| John Mitchell Mason - 1849 - 604 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 apd virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit. I ever am, Dear Sir, Most... | |
| David Hume - 1851 - 532 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. I ever am, dear sir, Most... | |
| Alexander Haldane - 1852 - 708 pages
...Moral Sentiments," who also considered Hume " as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as, perhaps, the nature of human frailty will permit." When Adam Smith thus wrote, he knew that Hume had in his lifetime published an essay vindicating suicide,... | |
| 1853 - 616 pages
...both in his lifetime and since hia death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit." Had we leizure or space, we could gather facts from David Hume's life which would seriously question... | |
| 1854 - 496 pages
...Upon the whole, I have always 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," large allowance is doubtless to be made for the exaggerations of friendship and recent loss. Still,... | |
| 1854 - 482 pages
...Upon the whole, I have always 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," large allowance is doubtless to be made for the exaggerations of friendship and recent loss. Still,... | |
| Elihu Rich - 1856 - 1080 pages
...impossible to concur with Adam Smith, ' that he approached as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.' His fatal deficiency has been already adverted to, — he had no sympathy with the largest, the profoundest... | |
| W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...concluding remarks upon the death of Hume, ¿ 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.' Of this frailty he exhibited... | |
| David Hume - 1856 - 536 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. I ever am, dear sir, Most... | |
| George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 pages
...publicly write of him, " Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both during 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." § II. HUME'S SKEPTICISM.... | |
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