 | James Gilchrist - English language - 1816 - 296 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1823 - 510 pages
...for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right Definition of Names, lyes the first use of speech; which is the Acquisition of Science. And in wrong, or no Definitions, lyes the fir.st abuse ; from which proceed all false and senslcs.se Tenets ; which make those men that... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass-window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...science ; and in wrong or no definitions lies the fust abuse, from which proceed false and senseless tenets ; which make those men that take their instruction... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...flutter at the false light of a window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...is the acquisition of science; and in wrong, or no definition, lies the first abuse, from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets; which make them that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditations,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets ; which make them that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditations,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets; which make them that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditations,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names, lies the first use of speech, which is the acquisition of science, aAl in wrong or no definitions lies the first abuse, from which proceed all false and senseless tenets... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...flutter at the false light of a glass window, for want of wit to consider which way they came in. So that in the right definition of names lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets ; which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...cannot avoid without reckoning anew from the beginning in which lies the foundation of their errors In the right definition of names, lies the first use...from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and not from their own... | |
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... which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditation to be as much below the condition of ignorant men as men endued with true science are above it. 
