 It is very difficult to determine the precise meaning which our ancestors gave to discourse, or to distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than was supposed to be...  The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 51807Full view - About this book
 | Philip Massinger - English drama - 1805 - 540 pages
...day's single enemy. distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps, it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse, and we shall not miscall it, if .we name it reason.'1'' Whatever be the sense, it frequently... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 pages
...discourse; or to distinguish tlie line which separated it from rcaton. Perhaps, it indicated a mare rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...I speak with hesitation. The acute Glanville says, " ilie act of the mind which connects propositions, and dfdiiceth conclusions from them, the schools... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 546 pages
...day's single enemy. distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps, it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse^ and we shall not miscall it, if we name it reason.'' Whatever be the sense, it frequently... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1813 - 542 pages
...day's single enemy. distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps, it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse, and we shall not miscall it, if we name it reason." Whatever be the sense, it frequently... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1819 - 502 pages
...its literal acceptation of running about. FQ VI. viii. 14. Glanville has thus explained the word: " The act of the mind, which connects propositions and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse; and we shall not miscall it, if we name it reason." Todd's Diet. " What by an angell's donne... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 820 pages
...look beyond the obvious exteriors of things, will not be angry a our narrower explorations. Browne. The act of the mind which connects propositions, and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools calí cúcourse ; and we shall not miscall it, if we name it ГС1И>П- GtamiUe. Of various things... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 562 pages
...to discourse, or to distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse ; and we shall not miscall it, if we name it reason." Whatever be the sense, it frequently... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 406 pages
...to discourse, or to distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse ; and we shall not miscall it, if we name it reason." Whatever be the sense, it frequently... | |
 | Philip Massinger - 1830 - 396 pages
...to discourse, or to distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...The acute Glanville says, "The act of the mind which connecis propositions, and deduceth conclusions from them, the schools call discourse ; and we shall... | |
 | William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 654 pages
...to discourse, or to distinguish the line which separated it from reason. Perhaps it indicated a more rapid deduction of consequences from premises, than...be effected by reason: but I speak with hesitation. Whatever be the sense, it frequently appears in our old writers, by whom it is usually coupled with... | |
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