 ... tenets: which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous...  Philosophic Etymology: Or Rational Grammar - Page 242by James Gilchrist - 1816 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1823 - 510 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men. as men endued with true Science are above it. For between...and erroneous Doctrines, Ignorance is in the middle. Naturall sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itselfc cannot erre : and as men... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are above it. For, between...ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and imagination [concepiioii] are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err : and as men abound in copiousness... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...ignorant men, as men of true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature herself cannot err; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are above it. For between...science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the mid- PART i. dle. Natural sense and imagination are not sub- . 4• , ject to absurdity. Nature itself... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 428 pages
...(4) Hum. Nal. from their own. meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's counters, thy do but reckon by them ; but... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Literature, Modern - 1854 - 620 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's counters — they do but reckon by them... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. For between...doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and imai ie, twigs covered with bird-lime in order to eatch birds. NATURAL STATE OF MAN ONE OF WAR. 117... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. For between...doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and ima1 i. «., twigs covered with bird-lime in order to catch bird:. NATURAL STATE OF MAN ONE OF WAR.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...books, and not from their own meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are above it. For between...ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and imagination 2 are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err ; and as men abound in copiousness of language,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...meditation, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as mt-n endued with true science arc above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrines,...itself cannot err ; and as men abound in copiousness of janguage, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for... | |
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