| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 448 pages
...confession of Mr. Hume : — " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me and heated...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion as more probable or likely than another."i Metaphysical studies, when carried to an excess, have, moreover,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...confession of Mr. Hume : — " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me and heated...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion as more probable or likely than another."1 Metaphysical studies, when carried to an excess, have, moreover,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 548 pages
...the confession of Hume ! — " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look 271 upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another."* Under these discouragements to... | |
| Edward Tagart - 1855 - 530 pages
...abandoned and disconsolate. Again, the intense view of the manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me and heated...belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion as even more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1858 - 556 pages
...the confession of Hume ! — " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...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... | |
| John Campbell (of Tolbooth church, Edinb.), John Gordon Lorimer (D.D.) - 1859 - 390 pages
...? 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 pages
...speculative doubt. " The intense view," says he, " of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason, has so wrought upon me, and heated...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,"... | |
| 1864 - 272 pages
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections of human reason has so wrought upon and heated my brain that I am ready to reject all...opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what ? From •what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return... | |
| James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...conditions. Hume had to say, that " the intense " view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections " in human reason has so wrought upon me and heated...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... | |
| 1866 - 534 pages
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections of human reason has so wrought upon and heated my brain that I am ready to reject all...opinion even as more probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return... | |
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