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" So that in the right definition of names lies the first use of speech, which is the acquisition of science; and in wrong, or no definitions, lies the first abuse; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets: which make those men that take their... "
The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and Foreign Jurisprudence - Page 68
1854
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Philosophic Etymology: Or Rational Grammar

James Gilchrist - English language - 1816 - 296 pages
...the first abuse; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books and...be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as those endued with true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance...
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The Christian Disciple, Volume 5

Liberalism (Religion) - 1823 - 580 pages
...the first abuse ; from which proceed all false and senslesse Tenets ; which make ihose men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and...to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, jis men endued with true Science are above i(. For between t true Science and erroneous Doctrines,...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 14

Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 810 pages
...lies the fust abuse, from which proceed false and senseless tenets ; which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and...ignorance is in the middle. Natural sense and imagination [concepiioii] are not subject to absurdity. Nature itself cannot err : and as men abound in copiousness...
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A Review of the Principles of Necessary and Contingent Truth, in Reference ...

Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...the first abuse, from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and...as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men of true science are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, ignorance is in the...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With a Notice of His Life by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...make them that take their instruction from the authority of books and not from their own meditations, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science aro above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the middle. Natural...
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Biographical sketch

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...lies the first abuse, 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, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are...
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Literary remains of the late William Hazlitt. With a notice of his life, by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...lies the first abuse, 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, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...lies the first abuse, 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, to be as much below the condition of ignorant men, as men endued with true science are...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...the first abuse ; from which proceed all false and senseless tenets ; which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and...science and erroneous doctrines, ignorance is in the mid- PART i. dle. Natural sense and imagination are not sub- . 4• , ject to absurdity. Nature itself...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth ..., Volume 3

Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...lies the first abuse from which proceed all false and senseless tenets, which make those men that take their instruction from the authority of books, and...are above it. For between true science and erroneous doctrine, CHAP. ignorance is in the middle. Words are wise men's IL counters, they do but reckon by...
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