 | Claude Henri Victor Cousin - 1852 - 464 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 to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our... | |
 | 1858 - 422 pages
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its compreliension, 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 - Philosophy - 1853 - 444 pages
...repressing the rashness of philosophy, and, at the same time, of encouraging useful investigations. ing 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in mecMling 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... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 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 retinS d'une si longue poursuite, c'est d' avoir appris a recognoltre... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1854 - 660 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 1 Absurd as the hypothesis of a Pre- ignorans, ou lies esprits homes." — (Letestablis/ied Harmony... | |
 | Victor Cousin - Psychology - 1855 - 650 pages
...the busy mind of man, to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; and 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1857 - 846 pages
...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 reach of our capacities. We should not then perhaps be so forward, out of an affectation of universal knowledge, to raise questions... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophy - 1857 - 838 pages
...use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with the 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 reach... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1859 - 500 pages
...thereby 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 of our... | |
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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,... 
