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of my looking on other people
look on me and see me look on her, and then let drop a tear or two, which do make my heart relent at this minute that I am writing this with great trouble of mind, for she is indeed my sacrifice, poor girle); and my wife did tell me in bed by the by of my looking on other people, and that the only way is to put things out of sight, and this I know she means by Deb., for she tells me that her Aunt was here on Monday, and she did tell her of her desire of parting with Deb., but in such kind terms on both sides that my wife is mightily taken with her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

of mental laws only one possible
Is effort?—Question left unanswered 88 CHAPTER V Definition of the Consciousness—The Relation Subject-Object Can thoughts be divided into subject and object?—This division cannot apply to the consciousness—Subject of cognition itself an object—James' opinion examined—Opinion that subject is spiritual substance and consciousness its faculty refuted 96 CHAPTER VI Definition of the Consciousness—Categories of the Understanding Principle of relativity doubted—Tables of categories: Aristotle, Kant, and Renouvier—Kantian idealism—Phenomenism of Berkeley examined and rejected—Argument of a priorists —The intelligence only an inactive consciousness—Huxley's epiphenomenal consciousness—Is the consciousness necessary?—Impossibility of answering this question 103 CHAPTER VII Definition of the Consciousness—The Separability of the Consciousness from its Object—Discussion of Idealism Can the consciousness be separated from its object?—Idealists consider the object a modality of the consciousness and thus inseparable, from it—Futility of this doctrine—Object can exist without consciousness 119 CHAPTER VIII Definition of the Consciousness—The Separation of the Consciousness from its object—The Unconscious Can ideas exist without consciousness?—No consciousness without an object—Can the consciousness die?—Enfeeblement of consciousness how accounted for—Doubling of consciousness in hysterics—Relations of physiological phenomena to consciousness—Consciousness cannot become unconscious and yet exist 126 CHAPTER IX Definitions of Psychology Difficulty of defining psychology—Definition by substance—Psychology not the science of the soul—Definition by enumeration: its error—Definition by method contradicts idea of consciousness—Externospection and introspection sometimes confused—Definition by content—Facts cannot be divided into those of consciousness and of unconsciousness—Descartes' definition of psychology insufficient—"Within and without" simile unanalogous—Definition by point of view—Inconsistencies of Ebbinghaus' contention—W. James' teleological theory—Definition by the peculiar nature of mental laws only one possible: why?
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

one may look out on plains
From almost any part of the town one may look out on plains where great herds of wild game are constantly in sight.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

of mere lads or of persons
As late as 1742 Captain John Hamilton reports the pressing of a lime-burner who was nearly blind, and 'a little old cobbler of 56, taken out of his stall rather it should seem for a pastime than service'; and letters of 1747 shew that the pressing of mere lads, or of persons not able-bodied, was a s
— from Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy by J. R. (Joseph Robson) Tanner

one man left of our party
"If there is one man left of our party, he is going to sail that boat into the harbor."
— from The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England by Harry Castlemon

or more leaves or other parts
Three or more leaves or other parts encircling a stem at about the same point.
— from Common Trees of Pennsylvania by J. E. Aughenbaugh

of my life out of pure
"As for me," I declared, "I shall eat fish every day of my life out of pure gratitude."
— from Under the Andes by Rex Stout


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