Impressions

Examples

• The want of relation in the ideas breaks the relation of the impressions, and by such a separation prevents their mutual operation and influence. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Simple perceptions or impressions and ideas are such as admit of no distinction nor separation. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In measuring time we cannot rely on our inward impressions; we even criticize these impressions and spe ak of time as going slowly or quickly. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Ordinarily but a few moments, if the impressions are distinct. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The universe is composed of impressions, ideas, pleasures and pains! Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The double relation between the ideas and impressions subsists in both cases, and produces an easy transition from the one emotion to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The effect, then, of belief is to raise up a simple idea to an equality with our impressions, and bestow on it a like influence on the passions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• What farther proof can we desire for the double relation of impressions and ideas? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• These revived impressions succeeded each other quickly and dreamily in Lydgate's mind while the tea was being brewed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• By this double relation of impressions and ideas, a transition is made from the one impression to the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Senefelder, in his subsequent improvements, gave a slight relief to the letters by the original plan of using diluted aqua-fortis, by which means the impressions obtained were blacker. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Group impressions are also taken with the four fingers of each hand pressed down simultaneously. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• From this relation of impressions, and identity of ideas, the passion arises, according to my hypothesis. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The reflective impressions may be divided into two kinds, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ideas always represent the Objects or impressions, from which they are derived, and can never without a fiction represent or be applied to any other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This then is a sensible proof of the double relation of impressions and ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I esteem her, I admire her; and yet my impressions concerning her are harsh--perhaps uncharitable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I quite envy you the novelty: first impressions, you know, are so pleasant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I could see that her mind was too much occupied to feel the dreary impressions from without which had fastened themselves already on mine. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I ask the same question concerning the impressions of these tables; and find that the answer is no more satisfactory in one case than in the other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It is also valuable for transferring figures in embroidery and taking impressions of leaves for herbariums, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• It cannot, therefore, be from any of these impressions, or from any other, that the idea of self is derived; and consequently there is no such idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• And as the impressions of reflexion, viz. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• A similar process of embossing, was devised in Paris and called Xyloplasty, by which steam-softened wood is compressed in carved moulds, which give it bas-relief impressions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• That the case is the same with all our simple impressions and ideas, it is impossible to prove by a particular enumeration of them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• So that the impressions of reflexion are only antecedent to their correspondent ideas; but posterior to those of sensation, and derived from them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• All ideas are derived from, and represent impressions. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Mr. Rosedale was still at a stage in his social ascent when it was of importance to produce such impressions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• To confirm this we may observe, that there are three different kinds of impressions conveyed by the senses. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ideas always represent their objects or impressions; and vice versa, there are some objects necessary to give rise to every idea. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.

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