 | William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. sion of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras....merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | William Jackson - 1875 - 452 pages
...environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. sion of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras....merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Brownlow Maitland - 1878 - 264 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression...my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I drive, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my friends ; and when, after three... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 522 pages
...melancholy and delirium*, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impressions of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras....game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my frienks; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they... | |
 | University of Missouri - 1879 - 520 pages
...melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by .some avocation, and lively impressions of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras....game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my frienks; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they... | |
 | Samuel Spahr Laws - 1879 - 108 pages
...melancholy and delirium, either bj relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impressions of my senses, which "obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play n game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my fricnksj and when, after three or four hours*... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - 1880 - 398 pages
...darkness, and utterly depriv'd of the use of every member arid faculty." A "splenetic humour" is induced. " I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and...merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...environed with the deepest darkness, aud utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty ... I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1883 - 350 pages
...logical reductio ad absurdum. So Hume, unquestionably, regarded it himself. To quote his own words : " I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous... | |
 | Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison - 1885 - 268 pages
...further we carry our reflections. Carelessness and inattention alone can afford us any remedy. ... I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
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Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
