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" And the most part of men, though they have the use of reasoning a little way, as in numbering to some degree, yet it serves them to little use in common life, in which they govern themselves, some better, some worse according to their differences of experience,... "
Logic; Or, The Analytic of Explicit Reasoning - Page 16
by George Hugh Smith - 1901 - 266 pages
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy, English - 1839 - 766 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in tune to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends ; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 3

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1839 - 744 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends ; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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Hobbes's Leviathan; Harrington's Ocean; Famous Pamphlets [A.D. 1644 to A.D ...

Thomas Hobbes - Political science - 1889 - 932 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in lime to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends ; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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The Ethics of Hobbes: As Contained in Selections from His Works

Thomas Hobbes - Ethics - 1898 - 408 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends ; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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The Philosophy of Hobbes in Extracts and Notes Collated from His Writings

Thomas Hobbes - Christianity - 1903 - 444 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes: With ...

Philosophy - 1910 - 470 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 34

Literature - 1910 - 470 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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French and English Philosophers: Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire, Hobbes

René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1910 - 436 pages
...reasonable creatures, for the possibility apparent of having the use of reason in time to come. And the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory, and inclinations to several ends; but specially according to good or evil fortune, and the errors of one...
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The Question: "If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again?": Job XIV 14. A Brief ...

Edward Clodd - Spiritualism - 1918 - 324 pages
...deception. Shrewd Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury — himself a timid man — says in his Leviathan, " the most part of men, though they have the use of...differences of experience, quickness of memory and inclinations to severall ends." 2 Parallel with this is Herbert Spencer's remark that "men are rational...
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Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy

Stephen Holmes - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 360 pages
...wildly with Behemoth's fabulous chronicle of human folly. As he had already laid down in Leviathan, "the most part of men, though they have the use of Reasoning a little way . . . yet it serves them to little use in common life." Since "Reason" is not given by nature but rather...
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