 It may sound oddly, but it is true in many cases, to say, that if men had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last,...  THE MONTHLY REVIEW OR LITERARY JOURNAL VOL.XI - Page 3by SEVERAL HANDS - 1754Full view - About this book
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Philosophy - 1754 - 424 pages
...is true in many cafes to fay, that if men had learned lefs, their way to knowledge would be fhorter and eafier. It is indeed fhorter and eafier to proceed...any good purpofe : and the firft part of this double tafk is not in many refpects the leaft difficult ; for which reafon it is feldom undertaken. The vulgar,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1793 - 664 pages
...is true in many cafes to fay, that if men had learned lefs, their way to knowledge .would be fhorter and eafier. It is indeed fhorter and eafier to proceed...any good purpofe ; and the firft part of this double tafk is not in many refpects the leaft difficult, for which reafon it is feldom undertaken. The vulgar,... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 258 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last, must unlearn, before they can learn to any good purpose; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 328 pages
...eradication is imperfect ; and, in most, the attempt is a total failure. It is both shorter and easier, to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They, who are in the last, must unlearn, before they can learn to any good purpose ; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 552 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last, must unlearn before they can learn to any good purpose; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1841 - 558 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last, must unlearn before they can learn to any good purpose; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last, must unlearn, before they can learn to any good purpose ; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | 1850 - 588 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge than from error. They who are in the last must unlearn before they can learn to any good purpose, and the first part of this double task... | |
 | Ranley - 1864 - 226 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge, than from error. They who are in the last, must unlearn, before they can learn to any good purpose ; and the first part of this double task... | |
 | James Compton Burnett - Homeopathy - 1888 - 212 pages
...had learned less, their way to knowledge would be shorter and easier. It is indeed shorter and easier to proceed from ignorance to knowledge than from error. They who are in the last must unlearn before they can learn to any good purpose ; and the first part of this double task... | |
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