 | Robert Eden Scott - 1805 - 524 pages
...fyftem as a thing very obvious, and readily to be admitted. * Some truths there are, ' fays he, ' fo near and * obvious to the mind, that a man need only * open his eyes to fee them. Such I take this * important one to be, that all the choir of * heaven, and furniture of... | |
 | Thomas Andros - 1820 - 142 pages
...conclusion one, which in any degree, need stagger the incredulous; "Some truths there are so near, says he, and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them; such 1 take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of earth — in a word,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1827 - 706 pages
...would easily find unanswerable arguments in that doctrine. " Some truths there are," says Berkeley, " so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such," he adds, " I take this important one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furniture of the earth... | |
 | Ernst Reinhold - 1829 - 612 pages
...benfenben «Subftanj fid> tcnnbcn. Hierauf i (l ju etwicbern: eine 23orfteiUms fann I) 1. c. 5- 5 U. 6. Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see 'em. Such I take this important one to lie, »:/;. that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the... | |
 | 1835 - 566 pages
...the following quotation (fforks, vi • 26), with which we shall close this part. The reader »;¡1 observe that axioms are assumed as doubtful at least,...' Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mini that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Sucb I take this important one to be, to wit,... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pages
...easily find unanswerable arguments in that doctrine. [161] " Some truths there are," says Berkeley, " so near and obvious to the mind, that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such," he adds, " I take this ¡m portant one to be, that all the choir of heaven, and furnituro of the earth—... | |
 | David Stuart (D.D.) - 1853 - 196 pages
...material universe has no existence distinct from, and independent of the perceptions of the mind. " Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind,...that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such 1 take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of earth — in... | |
 | 1869 - 796 pages
...truths," says the philosopher, his gaze widening, his mind swelling with an exaltation worthy his subject, "are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only to open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be — to wit, that all the choir of... | |
 | 1869 - 1062 pages
...says the philosopher, his gaze widening, his mind swelling with an exaltation worthy his subject, " are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only to open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be — to wit, that all the choir of... | |
 | 1875 - 402 pages
...demonstration of this was needed, as it might be seen in its own light. ' Some truths,' he says, ' are so• near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes• to see them.' ' Such,' he adds, ' I take this important one to bethat all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth,... | |
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Some truths there are so near and obvious to the mind that a man need only open his eyes to see them. Such I take this important one to be, to wit, that all the choir of heaven and furniture of the earth, in a word, all those bodies which compose the... 
