 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1775 - 230 Seiten
...had too high notions, both of the force of the reafoning power in man, and of the art of fyllogiftn as its guide. Mere reafoning can carry us but a very...fciences. The relations of quantity are fo various, and fo fiifceptible of exact men. ruration, that long trains of accurate reafoning on that fiibject may be... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1779 - 570 Seiten
...and of the art of fyllogifin as its guide. Mere reafoning can carry us but a very little way in tnoft fubjects. By obfervation, and experiments properly...exception to this obfervation in the mathematical faiences. The relations of quantity are. fo various and fo fufceptible of exact menfuration, that long... | |
 | Edward Tatham (D.D.) - 1790 - 730 Seiten
...carry us but a very little way in moil * fubjedls. By obfervation and experiments properly con* dudted, the ftock of human knowledge may be enlarged * without...a mill who labours hard, but ' makes no progrefs. Ibid. p. 381. truths under more genera!, till they terminate in Axioms, which are the mojl general*... | |
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1807 - 530 Seiten
...the art of fyllogifm as its guide. Mere reafoning can carry us but a very little way in moft fubje&s. By obfervation, and experiments properly conducted,...relations of quantity are fo various and fo fufceptible of exacYmenfuration, that long trains of accurate reafoning on that fubject may be formed, and conclufions... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1813 - 536 Seiten
...properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round, like a, horse in a mill who labours hard but makes no progress. There is indeed an exception to this observation... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1822 - 432 Seiten
...human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with figour through a long life, would only carry a man round, like a horse in a mill, who labours hard, but makes no progress. There is indeed an exception to this observation... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 Seiten
...properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round like a horse in a mill, who labours hard, but makes no progress. There is indeed an exception to this observation... | |
 | Justin Brenan - 1839 - 236 Seiten
...liuman knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, supplied with vigor through a long life, would only carry a man round, like a horse in a mill, who labors hard, but makes no progress." Observe particularly the part that I have... | |
 | Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 Seiten
...properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round like a horse in a mill, who labours hard but makes no progress. — Dr. Reid's Appendix to Lord Kaims's Sketches,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1863 - 552 Seiten
...properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be enlarged without end ; but the power of reasoning alone, applied with vigour through a long life, would only carry a man round like a horse iu a mill, who labours hard but makes no progress. There is indeed an exception to this observation... | |
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... both of the force of the reasoning power in man, and of the art of syllogism as its guide. Mere reasoning can carry us but a very little way in most subjects. By observation, and experiments properly conducted, the stock of human knowledge may be... 
