 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring...greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon wiU warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Conduct of life - 1855 - 466 pages
...those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry, and I think there is one unerring mark...assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." These weighty sentiments, so worthy to be carried with us in all our secular, and in all our moral... | |
 | Henry Latham - 1857 - 390 pages
...are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. LOCKE. 3. Grammatical Questions. (1) What cases are respectively governed by the following verbs :... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Faith - 1870 - 500 pages
...so. How a man may know, whether he be so, in earnest, is worth inquiry ; and I think, there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proof s it is built on -will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...amongst those who persuade themselves they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring...warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it ig plain, receives not truth in thelove of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other... | |
 | Henry Bleckly - Ethics - 1873 - 172 pages
...evidence, is invalid and erroneous." * Locke pointed out, as the mark of a sincere lover of truth, "the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built on will warrant;" and he adds — "Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...amongst those who persuade themselves they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring...not truth in the love of it ; loves not truth for truth's sake, but for some other by-end."— Arrant (Lat. errare, to wander ; O. Eng. errant, wandering,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 pages
...of it; viz., the not entertaining nny proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it inbuilt upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure...assent, it Is plain, receives not truth in the love ol' it; loves not truth for truth V sake, but for some other by-end."— Arrant (Lat. errart, to wander... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 560 pages
...amongst those who persuade themselves they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring...measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in thelove of it ; loves not truth for truth-sake, but for some other by-end."— (Euay on Hie Human Underitanding,b.... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Celebrities - 1876 - 616 pages
...whether he be so in earnest is worth inquiry ; and I think there is one unerring mark of it, namely, the not entertaining any proposition with greater...this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not the truth in the love of it — loves not truth for truth's sake — but for some other bye-end. For... | |
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I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it; loves... 
