 When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number...  Essays and treatises on several subjects - Стр. 165авторы: David Hume - 1817Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Bascom - 1871 - Страниц: 338
...entire truth that called it into existence. He gives echo to these words of Hume : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter-of-fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 318
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 780
...then he quotes the following passage from his great master and teacher, David Hume—" If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames; for it can contain nothing... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1871 - Страниц: 528
...English skeptic quoted by the same authority with fullest endorsement, who says : " If we take in haud any volume of divinity or school metaphysics for instance,...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact or existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it contains nothing... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 308
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And thus ends one of his essays : " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number 1 No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence 1 No. Commit... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 636
...politics of the moon. Let us be guided rather by the " mast wise advice " of David Hume . " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number t No. Doei it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence f No. Commit... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 800
...unbounded contempt. Thus he says, in a passage quoted with approbation and delight by Professor Huxley, ' If we take in our hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, let us ask, does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - Страниц: 578
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And he thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames ; for it can contain nothing... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 572
...: " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Doa it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reaioning concerning matter of fact and existence f — No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - Страниц: 558
...the .attention of men who have work to do in the world. He then quotes Hume saying : " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Dots it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental... | |
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