 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...fct ourfclves upon inquiries of that nature, it was neceffary to examine our own abilities, and fee what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I propofed to the company, vho all readily aflfented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...reason to think his time not ill-spent, even when he cannot much boast of any great acquisition. that that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...understandings were, or were not^ fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course ; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1808 - 346 pages
...with difficulties that rose on every side, it came into my thoughts that it was necessary previously to examine our own abilities, and see what objects...Understandings were or were not fitted to deal with. And this discourse, thus begun by chance, was continued by intreaty, written by incoherent parcels,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1811 - 622 pages
...which rose on every side. At last, says he, ' it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine s'hat objects our understandings trere and were not Jilted to deal icith.' It is impossible we think... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should... | |
 | John Locke - 1817 - 556 pages
...before we set ourselves upon enquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our owa b ilitics, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 518 pages
...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we look a wrong course ; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and bee what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal wiih. This I proposed to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1820 - 594 pages
...which rose on every side. At last, says he, ' it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine ;. .'iff objects our understandings were and tcere not fitted, to deal Kith? It is impossible we thmk... | |
 | English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course; and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented, and thereupon it was agreed that this should... | |
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... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course:... 
