 I have therefore one common and authentick philosophy I learned in the schools, whereby I discourse and satisfy the reason of other men ; another more reserved, and drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own.  The Harvard Monthly - Page 1781899Full view - About this book
 | 1831 - 370 pages
...Skeptics, and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentic philosophy I learned in the schools, whereby I discourse...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...Sceptics, and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentic philosophy I learned in the schools, whereby I discourse...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits,... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...differs from the vulgar in the extent as well as the acuteness of his vision. "I have," says Sir Thomas, "one common and authentick philosophy I learned in...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own." The most objectionable of modern tyrannies is that of the press. In the United States, boasting the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1835 - 596 pages
...self-evident principles, as to gar Errors, b. vii, c. 13. — Ed. produce absolute conviction." — Ed. therefore one common and authentick philosophy I learned...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1841 - 346 pages
...sceptics, and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentic philosophy I learned in the schools, whereby I discourse...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. (l31) Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits,... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 306 pages
...one common and authentic philosophy he learned in the schools, whereby he discourses and satisfies the reason of other men; another more reserved and drawn from experience, whereby he contents his own."* Whether, in the discourse on the quincunx, the disciple of Pythagoras meant... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1844 - 320 pages
...the wisest heads prove at last almost all scepticks, and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentick philosophy...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1844 - 320 pages
...the wisest heads prove at last almost all scepticks, and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentick philosophy...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1849 - 288 pages
...extent as well as the acuteness of his vision. "I have," says Sir Thomas, " one common and authentic philosophy I learned in the schools, whereby I discourse...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own." The most objectionable of modern tyrannies is that of the press. In the United States, boasting the... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1852 - 582 pages
...wisest heads prove, at last, almost all Scepticks,4 and stand like Janus in the field of knowledge. I have therefore one common and authentick philosophy...drawn from experience, whereby I content mine own.. Solomon, that complained of ignorance in the height of knowledge, hath not only humbled my conceits,... | |
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