 | Thomas Hill Green - 1885 - 580 pages
...comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book n. chap. xi. sec. 17.) Fe.'ling 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the and... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 340 pages
...understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut out from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas...of things without; would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there and be so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much... | |
 | David Hume - 1890 - 598 pages
...comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book II. chap. xi. sec. 17.) and felt philosophy which seeks the origin of knowledge in sensation,... | |
 | Karl M. Dallenbach, Madison Bentley, Edwin Garrigues Boring, Margaret Floy Washburn - 1892 - 638 pages
...11:2.—"These alone " • are the icindoics by which light is let into this dark room ; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." In this passage... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 pages
...Room. CHAP. XI. BOOK 11. are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For, methinks, the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly...some little openings left, to let in external visible l resemblances,or ideas of things without: [ 2 would the pictures coming into such a dark room but... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 604 pages
...alone, as far asT! can discover, are the window* by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures... | |
 | Thomas Hill Green - 1894 - 620 pages
...comparison of the understanding to a ' closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas, of things without.' (Book ii. chap. xi. sec. 17.) 22. Phraseology of this kind, the standing heritage of the philosophy... | |
 | James P. Munro - 1895 - 290 pages
...Essay. This, in its Prolegomena a: notes, is a mine of valuable and scholarly commentary. " Methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." 1 Upon this blankness,... | |
 | James Phinney Munroe - 1896 - 290 pages
...Essay. This, in its Prolegomena and notes, is a mine of valuable and scholarly commentary. " Methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without." 1 Upon this blankness,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 646 pages
...alone, as far as I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room. For methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures... | |
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the understanding is not much unlike a closet, wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left, to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without. Would the pictures coming into a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly... 
