 Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time.  Lion - Sivu 1701828Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | William Dexter Wilson - 1856 - 464 sivua
...taken, we may say further that his doctrine directly contradicts the old axiom, " it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." For suppose S is not P and P not taken as a whole, the sphere of P as of any term is determined by... | |
 | William Andrew Smith - 1856 - 352 sivua
...truth ? that the good always will be the good ? That two and two are equal to four ; that to affirm a thing to be and not to be at the same time is an absurdity and a contradiction ; and that things equal to one and the same thing are equal to... | |
 | Theodore Dehon - 1856 - 536 sivua
...the evidences of the truth of Christianity. It is an incontrovertible axiom that it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. JSTo man, therefore, who has concluded that the balance of evidence is so far in favour of Christ as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 sivua
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | 1903 - 402 sivua
...are absolutely impossible, and others which are only so, ex parte. As, 'tis absolutely impossible for a thing to be and not to be, at the same time : but, for a stone to move naturally upward, is only impossible ex parte materia ; but it is not impossible... | |
 | John Clark Murray - 1904 - 538 sivua
...has been perhaps more appropriately called, is expressed in the popular formula, It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, sometimes in the technical formula, A is not non-A. The purport of the law may be more clearly indicated... | |
 | 1904 - 214 sivua
...one. — Seneca. Evening. It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 470 sivua
...shall lose your own. . . . It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." * Thus the transference of man from a jurisdiction external and arbitrary to the direct and inviolable... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1904 - 552 sivua
...shall lose your own. . . . It is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." ' Thus the transference of man from a jurisdiction external and arbitrary to the direct and inviolable... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 sivua
...they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
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