 | William Spence Urquhart - 1919 - 762 pages
...our abstract speculations much as Hume did in the famous passage in The Treatise on Human Nature : ' I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I return to these speculations, they appear so cold, strained, and ridiculous that... | |
 | George Plimpton Adams - 1919 - 280 pages
...world which alone is livable is a fictitious and unreal one. No wonder does Hume say, "I dine, and play a 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 strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 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,... | |
 | Edgar Sheffield Brightman - 1925 - 300 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,... | |
 | David Hume - 1927 - 444 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,... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 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,... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 pages
...relaxing this bent of mind. or by some avocation, and lively impression of my tenses, which obliterrr all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours' annwment, I would return to these speculations,... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - 1999 - 452 pages
...since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose. ... 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... | |
 | Y. Masih - 1999 - 606 pages
...nature herself suffices to that purpose, and curse me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium...! dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained, and ridiculous... | |
 | James Fieser - 2005 - 468 pages
...other times, he judged very differently; very much so, indeed. "I dine," says he, "I play a game at back-gammon, 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, so strained, and so ridiculous,... | |
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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... 
