 | Thomas Reid - 1810 - 502 pages
...his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine, that the author of the Treatise of Human Nature is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...retain his personal identity, till he reaped the honour honour and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen. Indeed, he ingenuously acknowledges, that... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pages
...his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine, that the author of the Treatise of Human Nature is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...like day-light, dispelled the darkness and fogs of scepticism, and made him yield to the dominion of Common Sense. Nor did I ever hear him charged with... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 350 pages
...against his principles, that he should he read, and that he should retain his personal identity till l» reaped the honour and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen. Indeed, he ingenuously acknowledges, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could yield any assent... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pages
...credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the " Treatise of Human Nature" is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...justly due to his metaphysical acumen. Indeed [he ingenuously acknowledges, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could yield any assent... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...Yet 1 cannot imagine that the author of the " Treatise of Human Nature" is so sceptical as to p'ead this apology. He believed, against his principles,...retirement that he could yield any assent to his own philuBophy ; society, like day-light, dispelled the darkness and fogs of scepticism, and made him yield... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1853 - 282 pages
...credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the ' Treatise on Human Nature ' is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen." He continues further in this strain, dragging in the vulgar error about Pyrrho having inconsistently... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 482 pages
...disappoint him, or laugh at his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the Treatise on Human Nature is so skeptical as to plead this apology....should retain his personal identity, till he reaped the honor and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen." He continues further in this strain, dragging... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 838 pages
...disappoint him, or laugh at his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the Treatise on Human Nature is so skeptical as to plead this apology....read, and that he should retain his personal identity, till/he reaped the honor and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen." He continues further... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1862 - 532 pages
...well-toned and accordant part, consistent with the harmony of the whole. It was acknowledged by Hume, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could yield any assent to his own philosophy. Nor was he always true to it even in solitude ; for in solitude he wrote his admirable political essays,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1863 - 484 pages
...his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the Treatise on Human Nature is so sk'pticul as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...should retain his personal identity, till he reaped the honor and reputation justly Jue to his metaphysical acumen." He continues further in this etrain, dragging... | |
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... It may perhaps be unreasonable to complain of this conduct in an author who neither believes his own existence nor that of his reader; and therefore could not mean to disappoint him, or to laugh at his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author... 
