 ... found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course,...  The Illustrated Magazine of Art - Page 1801853Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1894 - 692 pages
...perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course ; and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was^ necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects3 our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with. This I proposed to the company,... | |
 | Henry Clark Powell - 1896 - 524 pages
...taken in inquiries of a metaphysical nature, and that the course which ought to be taken was first " to examine our own abilities, and see what objects...understandings were or were not fitted to deal with," 2 this examination would now, at any rate, be vigorously prosecuted. And, indeed, the publication of... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course; and that before we set ourselves upon enquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own...understandings were or were not fitted to deal with. This fairly describes the scope of the essay, as an inquiry into the nature of the intellect and into the... | |
 | Edwin Proctor Robins - 1900 - 124 pages
...cit., \ 347, 11. thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that before we set ourselves upon enquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own...our understandings were or were not fitted to deal with."1 Modest as this method may seem, it is as dogmatic as the method it supplants. Reason cannot... | |
 | Harald Høffding - 1900 - 558 pages
...problems which they had proposed to themselves, it occurred to him that it might perhaps first be " necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what...understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with." In a copy of Locke's essay, which is in the possession of the British Museum, James Tyrell, Locke's... | |
 | James Mark Baldwin - 1901 - 684 pages
...Locke, ' it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine...understandings were or were not fitted to deal with' (Epistle to the Reader). In the introductory chapter he emphasizes in similar language the necessity... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pages
...perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon ublished here, forbidding women, of whatsoever quality, to go with naked breasts ; In proceeding to treat of the subject originally proposed, he found this matter increase upon his hands,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pages
...perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course, and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine...proposed to the company, who all readily assented." In proceeding to treat of the subject originally proposed, he found this matter increase upon his hands,... | |
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