 | James Mackintosh - 1792 - 398 pages
...influence on the other. But that bulwark is now levelled with the ground. — The eon visions of philofbphy infinuate themfelves by a flow, but certain progrefs,...circuitous channels to the fhop and the hamlet. The converfion of thefe works of unproductive iplendor into latent ufe and unobferved activity, refembles... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn the people to ignorance, by reprobating superficial knowledge. The people cannot be profound ; but the...moral and political relations of man are at no great distance from the surface." — Mackintosh's ^indicia Gallica, pp. 110-123. AMERICA. " La constitution... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 618 pages
...is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn the people to ignorance by reprobating superficial knowledge. The people cannot be profound ; but the...moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by the... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn tb« people to ignprance by reprobating superficial knowledge. 'The people cannot be profound; but the...moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance froga the surface. • Ths great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...immediately connected with the business of human life Y " The people (as an eloquent writer observes) cannot be profound ; but the truths which regulate...moral and political relations of man are at no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 502 pages
...immediately connected with the business of human life ? " The people," as an eloquent writer observes, " cannot be profound, but the truths which regulate...moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by the... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1856 - 512 pages
...business of human life ? " The people," as an eloquent writer observes, " cannot be profound, but tbe truths which regulate the moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by the... | |
 | John Wilson - English language - 1857 - 196 pages
...reason. More was as really a martyr as Cranmer ; and he was much braver and more upright in conduct. The people cannot be profound ; but the truths which...moral and political relations of man are at no great distance from the surface. Let the jbEawing sentences be punctuated aqreeably to the preceding Rule... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1871 - 616 pages
...is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn the people to ignorance by reprobating superficial knowledge. The people cannot be profound; but the...moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are contained cannot be read by the... | |
 | William Leggo - Canada - 1878 - 946 pages
...the people is, and must ever remain, superficial. This, to a certain extent, cannot be denied. Still, the truths which regulate the moral and political relations of man are of no great distance from the surface. The great works in which discoveries are recorded cannot be... | |
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It is vain for the arrogance of learning to condemn the people to ignorance by reprobating superficial knowledge. The people cannot be profound ; but the truths which regulate the moral and political relations of man, are at no great distance from the... 
