 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." A sad exhibition this of the dignity and consolations of scepticism. But if Mr. Hume was... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1833 - 450 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther." A sad exhibition this of the dignity and consolations of scepticism. But if Mr. Hume was sometimes... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." A sad exhibition this of the dignity and consolations of scepticism. But if Mr. Hume was... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1841 - 336 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." Thus, in the philosophy of Hume, in its original and genuine form, nothing can be alleged... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...hours of amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act, like other... | |
 | 1846 - 608 pages
...four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." " Experience is a principle which makes us reason from causes and effects ; and 'tis the... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act like other... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther." J Now, sir, if you will only • Life, &c. p. 43. t Ibid. p. 59. t Treatise on Human Nature, i. 407.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." " Experience is a principle which makes us reason from causes and effects; and 'tis the same... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 pages
...four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further." " Experience is a principle which makes us reason from causes and effects ; and 'tis the... | |
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I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours... 
