 | Abraham Tucker - Philosophy - 1807 - 596 pages
...my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right and wrong; my love of retirement has furnished me with continual leisure,...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment. The service therefore I am to do must flow from this exercise or none at all. I pretend, however, to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 520 pages
...fortune, abilities, and character gave him full pretensions. " My thoughts," says Mr. Tucker of himself, M have "taken a turn, from my earliest youth, towards...Mawbey began to exercise his talent for poetry by a ballad on- the occasion, in which he introduced Mr. Tucker- and :,atfaer gentlemen who differed from... | |
 | Abraham Tucker - Philosophy - 1831 - 518 pages
...taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of VOL. i. 1 right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." The account which I am about to give of the most important events of his life, (if any events can be... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1832 - 340 pages
...philosopher in the ridicule to which his physiological hypothesis is liable.* Thus, for the Hartleian has furnished me with continual leisure; and the exercise of my reason has been my daily employment. * Light of Nature, I. c. xviii. of which the conclusion may be pointed out as a specimen of perhaps... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Philosophy - 1834 - 316 pages
...laken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching ' into the foundations and measu res of riglit and wrong; my love for retirement has furnished me...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment. ' term Association he substitutes that of Translation, when he adopts the same theory of the principles... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1837 - 458 pages
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. "My thoughts," says he, " have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." humorist ; and at last rewarded, in a greater degree perhaps than by any other writer on mixed and... | |
 | Abraham Tucker, Sir Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay - Natural theology - 1837 - 702 pages
...turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right and wrong; mv love for retirement has furnished me with continual...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." The account which I am about to give of the most important events of his i/i'. (if any events can be... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Canada - 1846 - 614 pages
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, " have. taken a turn from my earliest youth towards...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." ridicule to which his physiological hypothesis is liable.* Thus, for the Hartleian term " association... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Ethics - 1848 - 630 pages
...taken n turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of Right ana Wrong; my love for retirement has furnished me with...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." have thrown many of his chapters into their proper form of essays, and these might havebeen compated,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 pages
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. "My thoughts," says he, "have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards...exercise of my reason has been my daily employment." lave thrown many of his chapters into their proper form of essays, and these might have Deen compared,... | |
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Perhaps no philosopher ever stated more justly, more naturally, or more modestly, than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, " have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right... 
