 | Several Hands - 1752 - 508 lehte
...frequently require a long deduction .of reafoning. ' When examples are pointed out to us, fays he, there is a kind of appeal, with which we are flattered, made to our fenfes, as well as our underftanding=. The inftruclion comes then upon our own authority.- we frame the precept after our... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1768 - 376 lehte
...judgement, which I quote from one of Seneca's epiftles in confirmation of my own opinion, refts, I think, on this; that when examples are pointed out...to our fenfes, as well as our underftandings. The InftrufHon comes then upon our own authority : We frame the precept after our own experience, and yield... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1793 - 570 lehte
...this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epiftles in confirmation of my own opinion, refts, I think, on this ; that when examples are pointed out...the precept after our own experience, and yield to fact when we refift fpeculation. But this is not the only advantage of inflruction by example ; for... | |
 | 1797 - 522 lehte
...Seneca's epiftles, in confirmation of my o*n opinion, refts I think on this, That *i;a examples arc pointed out to us, there is a kind of appeal, with...the precept after our own experience, and yield to faft when we refill fpeculation. But this is not the only advantage of inllruflion by example; for... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 lehte
...one of Seneca's epiftles, in confirmation of my own opinion, reib I think on this, That when example] are pointed out to us, there is a kind of appeal,...to our fenfes, as well as our underftandings. The inftruflion comes then upon our own authority : we frame the precept after our own experience, and... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1807 - 606 lehte
...Trappe. , • I quote the obfervation of a man of genius on this fubjeft. Lord Bolingbroke fays, ' When examples are pointed ' out to us, there is a kind of appeal wiih which we are flat' tered.made to our fenfes, as well as our underftandings. The • inftruftion... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 486 lehte
...this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this ; that when examples are pointed out...of appeal, with which we are flattered, made to our senses, as well as our understandings. The instruction comes then upon our own authority : we frame... | |
 | Henry St. John (1st visct. Bolingbroke.) - 1809 - 480 lehte
...this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this; that when examples are pointed out to us, there is a kind of appeal, with which v/e are flattered, made to our senses, as well as our understandings. The instruction comes then upon... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 lehte
...judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles, in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this, That when examples are pointed out...of appeal, with which we are flattered, made to our • Few discover by prudence good things from had, or useful things from noxious ones ; while many... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1823 - 342 lehte
...study of Nature in her operations. " When examples are pointed out to us," says Lord Bolingbroke, " there is a kind of appeal, with which we are flattered, made to our senses, as well as to our understandings. The instruction comes then from our authority ; we yield... | |
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The reason of this judgment, which I quote from one of Seneca's epistles in confirmation of my own opinion, rests, I think, on this; that when examples are pointed out to us... 
