 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1882 - 592 pages
...260. t Id., p. 298. absurdum. So Hume, unquestionably, regarded it himself. To quote his own words : " I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous... | |
 | Salem Wilder - 1886 - 368 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, 1 play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1886 - 264 pages
...(See the Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, section ix.) 2 In a letter to Gilbert Elliot. « game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous,... | |
 | David Hume - 1888 - 752 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | David Hume - 1890 - 598 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return SECT. to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1892 - 760 pages
...as "philosophical melancholy and delirium," as "clouds to be dispelled" (Treatise I, 501). He writes "I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and...merry with my friends : and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | David Hume - 1893 - 190 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind or by some avocation and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of the mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of the mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | David Hume - 1896 - 744 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of*-<---<*c'* , back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four... | |
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Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
