 | John Locke - 1879 - 722 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cau/ tious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1879 - 230 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond... | |
 | 1883 - 836 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1884 - 372 pagina’s
...with the busy " mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with "things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when " it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit "down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, "upon examination, are proved to be... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 604 pagina’s
...with the busy spirit of man, to be more cautious, in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of things which upon examination are found to be beyond the reach... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding his comprehension : to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether ; and to sit down in quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are proved to be beyond... | |
 | 1897 - 838 pagina’s
...purpose was to inquire lnt» the powers of the human understanding, with a view to find out what tilings it was fitted to grapple with, and where it must fail,...and important contributions ever made by one man to the knowledge of this subject. lie institutes a preliminary inquiry, in the subject of the First Book,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; ng ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 860 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension ; e reluctant planets to ; and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which upon examination are found to be beyond... | |
 | John Locke - 1905 - 382 pagina’s
...with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension, to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether, and to sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things which, upon examination, are found to be beyond... | |
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I can discover the powers thereof, how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us, I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its... 
