 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...expresses it) " to prevail with the busy mind of man to be cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...expresses it) " to prevail with the busy mind of man to be cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Bookbinding - 1834 - 398 pages
...exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination,...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of an universal knowledge, to raise... | |
 | René Descartes - 1835 - 508 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more « cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when « it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance « of those things , which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the « reach... | |
 | René Descartes - Philosophy - 1835 - 508 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more « cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when » it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; audio sit down in a quiet ignorance « of those things , which, upon examination, are found to be... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1838 - 590 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the... | |
 | Johann Eduard Erdmann - Philosophy, Modern - 1840 - 460 pages
...busy mind of man , to be mare cautions in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to shop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which upon examination we found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost...those things which, upon examination, are found to be above the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so prone, out of affectation of... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with tilings exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | Robert Vaughan - Christianity - 1849 - 338 pages
...prevail with the busy mind of ' man to be more cautious in meddling with the things ' which exceed its comprehension, to stop when it is at ' the utmost extent of its tether, and sit down in a quiet ' ignorance of those things which upon examination are ' found to be beyond the... | |
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I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man, to be more Cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; to stop when it is at the Utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which,... 
