| Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 sivua
...cover to absurdity and error.* " Nay, says he, I flatter myself I have discovered an argurncrit, which will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and convquently, will be useful as Jong as the world endures." It is lamentable... | |
| 1804 - 994 sivua
...conclude any thing against the universal experience of ail men.! " Mr. Hume says, ' I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument, which, if just, will,...and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitioui delusion, and, consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures.1 He ihe« gives... | |
| David Hume - 1804 - 552 sivua
...their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself, that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of, superstitious delusion, and consequently will be useful as Jong as the world endures. For so long,... | |
| John Dick - 1811 - 302 sivua
...such reports to be false. This is the argument which Hume, with no great modesty, boasted, " would, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently would be useful as long as the world endures. For so long,... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 sivua
...strip him of his plumes. " I flatter myself," says he, in the commencement of his treatise, " that I have discovered an argument, which, if just, will...and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently will be useful as long as the world endures." And when writing... | |
| David Hume - 1826 - 628 sivua
...their impertinent solicitations. I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument of a like nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently will be useful as long as the world endures; for so long,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1835 - 598 sivua
...miracles. ' I flatter myself,' he says, ' that I have discovered an argument of a like [decisive] nature, which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious credulity, and consequently be useful as long as the world endures.' And the argument... | |
| 1835 - 612 sivua
...such reports to be false. This is the argument which Hume, with no great modesty, boasted, "would, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all .kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently would be useful as long as the world endures. For so long,... | |
| John Leland - 1837 - 784 sivua
...researches. And now he begins bis Essay on Miracles with declaring, that " he flatters himself that he has discovered an argument, which, if just, will, with...and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion ; and, consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures ; for so long,"... | |
| William Warburton - 1841 - 496 sivua
...modesty of his introduction and the decency of his conclusion. Thus he begins : - " I flatter myself that I have discovered an argument, which, if just, will...and learned be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and, consequently, will be useful as long as the world endures." (p. 174.)... | |
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