 | Thomas Reid - 1810 - 502 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried hy reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...absolutely incapable of instruction : those who had D d 4 little 424 OF THE HUA1AN MIND. [ctlAP. & little knowledge of human life, and of the manners and... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1818 - 466 pages
...diseourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of what is told them. Sueh distrust and ineredulity would deprive us of the greatest benefits of soeiety, and plaee us in... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 350 pages
...until it was examined and tried hy reason ; and most men would he unahle to find reasons for helieving the thousandth part of what is told them. Such distrust and incredulity would deprive us of the greatest henefits of society, and place us in a worse condition than that of savages. Children, on this supposition,... | |
 | Esek Cowen, Nicholas Hill - 1839 - 906 pages
...discourse would be believed until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...place us in a worse condition than that of savages. And, as in many instances, reason, in her greatest maturity, borrows aid from testimony ; so in others,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...incredulity would deprive us of the greatest benefits of •ociety, and place us in a worse condition than that of savages. Children, on this supposition, would... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1866 - 756 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...incapable of instruction ; those who had little knowledge pf human life, and of the manners and characters of men, would be in the next degree incredulous ;... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1876 - 762 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...of savages. Children, on this supposition, would be absoLAW OF EVIDENCE. influenced by their accordance with facts previously known or believed ; and this... | |
 | William J. Henry, William Logan Harris - 1879 - 534 pages
...discourse would be believed until it was examined and tried by reason, and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of what is told them. Such distrust and incredulity wonld deprive us of the greatest benefits of society and place us in a worse condition than that of... | |
 | Simon Greenleaf - 1892 - 888 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...us of the greatest benefits of society, and place ns in a worse condition than that of savages. Children, on this supposition, would be absolutely incredulous,... | |
 | John Pitt Taylor - 1895 - 894 pages
...discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason: and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of...incredulity would deprive us of the greatest benefits 01 society, and place us in a worse condition than that of savages. Children, on this supposition,... | |
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If it was not so, no proposition that is uttered in discourse would be believed, until it was examined and tried by reason ; and most men would be unable to find reasons for believing the thousandth part of what is told them. 
