 | Hugh Miller - 1865 - 516 pages
...well-toned and accordant part, consistent with the barmony 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,... | |
 | 1866 - 850 pages
...soon right ourselves. It is said of Hume, who proved (on paper) the non-existence of matter and mind, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he...like daylight, dispelled the darkness and fogs of scepticism, and made him yield to the dominion of common sense. Lesser minds, then, may trust to the... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1867 - 692 pages
...his credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the Treatise on Ifuman Nature is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...retain his personal identity, till he reaped the honour ami reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen.' He continues further hi this strain, dragging... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1869 - 602 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 ho always true to it even in solitude ; for in solitude he wrote his admirable political essays,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1892 - 390 pages
...credulity. Vet I cannot imagine that the author of the ' ' Treatise of Human Nature" is so sceptical as to plead this apology. He believed, against his...honour and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumeH. Indeed, he ingeniously acknowledges, that it was only in solitude and retirement that he could... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1983 - 448 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, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - 1094 pages
...credulity. Yet I cannot imagine that the author of the " Treatise of Human Nature" is so sceptical , if I had no', believed what they told me, before...reason of my belief, I had to this day been little scepticism, and made him yield to the dominion of common sense. Nor did I ever hear him charged with... | |
 | Richard Henry Popkin - 1993 - 404 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...should retain his personal identity, till he reaped honor and reputation justly due to his metaphysical acumen. Indeed, he ingeniously acknowledges, that... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Derek R. Brookes - 2000 - 380 pages
...credulity. Yet I cannot imagine, that the author of the Treatise of human nature is so sceptical as 20 to plead this apology. He believed, against his principles,...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... | |
 | Philip De Bary - 2002 - 224 pages
...suggestion of this particular charge of inconsistency is present in Reid's claim that even Hume 'ingenuously acknowledges, that it was only in solitude and retirement...that he could yield any assent to his own philosophy' [102a]. That Reid is here referring quite strictly to Hume's failure to maintain assent to his own... | |
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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... 
