 | George Stuart Fullerton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1904 - 652 pages
...enemy who has not borrowed his arms from Aristotle or from his successors. " I dine," writes Hume,1 " I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Henry F. Henderson - Church of Scotland - 1905 - 296 pages
...still, he possessed the power of extracting joy from the simplest pleasures. "I dine," he tells us, "I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous,... | |
 | Franco-Scottish Society. Scottish Branch - 1909 - 956 pages
...sense, a man of the world. The closing words of the " Treatise " are characteristic of the man : " I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...merry with my friends ; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Robert Drew Hicks - Philosophy, Ancient - 1910 - 438 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. ... I may, nay I must yield to the current of nature in submitting... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Herbert Ernest Cushman - Philosophy - 1911 - 414 pages
...dispelling these clouds, nature suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. — No : If I must be a fool, as all who reason or believe anything certainly are, my follies shall... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 658 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind or by some avocation and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 670 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind or by some avocation and lively impression...merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained and ridiculous... | |
 | Richard Wilde Micou - Apologetics - 1916 - 528 pages
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - MORRIS, GEORGE SYLVESTER,1840-1889 - 1917 - 372 pages
...since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose. . . . I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when after two or three hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd,... | |
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Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
