 | David Hume - 1817 - 528 pages
...The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...ingenious writer,) "that the " whole is a riddle, an œnigma, an explicable mystery ; and that doubl. " uncertainty, and suspense, appear the only result...concerning this subject ?" Or should not rather the me lancholy histories which he has exhibited of the follies and caprices of superstition, direct our... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 554 pages
...The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion of opinion, that even... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - Scottish drama - 1826 - 110 pages
...philosophical writer * of our own days, after having mentioned some of the sceptical works of Hume, says, " Should not rather the melancholy histories which he...caprices of superstition, direct our attention to * Stewart's Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. ip 368. M601757 those sacred and indelible... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...stop the ocean with a bulrush." And hence this ingenious writer finds himself obliged to conclude, that " the whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable...appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny on this subject." In a former work I attempted to reply to Mr. Hume's reasonings on this head, and... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...inference to which we are led by these observations ? Is it, (to use the words of this ingenious writer,) " that the whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery ; and that doubt, uncertahity, and suspense, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject?"... | |
 | Joanna Baillie - 1832 - 584 pages
...philosophical writer* of our own days, after having mentioned some of the sceptical works of Hume, says, " Should not rather the melancholy histories which he...attention to those sacred and indelible characters of the human mind, which all these perversions of reason are unable to obliterate — ? * * " * In... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject." In his own estimation, then, futurity has its terrors. Doubt, inexplicable mystery, hung over his future... | |
 | Charles Pettit McIlvaine - Apologetics - 1832 - 534 pages
...The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject." In his own estimation, then, futurity has its terrors. Doubt, inexplicable mystery, hung over his future... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pages
...The whole is a riddle, au enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject.' In his own estimation, then, futurity had its terrors. Doubt, inexplicable mystery, hung over his future... | |
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The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspense of judgment, appear the only result of our most accurate scrutiny concerning this subject. But such is the frailty of human reason, and such the irresistible contagion... 
