 | 1848 - 590 pàgines
...the contrary, I would rather endeavour to promote the desire of entering upon such subjects; but 1 would warn him, when he tries to look down his own...candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his head on fire.' We stop not to comment upon this closing, naive, but inapt 420 exhortation.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 588 pàgines
...promote the desire of entering upon such subjects : but I would warn him, when he tries to look dov,n his own throat with a candle in his hand, to take care that he doe* not set his head on fire." For a multitude of similar instances, see the whole chapter on Fallacies,... | |
 | Robert Moffat - 1864 - 232 pàgines
...on the contrary, I would rather endeavour to promote the desire of entering upon such XI subjects : but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his...candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his head on fire."* In the second case, it happens that though the ingenious contrivers of speaking... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - 1869 - 422 pàgines
...to promote the desire of entering upon such subjects ; but I would forewarn him, when he endeavors to look down his own throat with a candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his head on fire." " I can seem to see, as that hard and dark season was passing away, a diminished... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1877 - 508 pàgines
...himself think." And De Morgan^^i^his usual attempt at smartness, warns the student of such a scif^fc, " when he tries to look down his own throat -with a candle ^Ife hand, to take care that he does not set his head on fire." ITT reply, we need only appeal to the... | |
 | 1879 - 578 pàgines
...; on the contrary, I would rather endeavour to promote the desire of entering upon such subjects : but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his...candle in his hand, to take care that he does not let his head on fire." — Formal Logic; or, the Calmltu of Inference, Sic., by Augustus De Morgan,... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 598 pàgines
...metaphysical inquiry ; on the contrary I would rather promote the desire of entering on such subjects ; but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his...candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his own head on fire."* But the facts that an eye cannot see itself and that a man cannot look... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 604 pàgines
...metaphysical inquiry; on the contrarv I would rather promote the desire of entering on such subjects; but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his own throat with a candle in his baud, to take care that he does not set his own head on fire."* But the facts that an eye cannot see... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1883 - 618 pàgines
...metaphysical inquiry; on the contrary I would rather promote the desire of entering on such subjects; but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his own throat witli a candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his own head on fire." * But the facts... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1889 - 516 pàgines
...think." And De Morgan, with his usual attempt at smartness, warns the student of such a science, " when he tries to look down his own throat with a candle in his hand, to take care that he does not set his head on fire." In reply, we need only appeal to the notorious fact, be it comprehensible or... | |
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I would not dissuade a student from metaphysical inquiry ; on the contrary I would rather promote the desire of entering on such subjects ; but I would warn him, when he tries to look down his own throat with a candle in his hand, to take care that he... 
