 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Philosophers - 1876 - 598 pages
...he of use to prevail with tho busy mind of man to he 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cau/ tious 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1881 - 892 pages
...make the mind of man "more cautious in meddling with tiling exceeding its comprehension, and disposed to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether. " This purpose led him to that thorough investigation of the constitution of the human mind, resulting... | |
 | Biography - 1883 - 836 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...ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - Life - 1883 - 526 pages
...will yield a better return for the labor expended. Locke very wisely recommends that we "sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities." Still, from education and habit, rather than from necessary constitution, the mind inclines to find... | |
 | Alexander Bain - Philosophy - 1884 - 596 pages
...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 proved to be beyond the "reach of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1889 - 604 pages
...use to prevail with the busy spirit 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 things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.... | |
 | Benjamin Chapman Burt - Philosophy, Modern - 1892 - 376 pages
...mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop where it is, at the utmost extent of its tether, and to...are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities ; our business in this world being not to know all things, but only those which concern our conduct,"... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pages
...use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding his comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost extent...ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond the reach of our capacities. We should not then, perhaps, be so forward, out of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 838 pages
...make the mind of man ' more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, and disposed to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether.' This purpose led him to that thorough investigation of the constitution of the human mind, resulting... | |
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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,... 
