 | 1835 - 428 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return. I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." * When the French philosopher, Diderot, felt that his end was approaching, he sent for a priest, and... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed- with the deepest darkness."* Diderot, one oftho French philosophists, was л man of very considerable acquirements in literature... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1839 - 472 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." It was this, which peopled with terrors the imagination of the dying Voltaire, when he disburdened... | |
 | Elizabeth Stryker Ricord - 1840 - 440 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence and to what condition shall I return ? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness."* The Earl of Rochester, through his love of pleasure and wit, had so sported with all the moral and... | |
 | 1847 - 396 sidor
...From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness.'* The case of Voltaire furnishes an equally striking instance. In a passage which has often been quoted... | |
 | Christian - 1843 - 412 sidor
...surround me, and on whom have 1 any influence, or who have any influence on me ? / am confounded by all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable i environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty."... | |
 | 1846 - 608 sidor
...shall 1 return? Whose favor shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence...deprived of the use of every member and faculty."* We have transcribed these passages, as we think it important to show that Hume regarded his own studies... | |
 | John Todd - 1845 - 402 sidor
...I return ; whose favor shall I court, and whose anger shall I dread ? What beings surround me, and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded by all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 512 sidor
...I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence...utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself... | |
 | University magazine - 1846 - 780 sidor
...I return ? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread ? What beings surround me ? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence...utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty, "f We have transcribed these passages, * Treatise of Human Nature, book i. part 4 ; and Woodhouslee's... | |
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Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? Whose favour shall I court, and whose anger must I dread? What beings surround me? and on whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me?... 
