 I was wandering farther from my own state in examining them than others in not knowing them. I pardoned their little knowledge; but I thought at least to find many companions in the study of man and that it was the true study which is suited to him. I...  The Illustrated Family Magazine - Page 251edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | 1903 - 654 pages
...exact sciences, and I was disgusted to find how little companionship one can have in it. When I began the study of man I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to him, and that I had wandered further from my proper condition in investigating them than... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - Literature - 1910 - 468 pages
...the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own state in examining them, than others in... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - 1910 - 468 pages
...the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own state in examining them, than others in... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1910 - 462 pages
...in play, and to be always fully occupied. How hollow and full of ribaldry is the heart of manl 144 I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own sate in examining them, than others in... | |
 | Blaise Pascal - Apologetics - 1910 - 480 pages
...the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When T commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own state in examining them, than others in... | |
 | John Middleton Murry - English prose literature - 1925 - 498 pages
...abstract sciences, and the small opportunity for communicating knowledge disgusted me. When I began the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not proper to man, and that I had strayed farther from my true condition in entering them than others in... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering further from my own state in examining them, than others in... | |
 | Frederick Charles Copleston - Philosophy - 1957 - 384 pages
...with whom one shares these studies and with whom one can 'communicate') had disgusted me. When I began the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not proper to man. . . .'4 When Pascal depreciates 'reason', he is using the term in a narrow sense, to... | |
 | Simon Gindikin - Mathematics - 1988 - 180 pages
...the study of the abstract sciences, and was disheartened by the small number of fellow-students in them. When I commenced the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not suited to man, and that I was wandering farther from my own state in examining them, than others in... | |
 | Frederick Copleston - Philosophy - 1999 - 388 pages
...with whom one shares these studies and with whom one can 'communicate') had disgusted me. When I began the study of man, I saw that these abstract sciences are not proper to man. . . .'4 When Pascal depreciates 'reason', he is using the term in a narrow sense, to... | |
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