 have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has been my daily employment.  The Light of Nature Pursued - Страница xxiпо Abraham Tucker - 1831Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1769 - 596 страници
...thoughts have taken a turn from my earlieft youth towards fearching into the foundations and mcafures of right and wrong : whatever nature gave me has been cultivated by a careful education, und improved further by as much application as I could bear the fatigue of: my love of retirement has... | |
 | Abraham Tucker - 1807 - 596 страници
...constitution nor talents for active life, neither strength nor a sufficient fund of spirits for hard study: but my thoughts have taken a turn from my earliest...into the foundations and measures of right and wrong; my love of retirement has furnished me with continual leisure, and the exercise of my reason has been... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 528 страници
...fortune, abilities, and character gave him full pretensions. " My thoughts," says Mr. Tucker of himself, " have taken a turn, from my earliest youth, towards...into the foundations and measures of right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure; and the exercise of my reason has... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 520 страници
...fortune, abilities, and character gave him full pretensions. " My thoughts," says Mr. Tucker of himself, M have "taken a turn, from my earliest youth, towards...into the foundations and measures of right and wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure; and the exercise of my reason has... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 340 страници
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," tayi he, " have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching...into the foundations and measures of right and wrong) my love for retirement he recast without changing his thoughts, — had he detached those ethical observations... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 316 страници
...philosopher in tiie ridicule to which his physiological hypothesis is liable.* Thus, for the Hartleian laken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching ' into the foundations and measu res of riglit and wrong; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure;. and... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 страници
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, " have. taken a turn from my earliest youth towards...into the foundations and measures of Right and Wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 страници
...or more modestly ihan Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, "have taken n turn from my earliest youth towards searching into the foundations and measures of Right ana Wrong; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 страници
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. "My thoughts," says he, "have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards...into the foundations and measures of Right and Wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 898 страници
...more naturally, or more modestly than Tucker, the ruling maxim of his life. " My thoughts," says he, " have taken a turn from my earliest youth towards searching...into the foundations and measures of Right and Wrong ; my love for retirement has furnished me with continual leisure ; and the exercise of my reason has... | |
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