 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 oldal
...he had much less pleasure in reading than in thinking. " If I had read," he was accustomed to say, " as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." But similar political cireumstances invariably reproduce similar philosophical theories ; and it is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 oldal
...he had much less pleasure in reading than in thinking. " If I had read," he was accustomed to say, " as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." But similar political circumstances invariably reproduce similar philosophical theories ; and it is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 oldal
...he had much less pleasure in reading than in thinking. " If I had read," he was accustomed to say, " as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." But similar political circumstances invariably reproduce similar philosophical theories ; and it is... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1835 - 206 oldal
...observes that, " his custom was mult tint potius quam multa legere ;" and Bobber, with a pithy sarcasm, said, " if I had read as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." When morals sway, religion lives or dies, And cited principles to action rise. — Oh ! thou o'er whom... | |
 | 1845 - 864 oldal
...He used to say, in his strong paradoxical style, by way of enforcing the value of reflection — ' If I had read as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are.' Oudworth (born 1617, died 1688) was the prime antagonist of Hobbes. His great object was to tear up... | |
 | 1845 - 440 oldal
...He used to say, in his strong paradoxical style, by way of enforcing the value of reflection — ' If I had read as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they arc.' Cudworth (born 1617, died 1688) was the prime antagonist of Hobbes. His great object was to tear... | |
 | James Spear Loring - 1852 - 720 oldal
...and would reply to his detractors in the language of Hobbes, a truly learned English philosopher, ' If I had read as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are.' The dramatic terror inspired by the election of military chiefs to the presidency must rapidly pass away,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 oldal
...had much less pleasure in reading than in thinking. " If I had read," lie was accustomed to say, " as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." — [If, however, the reading of Hobbes was not extensive, it is probable that his favourite authors... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 oldal
...he had much less pleasure in reading than in thinking. " If I had read," he was accustomed to say, " as much as some others, I should have been as ignorant as they are." — [If, however, the reading of Hobbes was not extensive, it is probable that his favourite authors... | |
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... adopted from a wish to flatter the uncontrolled passions of sovereigns. Not that I am disposed to call in question the originality of Hobbes; for it appears, from the testimony of all his friends, that he had much less pleasure in reading than in... 