| Robert Blakey - 1848 - 546 páginas
...upon it. His own account of the origin and progress of the work is curious. He says in his Preface ; " Five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties which arose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1849 - 338 páginas
...investigations, which, after the lapse of nearly twenty years, ended in the publication of his Essay. ' Five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us,... | |
| John Locke - 1849 - 588 páginas
...considered it. Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...the difficulties that rose on every side. After we I VI THE EPISTLE TO THE READEB. had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution... | |
| Thomas Reid - 1850 - 522 páginas
...of his entering upon his Essay concerning Human Understanding: — "Five or six friends," says he, " meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had for a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer to a resolution of those doubts that perplexed... | |
| Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 páginas
...UNDERSTANDING. WERE it fit to trouble thee with the history of this essay, I should tell thee that five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that arose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without cS.ning airy nearer a resolution... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 páginas
...prefatory letter of his celebrated " Essay on the Human Understanding : " "I should tell thee that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...remote from this*, found themselves quickly at a stand from the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves without coming... | |
| Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 páginas
...trouble thee with the history of this Essay, 1 should tell thee, that five or six friends, meeting in my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote...themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that arose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves without coming any nearer a resolution of... | |
| 1853 - 444 páginas
...he s»ys :— " Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this essay, I should tell thee that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...difficulties that rose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of thqee doubts which perplexed us,... | |
| John Locke - 1853 - 588 páginas
...considered it. Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every sida After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 536 páginas
...considered it. Were it fit to trouble thee with the history uf this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing...every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, witheut coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts,... | |
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