 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 628 pages
...Bacon thinks fit to consider axioms, or such assertions as that the whole is greater than a part, and that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, as things which are to be suspected ? He also adds, that the purification of intellect in order to... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 622 pages
...affirmation or negation, is true; that the whole is greater than a part; that all beings desire good ; and that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at at the same time ; and a great number of others ; though these have been admitted by men in all ages... | |
 | Asia - 1833 - 604 pages
...however, change a little the topic of discourse ; for an you cannot get out of my mind the impression that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, you of course will not be able to convince me of its possibility. I would now fain ask you how it is... | |
 | Asiatic journal - 1838 - 1238 pages
...greater power over your mind than any other source whatever. You see that by induction you cannot prove that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, nor can you prove it by perception ; therefore, your proof is only from affirmation, which in this... | |
 | Anglo-Indian literature - 1838 - 430 pages
...And you do not deny that something is, and something is not ; and why, therefore, should you affirm that it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time, because you cannot conceive how it can be ? You seem to know neither being nor not being, yet you make... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Christian sects - 1844 - 756 pages
...of mankind." Sin is necessarily incidental to every probationary system. Until we upset the axiom, " That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same time," it is no derogation from Omnipotence to say, that it could not do things so contradictory as to convert... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Church statistics - 1844 - 762 pages
...of mankind." Sin is necessarily incidental to every probationary system. Until we upset the axiom, " That it is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be at the same lime," it is no derogation from Omnipotence to say, that it could not do things so contradictory as... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 458 pages
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes upon itself the guarantee... | |
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Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. 
