| Bibliography - 1739 - 480 pages
...intenfe View (fays he) of thefe manifold *« Contradictions and Imperfections in human Rea" fon,* has fo wrought upon me, and heated my «« Brain, that I am ready to reject all Belief and * The Reader who will confult the Original, will find a Cull Reprefentation of thefe in the Paragraphs... | |
| James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
..." The intenfe view of thefe manifold contradictions •* and imperfections in human reafon, has fo wrought " upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to re" je'ft all belief and reafoning, and can look upon no " opinion even as more probable or likely... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Knowledge, Theory of - 1803 - 238 pages
...has fo wrought upon " me, and heated my brain, that I am rea" dy to reject all belief and reafoning, and " can look upon no opinion even as more " probable or likely than another." Under thefe difcouragements to this branch of ftudy, it affords fome comfort to reflect on... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...selves, or talk without a meaning. The intense view of these mani" fold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon " me, and heated...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. " Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to " what condition... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1808 - 690 pages
...without a meaning. — The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in • buman reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain,...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall... | |
| Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...lives." Life of Gibbon, 4to, p. 66. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfection* in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief ana reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." A Letter... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...producing scepticism with respect to all of them alike. How melancholy is the confession of Hume ! — " The " intense view of these manifold contradictions...no opinion even as more " probable or likely than another." Under these discouragements to this branch of study, it affords us some comfort to reflect... | |
| Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...Mr. Hume, and Bishop Watson. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." A Letter of Hume'* quoted in D. Stewart's Life of Reid, 4to. p. 439. " I was early in life... | |
| Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...melancholy is the confession of Hume ! " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." Under these discouragements to this branch of study, it affords some comfort to reflect on... | |
| Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - Classical literature - 1822 - 614 pages
...— " The intenfe view of thefe " manifold contradictions and imperfections in " human reafon, has fo wrought upon me, and " heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all " belief and reafoning, and can look upon no " opinion even as more probable or likely than " another." Under thefe... | |
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