 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit" The effect of such a testimony,... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...the most comprehensive. Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." The effect of such a testimony,... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - 1832 - 534 pages
...in scepticism, Adam Smith, considered him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." But since, in his estimation, female infidelity when unknown was nothing, one needs pretty positive... | |
 | Robert Haldane - 1834 - 534 pages
...Moral Sentiments, declared that he had " always considered Mr Hume, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will admit" ! Shall we then be dazzled... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...with all formality) : " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since , thinking it clinracteristical of a man who has made some noi wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will 3 [It may be supposed that it was... | |
 | 1836 - 506 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | 1837 - 272 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him "as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | 1838 - 604 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...indeed, does not hesitate to speak of him " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Some deduction should of course be made from this language, as that of a natural self-love in the one... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...Hume in their hands — that Hume's character approached as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit ; and therefore there is hardly any portion of the work in which the professors of religion are mentioned,... | |
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Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. 
