bishop of Fulda followed this advice, with the result that the Catholic theological faculty at Marburg was after a short career closed again, and the education of the priests given over to the seminary at Fulda.
The Lutheran theological faculty at Strassburg with its vigorous unconfessional science represents the westernmost school of Schleiermacher’s theology.
Much was done, too, for the elevation of the evangelical theological faculty in Vienna by bringing able scholars from Germany, by giving a right to the promotion to the degree of doctor of theology, etc.
He is not able to do so because he does not think of it; he does not think of it because he is devoid of the faculty attributed to him, in order to support its thesis, by the dangerous prodigality of transformism.
Where sounds are lacking, of what use is the faculty of discerning them?
Neither as citizens nor as soldiers do they retain the faculty of dumb, dead submission which sustains them through every conceivable wrong while enslaved.
The Trustees andFaculty of the college, the cadets of the Military Institute, and the citizens, followed in procession.
Mr. Everett possessed in a remarkable degree the faculty of making those around him both respect and like him, and ere six weeks had passed, he had won the love of all his pupils.
Ridgely, in that year, delivered a course of lectures to a small class, and, as the organization of the faculty had not been completed, no further attempts at teaching were made.
Single lines and passages declare, indeed, abundantly his vital poetic faculty and instinct.
It is interesting to watch the newly-awakened literary faculty in Keats thus exercising itself in the narrow circle of personal sensation, and on the description of the objects immediately before his eyes.
These his keen perception and insight continually employed as the basis for hypotheses, which in turn he tested with an experimental skill and critical faculty rarely equalled and probably never surpassed.
In some universities the head of a faculty is called "dean," and in each of these cases the word is used in a non-ecclesiastical and purely titular sense.
Seldom is a strong imagination coupled with so unsparing a criticism as that which he applied to the materials on which the constructive faculty had to work.
The French novelists, be their faculty of invention greater or less, at any rate studied their characters with more care than English writers had usually shown.
It might almost have been called an artist's mind, capable of deep meditation, but meditating in an imaginative way, not so much on facts as on its own views of facts, on the pictures which its own creative faculty had called up.
He was, however, also Regius Professor of History at Oxford during the last eight years of his life, and thus the head of the historical faculty in his own university which he dearly loved.
His imagination visualised, so to speak, the phenomena as in a picture; his speculative faculty tried to harmonise them, measure them, and forecast their effects.
Think again of the organising faculty that our games develop.
As this faculty of discerning hidden meanings and relations was one index and consequence of his imaginative power, so another was found in that artistic gift to which I have referred.
They have the faculty of throwing the whole stress of their natures into the pursuit of one object, fixing their eyes on it alone, sacrificing to it other desires, clinging to it even when it seems unattainable.
And, indeed, this hope is already assured to us in the fact that the faculty has begun to criticise itself, to distinguish between an erroneous and a true form of its-operation.
Nevertheless, we may hope that, with the advance of social development, the faculty is continually gaining in precision and certainty.
As the Japanese language shows, every faculty of man was subordinated to this idea.
But Friedrich's difficulties on this course are not the thing that can interest readers; and all readers know his faculty for overcoming difficulties.
Of our dear Wilhelmina's high and unfortunate Daughter there should be some Biography; and there will surely, if a man of sympathy and faculty pass that way; but there is not hitherto.
And labored at it with such continual industry, rapidity and faculty for guiding and pushing, as all readers have known in him, on dangerous emergencies: at no moment lifting his hand from it till it was complete.
And you must remember he was a finished artist in that peculiar way, he was a gifted poor devil with the faculty of swift and forestalling vision.
He left his earthly failings behind him and what sort of reputation he had, and there was a totally new set of conditions for his imaginative faculty to work upon.
He, on his side, had that faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.
You have a mind of unusual vigor, and a good faculty in expressing your thought.
He was one of those single-hearted, resolute fellows, who have the greatest faculty for persistently blundering under an honest but wrong impression.
They court the human understanding and offer a continual challenge to that faculty which alone distinguishes humanity from the beasts.
He is said to possess the faculty of leaving one thing and taking up another whenever he wills.
All men have in their time burned and scraped and fashioned all they needed with an astonishing facultyof making it answer their needs.
Scientific men will recognize in this the highest praise which can be bestowed, because it attributes to him the highest faculty - The Art of Seeing; but the study and the book would not have given that.
In the contest of the college with the State, he and the late venerable Professor Adams, with the president, constituted the permanentFaculty for instruction and government.
Hubbard, professor of Chemistry, while in 1838 a great change was made in the Medical Faculty by the resignation of all the lecturers except Professor Hubbard.
Elisha Payne, an early and honored Trustee, of the Trustees and Faculty of the college, and the courteous liberality of the publishers.
Having ascertained that the Faculty would readily try the experiment of a change, although but two of them were convinced of its utility, they set aside the existing system of exhibitions, prizes, assignments, etc.
They shall also appoint a Faculty of instruction, prescribe their duties, and invest them with such powers for the immediate government and management of the institution as they may deem most conducive to its best interests.
The Faculty was also strengthened by the appointment of Rufus Graves, Esq.
It was determined that the Medical Facultyshould henceforth consist of: "1.
They enjoined it upon the Faculty to abide by the new system, and to keep its principle inviolate in the college discipline.
At the period of the founding of Dartmouth, we find that, in Yale College, the Facultyconsisted of Dr.
The Faculty at once found their administration relieved, simplified, and greatly facilitated in general.
Upham was one of its honored Faculty for more than forty years.
The tired body responds so thoroughly to the gentle touch of slumber that the latter becomes a magician capable of restoring every faculty to complete power.
Then I perceived what afforded me so severe a shock that I ducked hastily down into my covert, every faculty instantly alert.
There is in, us a lack of the synthetic faculty which distinguishes things that are important from those that are not.
Prompted by innate curiosity I read very much, and as I have the faculty of assimilating what I read, I may say that I derived considerable benefit from it and am able to keep step with every intellectual movement of the time.
