 | Victor Cousin - 1853 - 444 pages
...eighteenth century ? We will let Locke speak for himself; in his preface he expresses himself thus: fnto my thoughts that we took a wrong course ; and that...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon... | |
 | 1853 - 444 pages
...perplexed us, it came into my thought« thai we took a wrong course ; and that, before we set ourselves on inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ¡ and thereupon... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pages
...found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented, and thereupon... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, witheut coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 560 pages
...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong cotu-se, and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 pages
...conversation with some friends, in which, disputes growing warm, " after we had puzzled ourselves awhile, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with." The plan he himself laid down is as follows : " First, I shall inquire... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 pages
...friends, in which, disputes growing warm, " after we had puzzled ourselves awhile, without coining any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with." The plan he himself laid down is as follows : " First, I shall inquire... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 218 pages
...took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necesary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our Understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with" (Epistle). — "I thought that the first step towards satisfying... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1857 - 214 pages
...took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necesary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our Understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with" (Epistle). — "I thought that the first step towards satisfying... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 500 pages
...his inquiries because ' in discoursing on a subject very remote from this,' it came into his thoughts that ' before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.'* The following, from the first chapter of the first book, are a... | |
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I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming... 
