 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1861 - 816 pages
...adrift on the illimitable ocean of speculative doubt. " The intense view," says he, " of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason,...upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another."1 The Scottish philosophers have been stigmatized by the German and French idealists as "insular,"... | |
 | Education - 1864 - 272 pages
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections of human reason has so wrought upon and heated my brain that I am ready to reject all...existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favor shall I court and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? * * I am confounded with... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1864 - 520 pages
...dispute, contradiction, distraction. When I turn my eye inward, I find nothing but doubt and ignorance. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive...my existence, and to what condition shall I return t I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
 | Baptists - 1866 - 534 pages
...intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections of human reason has so wrought upon and heated my brain that I am ready to reject all...existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favor shall I court and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? . . . . I am confounded... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...circumstances or in other conditions. Hume had to say, that " the intense " view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections " in human reason...opinion even as more " probable or likely than another." The modern author is saved from all such contradictions; for if one set of experiences showed him that... | |
 | 1868 - 986 pages
...imperfections in human reason," " I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and to look upon no opinion as more probable or likely than another. Where am...favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 pages
...is with hesitation, and every new reflection makes me dread an error and absurdity in my reasoning. Where am I, or what ? From what causes do I derive...existence, and to what condition shall I return ? Whose favours shall I court ? and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have I... | |
 | England - 1869 - 796 pages
...these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, " he says, " and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...and can look upon no opinion even as more probable and likely than another. Where am I or what? From what cause do I derive my existence, and to what... | |
 | England - 1869 - 824 pages
...these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me," he saya, " and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all...and can look upon no opinion even as more probable and likely than another. Where am I or what? From what cause do I derive my existence, and to what... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...Where am I or what 1 From what cause do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I retvirn ? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me y and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me VI am confounded with all these... | |
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The intense view of these manifold contradictions and imperfections in human reason has so wrought upon me, and heated my brain, that I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another. 
