When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make ? If we take in our hand any volume ; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number... Essays and treatises on several subjects - الصفحة 165بواسطة David Hume - 1817عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| John Burley Waring - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...thinkers Scotland, or even the world, has ever produced, quotes this from his " Essays." " If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it can contain nothing... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...which it contains. "If we take in our hand," says Hume, " any volume of divinity or school-metaphysics, for instance ; let us ask, does it contain any abstract...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact or existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames ; for it can contain nothing... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 432
...metaphysics as he saw them in connection with dogmatic theology. First, for his fiery anathema : — • " When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames : For it can contain nothing... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...metaphysics as he saw them in connection with dogmatic theology. First, for his fiery anathema : — " When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence' No. Commit it then to the flames : For it can contain nothing... | |
| Thomas Henry Huxley - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 408
...attention of men who have work to do in the world. And ho thus ends one of his essays : — " If we take in hand any volume of Divinity, or school metaphysics,...abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Docs it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...advice, as he calls it, of Hume, — :" If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask. Does it contain any abstract...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...advice, as he calls it, of Hume, — " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysic for instance, let us ask. Does it contain any abstract...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing... | |
| Caroline Fairfield Corbin - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...metaphysics. He says, you will remember, ' If we take in hand any volume of divinity, or school metaphysics, let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning...number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence ? No. Commit it, then, to the flames, for it can contain nothing... | |
| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...— " If we take in hand any volume of divinity or school mctaphysic for instance, let us ask. Docs it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity...number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matters of fact and existence ? No. Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing... | |
| William Jackson - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 452
...metaphysics as he saw them in connection with dogmatic theology. First, for his fiery anathema:— " When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles,...metaphysics, for instance, let us ask, Does it contain any alxtract reasoning concerning quantity or number ? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning... | |
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