| Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...have I any " influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all " these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...deprived of *' the use of every member and faculty." And is this the fruit of those boasted philosophical discoveries ? this the only end to which the most... | |
| Thomas Cogan - 1807 - 540 pages
...I derive my existence, and (o what condition shall I return? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself In the most deplorable condition...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness."}: The trifler Voltaire has no claim to be placed in a Una •with the above Philosophers. They appeared... | |
| Early English newspapers - 1808 - 690 pages
...whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...environed with, the deepest darkness, and utterly dep-ived of the use of every member and faculty." Treat, of Human Nature, vol. I. p. 457. The foregoing... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Judges - 1814 - 492 pages
...once by his natural feelings, and the return of common sense. " Most " fortunately, (continues he), it happens, that since Reason is " incapable of dispelling...to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical mclan" choly and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, " or by some avocation, and lively... | |
| Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Judges - 1814 - 482 pages
...once by his natural feelings, and the return of common sense. " Most " fortunately, (continues he), \t happens, that since Reason is " incapable of dispelling...to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melan" choly and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, " or by some avocation, and lively... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1815 - 398 pages
...I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I rcturn? I am confounded with these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness." It was this which pcopled with terrors the imagination of the dying Voltaire, when he dishurdened his... | |
| 1822 - 526 pages
...whom have I any influence, or who have any influence on me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...deprived of the use of every member and faculty." But scepticism is no part of the system of Doctor Brown, though he has followed many of the errors... | |
| Theology - 1824 - 492 pages
...I derive existence, or to what condition do I return ? I am confounded with these questions ; and I begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness ! — p. 332. ZOROASTER AND HIS RELIGION. THE religion of the Persians had followed the fate of then... | |
| Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 652 pages
...have I any influence, and who have any influence over me ? I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition...with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of every member and faculty." * Is such a man an object of envy ? Does this pitiable state of mind present... | |
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