 | 1806 - 614 pages
...conversation, and the way in which they treated any question of science or philosophy, one would say that Dr. Black dreaded nothing so much as error, and...beyond the truth, and the other of not reaching it. The curioiity of the latter was by much the most easily awakenened, and its impulse most powerful and imperious.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1806 - 582 pages
...science or philosophy, one would say that Dr. Black dreaded nothing so much as error, and that "Ht-. Hutton dreaded nothing so much as ignorance ; that...beyond the truth, and the other of not reaching it. The curiostty of the latter was by much the most easily awakenened, and its impulse most powerful and imperious.... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...conversation, and the way in which they treated any question of science or philosophy, one would say that Dr Black dreaded nothing so much as error, and...easily awakened, and its impulse most powerful and imperiovis. With the former, it was a desire which he could suspend and lay asleep for a time ; with... | |
 | James David Forbes - 1856 - 218 pages
...conversation, and the way in which they treated any question of science and philosophy, one would say that Dr Black dreaded nothing so much as error, and...reaching it. The curiosity of the latter was by much the more easily awakened, and its impulse most powerful and imperious. With the former, it was a desire... | |
 | John Rae - 1895 - 484 pages
...remarking that " Dr. Black hated nothing so much as error, and Dr. Hutton nothing so much as ignorance. The one was always afraid of going beyond the truth, and the other of not reaching it." He went little into general society, but Playfair says that in the more private circles which he preferred... | |
 | Sir William Ramsay - 1918 - 204 pages
...conversation, and the way in which they treated any question of science or philosophy, one would say that Dr. Black dreaded nothing so much as error, and...dreaded nothing so much as ignorance ; that the one was^always afraid of going beyond the truth, and the other of not reaching it. The curiosity of the... | |
 | 194 pages
...said of him, 'Dr Black hated nothing so much as error, and Dr Hutton nothing so much as ignorance. The one was always afraid of going beyond the truth, and the other of not reaching it.' Smith made Black and Hutton his literary executors, and shortly before his death, in his presence and... | |
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Great caution in his reasonings, and a coolness of head that even approached to indifference, were characteristic of Dr Black. On attending to their conversation, and the way in which they treated any question of science or philosophy, one would... 