 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to 1 Absalom, and Achitophel, part i. the company, who all readily assented ; and thereupon...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 600 pages
...by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves without coining any nearer to the resolution of those doubts which...supplied the torpedo-shock by asking questions like these — " Do you understand what you are talking about when you use this word and that ?" — " Do men... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Celebrities - 1876 - 526 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... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Celebrities - 1876 - 618 pages
...course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our abilities, and see what objects our understandings...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... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Philosophers - 1876 - 598 pages
...examine our abilities, and see what objects our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with. This proposed to the company, who all readily assented...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 Arnold - 1876 - 554 pages
...objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the comparty, 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 considered, which I set down against... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the com1 Absalom and Achitophel, Part I. • pany, 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 considered, which I set down against... | |
 | André Lefèvre - Philosophy - 1879 - 632 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 / had never before considered, which I set down against... | |
 | John Stoughton - Scientists - 1879 - 358 pages
...doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course ; and that before wo set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was...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 Fowler - Authors, English - 1880 - 222 pages
...and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our_own abilities, and see what objects our understandings...was agreed that this should be our first inquiry." This passage may servo not only to describe the occasion of Locke's Essay, but also to indicate the... | |
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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... 
