 | James Gilchrist - 1816 - 296 pages
...the middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err: and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters, for any man to become either excellently wise or (unless his memory... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1823 - 510 pages
...imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itselfc cannot erre : and as men abound in copiousuesse of language ; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without Letters fcr any man to 1 become either excellently wise, or (unless his... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 810 pages
...Natural sense and imagination [concepiioii] are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err : and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more foolish than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become remarkably wise, or... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - 1830 - 682 pages
...middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature herself cannot err; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or excellently foolish.... | |
 | Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...(unless his memory be hurt by disease, or ill constitution of organs) excellently foolish. And that as men abound in copiousness of language; so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary.' The men of whom I have been speaking, belong to the latter class ; being blest with copiousness of... | |
 | 1835 - 598 pages
...sin no more." • This is the famous Hobbes' opinion of volubility : " As men abound in copimisness of language, so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary." Is Lord B. becoming more wise \ THE DYING FARSEE. H к gaz'd toward the orb of day, Upon the horizon's... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err ; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or (unless his memory... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 pages
...the middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or (unless his memory... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 pages
...middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err ; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise or (unless his memory... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 766 pages
...middle. Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err ; and , as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise, or more mad than ordinary. Nor is it possible without letters for any man to become either excellently wise, or, unless his memoYy... | |
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Natural sense and imagination are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err; and as men abound in copiousness of language, so they become more wise, or more mad, than ordinary. 
