 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 pages
...branches of knowledge where vogue dans toute 1'Allemagne, que ceui imagination has no influence over the its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." . . . . " My right hand writes," says Locke, in another part of his Essay, " whilst my left hand is... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1855 - 650 pages
...the busy mind of man, to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; and to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1857 - 838 pages
...the things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of universal knowledge, to raise questions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 496 pages
...they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us;' and thereby to ' prevail with the busy mind of man to be more...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.' And because a philosopher, having placed before himself an undertaking of this magnitude, and of this... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 500 pages
...they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us ;' and thereby to ' prevail with the busy mind of man to be more...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.' And because a philosopher, having placed before himself an undertaking of this magnitude, and of this... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...251 ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF THE UNDERSTANDING — USEFUL TO KNOW THE EXTENT OF OUR COMPREHENSION. If by this enquiry into the nature of the Understanding...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Education - 1866 - 900 pages
...whole treatise, chapters iii. and iv. throughout. 29. — LOCKE. (Essay, &c., Introd., § 4) : — " I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." — (Letter to Molyneux, 1693) : — " I own freely to you the weakness of my understanding : though... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - Deaf - 1866 - 1222 pages
...whole treatise, chapters iii. and iv. throughout. 29. — LOCKE. (Essay, &c., Introd., § 4) : — " I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." — (Letter to Molyneux, 1693): — "I own freely to you the weakness of my understanding : though... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1847 - 594 pages
...things ' which exceed its comprehension, to stop when it is at the ut' most extent of its tether, and sit down in a quiet ignorance of ' those things which...found to be beyond ' the reach of our capacities.' That this modest and quiet wisdom should be little acceptable to French eclectics or German transcendentalists... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...all, or that mankind hath no sufficient means to attain a certain knowledge of it. If, by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
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If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach; to what things they are in any degree proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man... 
