 | Y. Masih - 1999 - 606 pagini
...nature herself suffices to that purpose, and curse me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium...! dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and...friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I return to these speculations, they appear so cold and strained, and ridiculous that I cannot find in... | |
 | Alvin Plantinga - 2000 - 528 pagini
...herself, fortunately, dispels these clouds of despair: she "cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind,...back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends" (p. 269). Still, the enlightened person, Hume thinks, holds the consolations of Nature at arm's length.... | |
 | Adam Potkay - 2000 - 276 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,...I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, am merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations,... | |
 | James Fieser - 2000 - 340 pagini
...conviction." Treatise of Human Nature, vol. 1. p. 474. [Treatise, 1.4.7] 87 "I dine, I play a game at back-gammon, 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 in my heart to enter into them any further. Here... | |
 | Ann Banfield - 2007 - 456 pagini
...among ordinary things"(;\/«Z), 87), amidst chatter and Hume's "lively impressions of the senses": "I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse,...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hours's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd and ridiculous,... | |
 | David O'Connor, George Pattison - 2001 - 252 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,...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous,... | |
 | Kevin D. Hoover - 2001 - 330 pagini
...that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression...merry with my friends; and when after three or four hour's amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear cold, and strain'd and ridiculous,... | |
 | Michael Huemer - 2001 - 236 pagini
...earlier characterization of skepticism in chapter I. 16. Hume admitted this in a famous passage: 1 dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and...friends; and when after three or four hours' amusement, I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I cannot... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2000 - 772 pagini
...herself. By rejoining the world and regaining his sociability, he restored his mental equilibrium: 'I dine, I play a game of back-gammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when ... I wou'd return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strain'd, and ridiculous, that I... | |
 | Samuel Todes - 2001 - 402 pagini
...since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose. . . . I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when ... I would return to these speculations, they appear . . . ridiculous.72 This is certainly one of... | |
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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... 
