 | William Wilberforce - 1835 - 434 pages
...prostituted to the open attack of every principle of religion, both natural and revealed, " that he had always considered him, both in his life-time and since his death, as approaching- as neatly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pages
...Dr. Adam Smith, the intimate friend of Hume. Tlds writer, indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...his fast sermon, February 1782. is offended with Dr Adam Smith for saying that " Mr Hume approached as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as, perhaps, frail humanity will permit ;" and well he may be offended ; for, if this can be without aid from religion,... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 pages
...Dr. Adam Smith, the intimate friend of Hume. This writer, indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...Dr. Adam Smith, the intimate friend of Hume. This writer, indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1843 - 192 pages
...in writing. u Upon the whole, "he says,*4 1 have always considered him, [Hume,] both in his litetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature ot human frailty will permit." What a blasphemous sentence... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...— as he tells our children, if we place Hume in their hands — that Hume's character approached as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous...as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit ; and therefore there is hardly any portion of the work in which the professors of religion are mentioned,... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 566 pages
...greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime,...perhaps, the nature of human frailty will permit. Of any description of his character, his own account of it must form a material feature. The mere circumstance... | |
 | 1846 - 636 pages
...greatest depth of thought, and a capacity in every lespect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's edition, vol. ii., p. 267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
 | 1846 - 614 pages
...and old mutton, and thought, and a capacity in every respect the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' In Boswell's Hebridean Journal (Croker's Edition, vol. ii. p. '267) will be found some very just remarks... | |
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Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. 
