 In general, their existence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection. To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 190by Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Norm Ledgin - 2000 - 284 pages
...ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Jefferson's lack of clarity and his ambiguities on such points must also be placed side by side with... | |
 | Marvin Kitman - 2001 - 300 pages
...must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does...not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course." These notions are perhaps still widely respected today in the anthropology department at the University... | |
 | Paul Finkelman - 316 pages
...ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory... | |
 | Mason I. Lowance - 572 pages
...must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does...not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory... | |
 | Elaine Brown - 2003 - 404 pages
...must be ascribed theit dispositlan to sleep when abstracted frum theit diverslans, and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect must be disposed to sleep of course. "12 In his determined pursuit to validate his own and his country's enslavement of blacks, Jefferson... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - 2004 - 1032 pages
...must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me that in memory... | |
 | Michel Butor - 2004 - 340 pages
...must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect must be disposed to sleep of course . . ." ". . . Without meaning to give you trouble, perhaps it might be practicable for you, in your... | |
 | Benjamin Isaac - 2004 - 596 pages
...Blacks "have a disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course." This example from Jefferson is more instructive than that of Himmler, since Jefferson combined such... | |
 | John Allen - 2004 - 208 pages
...must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labor. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect must be disposed "In My Father's House are Many Mansions" 35 to sleep of course" (182). Although this appears several... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 pages
...ascribed their disposition to sleep when abstracted from their diversions, and unemployed in labour. An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course. Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory... | |
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