 I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the love of it...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3951870Full view - About this book
 | John Wynne - 1752 - 280 pages
...whoperfuade themfelves' that they are fo. How a man may know whether he be fo in earnett, is worth Enquiry : and I think there is this one unerring mark of it, viz. The not entertaining any Propofition with greater aflurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond... | |
 | J. JOHNSON - 1801 - 374 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining..."with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 986 pages
...that tbty are fo. How a mnn may know whether he be fo in earneft, is worth inquiry ; and I think theic is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any propofitiou with greater affurance, than the proofs it is biiik upon will warrant.- Whoever goesbeyoiul... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...thr.y are fo. How am;in may know whethtt" he be fo in earned, is worth inquiry ; and I thir.k thc'e is this one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any propofition with greater afTunmce, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is one unerring mark of it, viz. the not entertaining...with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - 346 pages
...persuasions, few love Truth for Truth's sake. • A certain mark of a man's earnestly loving it, is his not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance,...will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent loves it for some bye end ; for it must be some other affection than the love of Truth which... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 448 pages
...troth-sake, even amongst these who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry : and I think there is...with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will -warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain receives not truth in the... | |
 | James Fishback - 1813 - 326 pages
...sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he is so in earnest, is worth inquiry: And I think there is...one unerring mark of it, (viz.) the not entertaining anypropcsitiou with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there is one unerring1 mark of it, viz. the not entertaining any proposition...with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. Whoever goes beyond this measure of assent, it is plain, receives not truth in the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1818 - 432 pages
...persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be-so in earnest, is worth enquiry, and I think there is this one unerring mark of it,...with greater assurance, than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." These weighty sentiments, so worthy to be carried along with us in all our secular,... | |
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