 | James Beattie - Truth - 1771 - 588 pages
...kind,"— that is, who feel and believe, that they have a foul, — *' I may venture to affirm of the reft of " mankind, that they are nothing but a " bundle or collection of different percep" tions, which fucceed each other with " inconceivable rapidity, and are* in a " perpetual flux... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...— that is, who feel and believe that they have a foul, — "I may ven" ture to affirm of the reft of mankind, that ** they are nothing but a bundle or collection ** of different perceptions, which iucceed •( (i each other with inconceivable rapidity y and are in a perpetual flux and movement.... | |
 | James Wilson - Law - 1804 - 494 pages
...matter ; he annihilates spirit as well as body ; and reduces mankind — I use his own words — to " a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement." " There is properly no simplicity... | |
 | George Walker - English fiction - 1814 - 284 pages
...principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, who believe they have a soul, I may venture to affirm, of the rest of mankind, that they are noihmg but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with inconceivable... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their... | |
 | Ritter - Philosophy - 1853 - 680 pages
...ипипгегЬгофепе Soí»árenj, wobei рф ber Oebanfe 1) Hum. net. I p. 361 sq.; 448 sqq. A bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity. 2) Ib. I p. 418 sqq. ; immort, of the soul p. 24. an eine иг[афНфе... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...am certain there is no such principle in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. . . . The mind is a kind of theatre,... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1855 - 650 pages
...It is a delusion, says Hume ; this belief is only a refined speculation of the metaphysicians : " I venture to affirm of the rest of mankind that they...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement The mind is a kind of theater, where... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1873 - 672 pages
...thing. This applies to mind as well as matter. Nothing .exists to us but our thoughts and feelings. We are " nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in perpetual flux and movement." C. Materialism in France during... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...am certain there is no such principle.in me. But setting aside some metaphysicians of this kind, I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that...different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. Our eyes cannot turn in their... | |
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I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement. 
