The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. The R.I. Schoolmaster - Página 1691864Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1855 - 544 páginas
..." I am affrighted and confounded with that forlorn solitude in which I am placed by my philosophy. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive...my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? " Sincerely your friend, ELLEN ASHTON. —A SKETCH. H. A FEW evenings since, I attended a meeting... | |
| P. C. H. - 1856 - 84 páginas
...contradiction, and distraction ; when I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive...my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
| John Blakely - 1856 - 314 páginas
...turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. Where am I ? or what ? From what cause do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 páginas
...contradiction, and distraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt, and ignorance. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I,return? I am confounded with these questions, and b6gin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 páginas
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon DO opinion even as more probable or likely than another."* Under these discouragements to this branch... | |
| Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1859 - 428 páginas
...sense, as would at first appear. Speaking of his speculations, he says : " they have so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...I derive my existence, and to what condition shall 1 return 'I Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must 12 I dread ? What beings surround me,... | |
| John Campbell (of Tolbooth church, Edinb.), John Gordon Lorimer (D.D.) - 1859 - 390 páginas
...? The intense view of manifold contradictions, the infirmities in human reason, have so worked upon my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and...reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more likely and more probable than another. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence,... | |
| Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 páginas
...says he, " of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another."1 The Scottish philosophers have been stigmatized by the German and French idealists as "insular,"... | |
| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1864 - 520 páginas
...dispute, contradiction, distraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive...my existence, and to what condition shall I return t I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
| James McCosh - 1866 - 424 páginas
..." view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections " in human reason has so wrought upon me and heated " my brain, that I am ready to reject all...opinion even as more " probable or likely than another." The modern author is saved from all such contradictions; for if one set of experiences showed him that... | |
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