 The consideration, then, of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if they were distinctly weighed, and duly...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 270by John Locke - 1813Full view - About this book
 | Charles Richardson - 1854 - 292 pages
...doctrine of signs, " The consideration, then, of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation, who...another sort of logic and critic than what we have hitherto been acquainted with." Further he ac* " Philosophers that highten Stoiciens wende that the... | |
 | Charles Kraitsir - English language - 1854 - 262 pages
...signs, he says, 1 The consideration, then, of ideas and words, as the great instrument of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who...duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logick and critick than we have hitherto been acquainted with." — HORNB TOOKE, edit. 1840. WoR-c,... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...articulate sounds. The consideration then of ideas and words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who...knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perhaps if it were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1854 - 272 pages
...IV., chap. 21, § 4), " Perhaps if ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, thoy would afford us another sort of logic and critic than what we have hitherto been acquainted with." What a painful, but too late a dawning of light, must this have been... | |
 | Charles Richardson - Language and languages - 1854 - 280 pages
...essence, the adjunct nature of things, &c. &c. And to proceed with our Author to " a very different sort of logic and critic than what we have been hitherto acquainted with;" of which a knowledge of the nature of language and of the meaning of words is a necessary forerunner.... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1857 - 812 pages
...signs, he says, — " The consideration then of Ideas and Words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who...of human knowledge in the whole extent of it. And perlmps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1860 - 812 pages
...signs, he says, — "The consideration then of Ideas and Words, as the great instruments of knowledge, makes no despicable part of their contemplation who would take a view of human knowledge iu the whole extent of it. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed and duly considered, they would... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - Rationalism - 1858 - 168 pages
...ignorance. " The consideration of words, as the instruments of knowledge, makes," according to Locke, " no despicable part of their contemplation, who would...view of human knowledge in the whole extent of it." This study is recognised by Locke as the third branch, in his threefold division of knowledge, —... | |
 | ROBERT NARES, A.M., F.R.S., F.A.S., - 1859 - 494 pages
...Orthoepy, p. 341. But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make cacti day a critique on the last. And perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford из another sort of logick and critick, than what we have hitherto been acquainted with. Locke on... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - Language and languages - 1862 - 270 pages
...on the Human Understanding, when he said (in Book IV., chap. 21, § 4), " Perhaps if ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they...another sort of logic and critic than what we have hitherto been acquainted with." "What a painful, but too late a dawning of light, must this have been... | |
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