 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts on a subject I had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts on a subject 1 had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 610 pages
...pnzzled ourselves without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts, which perplexed us, it carne into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course, and...was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry." Such were the sentiments on this subject of a man, who has probably contributed more largely than any... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1832 - 622 pages
...was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were or were riot fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company,...was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry." Such were the sentiments on this subject of a man, who has probably contributed more largely than any... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1836 - 590 pages
...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coining any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...thereupon it was agreed, that this should be our first ihquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts, on a subject I had never before considered, which I set... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christianity - 1849 - 338 pages
...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...was agreed that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts on a subject I had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...After we I VI THE EPISTLE TO THE READEB. had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts, on a subject I had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1850 - 496 pages
...was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were fitted or not fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company,...was agreed that this should be our first inquiry." If this be commonly the cause of perplexity in those disquisitions which have least relation to the... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the'company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed, that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts, on a subject I had never before consideredj which I set down against... | |
 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 pages
...difficulties that arose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it...was agreed that this should be our first inquiry. Some hasty and undigested thoughts on a subject I had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
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After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course ; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary... 
