| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 trang
...saine year at London, his " Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals,"" which," he says, " in my opinion, (who ought not to judge on that subject,)...philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best. It came unmarked and undiscovered into the world." In that year he became " Keeper of the Advocates' Library,... | |
| University magazine - 1846 - 780 trang
...same year, at London, his " Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals," " which," he says, " in my opinion, (who ought not to judge on that subject,)...historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the beet. It came unmarked and undiscovered into the world." In that year he became " Keeper of the Advocates'... | |
| 1846 - 636 trang
...Mr. Uurlon styles " the full development of his utilitarian system ;" and which, says Hume, •' io my own opinion (who ought not to judge on that subject) is of all my writings, historical, philneophical, or literary, incomparably the best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world."... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1846 - 588 trang
...perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." * My Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best." Life, p. 16. •itt PREFACE, LET no reader take offence, though the subjects debated in the following... | |
| 1847 - 586 trang
..." Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals," and of this work he says, " which in my own opinion is of all my writings, historical, philosophical, or literary, incomparably the best." (I. 350.) And Hume's estimate was correct. No engine could have been better adapted than this, for... | |
| John Keefe Robinson - 1850 - 162 trang
...find him publishing his " Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals," " which," says he, " in my opinion, who ought not to judge on that subject, is...It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world." One would have thought that such reception would he sufficient to damp the most ardent temperament.... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 508 trang
...at home. In the same year was published at London, my 'Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals;' which, in my own opinion, (who ought not to judge...best. It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world. lu 1752 the Faculty of Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or... | |
| Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1854 - 176 trang
...who were most commonly the assailants." — Gibbon. " In the same year was published my ' Inquiry,' which, in my own opinion, who ought not to judge on that subject, is, of all my writings, incomparably the best." — Hume. " That our bodies may be protected from harm (the bodies of us),... | |
| Thomas Goodwin (headmaster.) - 1855 - 386 trang
...of the relative is determined by the sense : thus — " In the same year was published my Inquiry, which, in my own opinion, who ought not to judge on that subject, is, of all my writings, incomparably the best." — Hume. " For my own part, who must confess it to my shame, that I never... | |
| 1869 - 796 trang
...at home. In the same year was published at London my ' Inquiry concerning the Principles of Morals,' which, in my own opinion (who ought not to judge on...It came unnoticed and unobserved into the world." 683 Thus, with a certain mild irony, he records hia successes and failures, feeling, as many a writer... | |
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