 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 406 pàgines
...Small are the advantages which a single unassisted individual 'can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing. It is obvious, then, that writing and discourse are objects entitled to the highest attention. Whether... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1817 - 516 pàgines
...Small arc the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort or ability of one, so mufch as it is the result of the reason of manv, arising from lights mutually communicated, in consequence... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 538 pàgines
...Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...communicated, in- consequence of discourse and writing. It is obvious, then, that writing and discourse are objects entitled to the highest attention. Whether... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pàgines
...(nay, almost sanctifying) error. Chesterfield. What we call human reason, is not the effort or ahility of one, so much as it is the result of the reason...communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing. Blair. It seems to be as much designed by the Author of Nature, that rational animals should use their... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1832 - 378 pàgines
...make towards perfecting any of his powers. (What we call human reason, is not the effort or abil^v of one, so much as it is the result of the reason of manyVsrising from lights mutually communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing.! It is obvious... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pàgines
...Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing. It is obvious, then, that writing and discourse are objects entitled to the highest attention. Whether... | |
 | Hugh Blair, Abraham Mills - 1838 - 372 pàgines
...Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing. It is obvious then, that writing and discourse are objects entitled to the highest attention. Whether... | |
 | Frederic Adolphus Krummacher, John Willison Ferguson - 1841 - 224 pàgines
...Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...communicated, in consequence of discourse and writing." NOTE G.— p. 1 56. " Even the heathens had their prophets, who unconsciously, and against their own... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 pàgines
...Small are the advances which a single unassisted individual can make towards perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason, is not the effort...mutually communicated, in consequence of discourse and writmg. ItisobviOus, then, that writing and discourse are objects entitled to the highest attention.... | |
 | 1852 - 978 pàgines
...itself. Small are the advances which a single unassisted iadivi^ual can make toward perfecting any of his powers. What we call human reason is not the effort...ability of one so much as it is the result of the reasoning of many, arl»ia - from lights mutually communicated, in consequence of speech and writing."... | |
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... great instrument by which man becomes beneficial to man: and it is to the intercourse and transmission of thought, by means of speech, that we are chiefly indebted for the improvement of thought itself. Small are the advances which a single unassisted... 
