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 Collected Works of Dugald Stewart - Page 196by Dugald Stewart - 1854Full view - About this book
| Bibliography - 1739 - 480 pages
...intenfe View (fays he) of thefe manifold *« Contradictions and Imperfections in human Rea" fon,* has fo wrought upon me, and heated my «« Brain, that I am ready to reject all Belief and * The Reader who will confult the Original, will find a Cull Reprefentation of thefe in the Paragraphs... | |
| James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
..." The intenfe view of thefe manifold contradictions •* and imperfections in human reafon, has fo wrought " upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to re" je'ft all belief and reafoning, and can look upon no " opinion even as more probable or likely... | |
| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...object, we either contradict our" selves, or talk without a meaning. The intense view of these mani" fold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has...belief and reasoning, " and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. " Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive... | |
| James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...Nature, vol 1. p. 464, 465. t " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imper" fections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...belief and reasoning, and " can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than « not hear." of Human Nature, vol. lf, 46 6. " doubt whether... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1808 - 690 pages
...without a meaning. — The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in • buman reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain,...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my... | |
| Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...lives." Life of Gibbon, 4to, p. 66. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfection* in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief ana reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." A Letter... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...confession of Hume ! — " The " intense view of these manifold contradictions and imper" fections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and " heated...belief and " reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more " probable or likely than another." Under these discouragements to this branch of study,... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Judges - 1814 - 482 pages
...which re" sides in the external object, we either contradict ourselves, " or talk without a meaning The intense view of these " manifold contradictions...belief and reasoning, and can look upon " no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. " Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive... | |
| Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1822 - 432 pages
...effect of producing skepticism with respect to all of them alike. How melancholy is the confession of Hume ! " The intense view of these manifold contradictions...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." Under these discouragements to this branch of study,... | |
| Classical philology - 1822 - 428 pages
...individuals whose characters differed so widely as those of Mr. Gibbon, Mr. Hume, and Bishop Watson. " The intense view of these manifold contradictions...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another." A Letter of Hume'* quoted in D. Stewart's Life of Reid,... | |
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