 | Dugald Stewart - Knowledge, Theory of - 1803 - 238 pages
...pure curiofity. There is no queftion " of importance, whofe decifion is not " comprized in the fcience of man ; and " there is none which can be decided...certainty, before we become " acquainted with that fcience." To prepare the way for the accomplimment of the defign fo forcibly recommended in the foregoing... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie - Classical literature - 1822 - 614 pages
...pure curiofity. There is no " queftion of importance, whofe decifion is not " comprized in the fcience of man ; and there. ". is none which can be decided with any cer" tainty, before we become .acquainted^ with *' that fcience." . • •;.... . , • ' To prepare... | |
 | David Hume - Ethics - 1826 - 508 pages
...may extend our conquests over all those sciences, which more intimately concern human life, and irtay afterwards proceed at leisure, to discover more fully...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, / we in effect propose a complete... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...oncemasters of, we may everywhere else hope for an easy victory. From this station we may extend our conquest over all those sciences which more intimately concern...which can be decided with any certainty before we bemore fully stated) on the mr,rit, of this juvenile work. I copy it from a private letter written... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...masters of, we may everywhere else hope for an easy victory. From this station we may extend our conquest over all those sciences which more intimately concern...which can be decided with any certainty before we bemore fully stated) on the merits of this juvenile work. I copy it from a private letter written by... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...masters of, we may everywhere else hope for an easy victory. From this station we may extend our conquest over all those sciences which more intimately concern...which can be decided with any certainty before we bemore fully stated) on the merits of this juvenile work. I copy it from a private letter written by... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...station we may extend our conquests over all those sciences which more intimately concern human life, and 'afterwards proceed at leisure to discover more fully...certainty before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a com píete... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...human life, and may afterwards proceed at leisure to discover more fully those which are theobjectsof pure curiosity. There is no question of importance...the design so forcibly recommended in the foregoing quota! ion — by exemplifying, in an analysis of our most important intellectual and active principles,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Cognitive science - 1848 - 584 pages
...tastes and sentiments ; and politics consider men as united in society and dependent on each other. Here then is the only expedient from which we can...certainty before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending therefore to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a complete... | |
 | Patrick Campbell Macdougall - Philosophy - 1852 - 358 pages
...centre of these sciences, to human nature itself, which, being once masters of, we may every where else hope for an easy victory. From this station we...certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a complete... | |
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There is no question of importance, whose decision is not comprised in the science of man; and there is none, which can be decided with any certainty, before we become acquainted with that science. In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of... 
