 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...possible they should have any existence out of the minds -or thinking things which perceive them. IV. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them. . K IV. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - Philosophy - 1822 - 584 pages
...absurdities? But to proceed with the Bishop. " It is indeed," says he, " an opinion strangely prevalent amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word, all sensible objects have an exi stence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding." (And who will... | |
 | 1826 - 434 pages
...possible they should have any existence out of the mind or thinking things which perceive them." " It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst...houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects,have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 700 pages
...world as is commonly believed to exist, is absurd. " It is indeed an opinion strongly prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." Principles of Human Knowledge, $ 4. " From what has been said, it follows, there is not any other substance... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...minds or thinking things which perceive them. " 4. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 1000 pages
...minds or thinking things which perceive them. " 4. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...minds or thinking things which perceive them. " 4. It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world,... | |
 | Theology - 1838 - 428 pages
...hollow and glass shrill. Yet, as Berkeley remarks, " it is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word,...from their being perceived by the understanding." But ask of such a believer a reason for the faith that is in him. What is that matter, for the exbtence... | |
 | Alexander Duff - Hinduism - 1839 - 738 pages
...expose the fallacy of " the opinion strangely prevailing among men, that houses, mountains, rivers, &c., in a word, all sensible objects have an existence...distinct from their being perceived by the understanding ! " These, however, were only the whimsies and the reveries of fallible men. It remained for the sages... | |
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It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real ', distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But, with how great an assurance... 
