 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 sayfa
...upon which wit and reason have exercised their powers, must lament the unsuccessfulness of enquiry, and the slow advances of truth, when he reflects, that great part of the labour of every writer is only the destruction of those that went before him. The first care of the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sayfa
...upon which wit and reason have exercised their powers, must lament the unsuccessfulness of enquiry and the slow advances of truth, when he reflects that great part of the labour of every writer is only the destruction of those that went before him. The first care of the... | |
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It is no pleasure to me, in revising my volumes, to observe how much paper is wasted in confutation. Whoever considers the revolutions of learning, and the various questions of greater or less importance, upon which wit and reason have exercised their... 
