William Hamilton

Also known as William Franklin Hamilton, Red Hamilton

American athlete (1883-1955)

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Robert Pauncefort, and others, appellts. [vs.] Jane Mead, widow and only surviving executrix of John Mead, and others, respdents
Salute the Jew!
Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus : Lately Existing at Isernia, in the Kingdom of Naples; in Two Letters : One from Sir William Hamilton ... to Sir Joseph Banks ... : and the Other from a Person Residing at Isernia
Essays on the intellectual powers of man
The New Essence of Christianity

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“Analysis and synthesis, though commonly treated as two different methods, are, if properly understood, only the two necessary parts of the same method. Each is the relative and correlative of the other. Analysis, without a subsequent synthesis, is incomplete; it is a mean cut off from its end. Synthesis, without a previous analysis, is baseless; for synthesis receives from analysis the elements which it recomposes.”
“Be sober, and to doubt prepense,These are the sinews of good sense.”
“The primary principle of education is the determination of the pupil to self-activity — the doing nothing for him which he is able to do for himself.”
“Truth like a torch, the more 'tis shook, it shines.”
“The one condition under which all powers, and consequently the intellectual faculties, are developed, is exercise.”
“The question—Is Truth, or is the Mental Exercise in the pursuit of truth, the superior end?—this is perhaps the most curious theoretical, and certainly the most important practical, problem in the whole compass of philosophy.”