 | Thomas Reid - 1810 - 502 pagina’s
...Philosophy (if I may be .permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of Common Sense •, it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment from them: severed B 2 from from this root, its honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots. The philosophers... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 320 pagina’s
...Philosophy, (if I may be permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of Common Sense ; it grows out of them and draws its nourishment...to the preserving this union and subordination so carefully as the honour and interest of philosophy required ; but those of the present have waged open... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1823 - 350 pagina’s
...Philosophy, (if I may he permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of Common Sense ; it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment...mentioned, did not attend to the preserving this union and suhordination so carefully as the ho-, nour and interest of philosopby required ; but those of the... | |
 | Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart - 1843 - 632 pagina’s
...philosophy (if I may be permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of common sense ; it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment...to the preserving this union and subordination so carefully as the honour and interest of philosophy required : but those of the present have waged open... | |
 | Thomas Reid - 1846 - 1080 pagina’s
...Philosophy (if I may be permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of Common Sense ; it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment...attend to the preserving this union and subordination fo carefully as the honour nnd interest of philosophy required : but those of the present have waged... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1862 - 388 pagina’s
...Thomas Reid, in 1764, "has no other root but the principles of common sense; it grows out of them, it draws its nourishment from them; severed from this...honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots." (Inquiry, tfc., Intr. § 4.) We, in the present generation, have seen the great speculative movement... | |
 | Book, H. A. - 1865 - 184 pagina’s
...OF PHILOSOPHY. Philosophy has no root but the principles of common sense ; it grows out of them, it draws its nourishment from them ; severed from this...honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots. THOMAS REID. LIVELY WIT OF LESS VALUE THAN JUST PERCEPTION. Ce n'est point un grand avantage d'avoir... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pagina’s
...OF PHILOSOPHY. Philosophy has no root but the principles of common sense ; it grows out of them, it draws its nourishment from them ; severed from this...honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and 'rots Tlwinas Reid. SERVICE DONE BY SCEPTICAL WRITERS. I conceive the sceptical writers to be a set of men... | |
 | Henry Attwell - 1870 - 314 pagina’s
...OF PHILOSOPHY. Philosophy has no root but the principles of common sense; it grows out of them, it draws its nourishment from them ; severed from this...honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots Thomas Keitl. SERVICE DOXE BY SCEPTICAL WRITERS. I conceive the sceptical writers to be a set of men... | |
 | 1875 - 842 pagina’s
...«ense say ? As Reid very well puts it, " Philosophy has no other root but the principles of common sense; it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment...honours '••wither, its sap is dried up, it dies "and rets." "What, then, are these principles of common sense ? Where are they to be found, and by what... | |
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I may be permitted to change the metaphor) has no other root but the principles of Common Sense; it grows out of them, and draws its nourishment from them. Severed from this root, its honours wither, its sap is dried up, it dies and rots. 
