 ... a great tortoise. But being again pressed to know what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied, something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children;...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 352by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Rae Langton - 1998 - 254 pages
...what gave support to the broad-back'd Tortoise replied, something, he knew not what. And thus here ... we talk like Children; who, being questioned, what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer. That it is something; which in truth signifies... | |
 | Michael Tooley - 1999 - 412 pages
...is therefore unknowable — 'And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children, who being questioned what such a thing is, which 'hey know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something; which in turn signifies... | |
 | Michael Ayers - 1999 - 68 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases, where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children; who, being questioned, what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something; which in truth signifies... | |
 | C. J. McCracken, I. C. Tipton - 2000 - 314 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children who, being questioned what such a thing is which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something; which in truth signifies... | |
 | Andrew Bailey - 2002 - 1002 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children; who, being questioned what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something: which in truth signifies... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children ; who being questioned what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something: which in truth signifies... | |
 | William S. Sahakian, Mabel Lewis Sahakian - 1966 - 204 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children; who, being questioned what such a thing is which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something; which in truth signifies... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - 2007 - 295 pages
...content. He compares us to children who, when asked what it is that underpins the perceptible world, 'readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is...know not what; and that the thing they pretend to know, and talk of, is what they have no distinct idea of at all, and so are perfectly ignorant of it,... | |
 | Lex Newman - 2007 - 18 pages
...distinct Ideas, we talk like Children,who being questioned what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, That it is...know not what; and that the thing they pretend to know and talk of, is what they have no distinct Idea of at all, and so are perfectly ignorant of it,... | |
 | 1921 - 710 pages
...something, he knew not what. And thus here, as in all other cases where we use words without having clear and distinct ideas, we talk like children; who being questioned what such a thing is, which they know not, readily give this satisfactory answer, that it is something: which in truth signifies... | |
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