 | James Beattie - 1776 - 504 pagini
...conviction." Treati/e of Human Nature, vol. ip 474. f " I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, I con" verfe, and am merry with my friends; and when, " after three or four hours amufement, 1 would return " to thefe fpeculations, they appear fo cold, fo ftrained, *• and fo ridiculous,... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1777 - 66 pagini
...differently ; very much fo, indeed. " I dine, fays he, I " play a game at back-gammon, " I converfe, and am merry " with my friends ; and when, " after three or four hours " amufement, I would return " to thefe fpeculations, they " appear fo cold, fojlrained, and " fo ridiculous,... | |
 | David Hume, Adam Smith - 1777 - 138 pagini
...differently ; very much fo, indeed. " I dine, fays he, I " play a game at back-gammon, " I converfe, and am merry " with my friends ; and when, '' after three or four hours " amufement, I would return " to thefe fpeculations, they " appear fo cold, fojirained, and " fo ridiculous,... | |
 | George Horne - 1786 - 380 pagini
...differently; very much Co, indeed. ** I dine, fays he, I play a " game at back-gammon, I converfe, " and am merry with my friends ; and " when, after three or four hours " amufement, I would return to thefe " fpeculations, they appear fo cold, ** fo jlrained, and fo ridiculous,... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - 1807 - 400 pagini
...his philosophical conviction." Treatise of Human Nature, vol. lp 474. t " I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, I converse and am " merry with my friends ; and when, after three or four hours a" musement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so " cold, so strained, and so ridiculous... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pagini
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he, " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends;...return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find ili my heart to enter into them any farther." Now,... | |
 | Elizabeth Frank - 1814 - 400 pagini
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he. " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends...return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot find inMny heart to enter into them any farther." Now,... | |
 | 1816 - 358 pagini
...the world. But, at other times, he judged very differently. " I dine," says he, " I play a game at backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends...; and when, after three or four hours' amusement, J would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, so strained, and so ridiculous, that I cannot... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 508 pagini
...these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, arid cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively im- * pression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon,... | |
 | James Douglas (of Cavers.) - 1831 - 334 pagini
...these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind,...avocation and lively impression of my senses, which obliterates all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse and am merry with my... | |
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Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and... 
