apperceive
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Education is especially valuable, in fact, in that it so adds to the experience of the child that he may more fully apperceive his surroundings.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Their works have become types through which we apperceive and appreciate the world: we see French landscapes as Lorrain and Corot saw them, peasants after the fashion of Millet, the stage after Degas.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
I cannot but think that to apperceive your pupil as a little sensitive, impulsive, associative, and reactive organism, partly fated and partly free, will lead to a better intelligence of all his ways.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James
When they were come, they instantly ran over the things that were in my memory, but, owing to their promptness, I was unable to apperceive what they observed.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
People apperceive, think, and feel as these three teach them, and finally it becomes second nature to follow this line of least resistance, and to seek intellectual conformity.
From Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students by Hans Gustav Adolf Gross
Hence they apperceived that I was in the truth, and I was admitted to converse with them.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
Thus, for example, newly formed representations are apperceived by the existing older ones, but the highest apperceiver is not, in turn, itself apperceived.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Thus the columns of a temple represent upward movement, and are apperceived as striving upwards so as to resist the downward pressure of the entablature.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
Their speech, being of many together, was apperceived as undulatory, and, what was remarkable, it glided towards my left eye, although they were to the right.
From Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg
When Johnny is as sure it is his father as if he could see his face close beside him he has apperceived him.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
The only novelty that I can imagine this course of lectures to possess lies in the breadth of the apperceiving mass.
From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by William James
In an act of memory, therefore, the new presentation, like all new presentations, must be interpreted in terms of past experience, or by an apperceiving act of attention.
From Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education by Ontario. Ministry of Education
The choices which determine the universe of maturity are often made in youth; then the foundations are laid of that apperceiving mass which is to condition all the man's contacts with reality.
From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Evelyn Underhill
And this translation is not the result of an unusual, artificial attitude assumed for the sake of aesthetic appreciation; it is the natural mode of apperceiving force and mass.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
The process of apperceiving or of assimilation may involve it.
From How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer
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