 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1910 - 216 páginas
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley - 1910 - 196 páginas
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 páginas
...infect and corrupt the state ' thereof. Jjgr.thp m fnd^qiJOTanJ5_^ r _lTJ?l-ihj' r 0 *"™* " f ° clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things...according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather i like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not_de]iY£ied.jajidj:educed.... | |
 | Richard Ashley Rice - 1915 - 410 páginas
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 páginas
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative;... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 páginas
...their quest of truth, perceived that there were four grounds of human error. Of these the first is "the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind" of man. The mind is always prone to accept the affirmative or active as proof rather than the negative... | |
 | 1925 - 610 páginas
...fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all. .... For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...imposed upon us by the general nature of the mind. . . . Browne opens the first book with a similar statement : The first and farther cause of common... | |
 | 1927 - 520 páginas
...mit der menschlichen Sprache zu tun 2). Bereits in A ist der Grundgedanke angedeutet : 'And lastly let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgär sort (NO... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...mortality to use. Ben Jonson, 397. THE mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, . . . nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. Bacon, A, 200. WHERE Sense is wanting, everything is wanting. Halifax, 248. A RUSH of thoughts is the... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1969 - 64 páginas
...faculty, and that is neither universal nor even commonly found. The mind of man, as Bacon says, 'is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced'. But one clue I think I can commend to you which will lead in the right direction, though not all the... | |
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For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; .nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered... 
