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" Were it fit to trouble thee with the history of this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every... "
The Life of John Locke - Page 248
by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 506 pages
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John Locke as a Factor in Modern Thought

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1904 - 22 pages
...remote from criticism of human intelligence, found themselves at a stand by difficulties that arose on every side. ' After we had awhile puzzled ourselves without coming any nearer a solution of our doubts, it came into my thoughts,' he says, ' that we took a wrong course ; and that...
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The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Rationalism ...

Alfred William Benn - Philosophy, English - 1906 - 532 pages
...told us who were his friends, nor where they met, nor what was the puzzling question that left them ' quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side.' But all becomes clear if we assume that the puzzle was of theological origin, and that the solution...
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A History of the Theology of the Disciples of Christ

Hiram Van Kirk - 1907 - 152 pages
...that five or six friends meeting at my chamber and discoursing on a subject -very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us,...
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Locke

Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 1908 - 116 pages
...six friends,' he says, ' meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties...After we had awhile puzzled ourselves without coming nearer resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts that we took a wrong...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1924 - 438 pages
...that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side.1 After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts...
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Early Conceptions and Tests of Intelligence

Joseph Peterson - Education - 1925 - 362 pages
...a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that arose on every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves...resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came to my thoughts, that we took a wrong course ; and that, before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that...
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The Philosophical Review, Volume 36

Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - Electronic journals - 1927 - 632 pages
...that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side." What this remote subject was Locke nowhere said. But James Tyrrell, who was one of Locke's intimate...
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Selections

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1928 - 436 pages
...that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us,...
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Philosophical Works

Thomas Reid, William Hamilton, Harry M. Bracken, Thomas Reid, Sir William Hamilton - Knowledge, Theory of - 1094 pages
...six friends," says he, " meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had for a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer to a resolution of those doubts that perplexed...
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The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations

Julia Annas, Jonathan Barnes - Philosophy - 1985 - 220 pages
...follows: Five or six Friends meeting at my Chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the Difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled our selves, without coming any nearer a Resolution of those Doubts which perplexed...
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