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" Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like other people in the common affairs of life. "
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 18
by Dugald Stewart - 1821
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Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, Daniela Coli - 2009 - 321 pages
..."Most fortunately it happens . . . [that] I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life. ... I may, nay I must yield to the current of nature . . . [in] blind submission" (T, 269). Just as...
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Scott's Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh

Ian Duncan - 2007 - 420 pages
...enter into them any farther. Here then I find myself absolutely and necessarily determin'd to live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life. (316) Intercourse with others, "the commerce and society of men" (317), supplies the substance of common...
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The Riddle of Hume's Treatise: Skepticism, Naturalism, and Irreligion

Paul Russell - 2008 - 442 pages
..."relax," and withdraw from the "intense view" suggested by skeptical reflections, then we must "live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life" (T, 1.4.7.10/269; compare EU, 12.23/160). In these circumstances, we cannot sustain our Pyrrhonism,...
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Pennsylvania School Journal, Volume 13

1864 - 322 pages
...and ridiculous that I cannot continue them. Here, then, I find myself absolutely determined to live, and talk, and act, like other people, in the common affairs of life." 15. But the mere knowledge that there is an external object — and this is all we gain by perception...
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Unitarian Review and Religious Magazine, Volume 18

Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1882 - 592 pages
...enter into them any further. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like other people in the common affairs of life." His universal and consistent scepticism is simply a final word of protest against the vanishing fictions...
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