 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1852 - 470 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 - 1852 - 448 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 450 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 further. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act,... | |
 | 1854 - 496 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."—I. 331. But readers who know much of Hume will not waste their sympathy on his forlorn... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 454 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 further. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live, and talk, and act,... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 468 pages
...four hours' amusement, I would rcturn to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any further. determined to live, and talk, and act like other people in the common affairs of life. But... | |
 | 1854 - 482 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."— I. 331. But readers who know much of Hume will not waste their sympathy on his forlorn... | |
 | 1868 - 986 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." Still, however, to doubt he will firmly cling, adding, " In all the incidents of life, we... | |
 | 1869 - 796 pages
...or four hours' amusement, 1 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. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like... | |
 | 1869 - 824 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. Here, then, I find myself absolutely and necessarily determined to live and talk and act like... | |
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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... 
