 | 1847 - 782 pages
...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 fo what, condition shall I return ? lam confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself... | |
 | John Cumming - 1849 - 190 pages
...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? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 684 pages
...dispute, contradiction, and distraction. When I turn my eye inward, Ifind 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 tnese questions, and b«gin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 964 pages
...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 9 I am confounded with tnese questions, and be164 gin to fancy myself in ihe moil deplorable condition... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1852 - 474 pages
...testimony and all 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...probable or likely than another. Where am I, or what 1 From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return '} Whose favour shall... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 832 pages
...adrift on the illimitable ocean of speculative doubt. " The intense view," says he, " of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason,...opinion even as more probable or likely than another." l The Scottish philosophers have been stigmatized by the German and French idealists as "insular,"... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...adrift on the illimitable ocean of speculative doubt. "The intense view," says he, " of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason,...opinion even as more probable or likely than another." * The Scottish philosophers have been stigmatized by the German and French idealists as " insular,"... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 468 pages
...rctracting, and condemning from my present feeling and experience. The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has...existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favor shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? and on whom have I any... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 452 pages
...instance of this in the following candid confession of Mr. Hume : — " The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has...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 - 1854 - 452 pages
...instance of this in the following candid confession of Mr. Hume: — "The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has...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,... | |
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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. 
