 | Hannah More - 1843 - 1166 sider
...undetermined words confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed mean. ing, whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain this advantage, that as in such discourse they are seldom in the right, so they arc seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1847 - 460 sider
...moral matters, is the cause of very obscure and uncertain notions. They use these undetermined words confidently, without much troubling their heads about...of it, they obtain this advantage, that as in such discourse they are seldom in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 sider
...Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours ; and, that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage, that as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong ; it being... | |
 | John Locke - 1853 - 588 sider
...Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours ; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...about a certain fixed meaning ; whereby, besides the case of it, they obtain this advantage, that as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so... | |
 | John Oswald - 1854 - 608 sider
...uncertain notions. They use their undetermined words confidently, without much troubling their heads with a fixed meaning ; whereby, besides the ease of it, they...right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong : it being just the same, to go about to draw these persons out of their mistakes,... | |
 | John Locke, James Augustus St. John - 1854 - 576 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage, that, as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong; it being... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use among their neighbours ; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning : wheieby, besides the ease of it, they obtain tliie advantage, that as in such discourses they seldom... | |
 | Hannah More - 1856 - 578 sider
...notions. They use these undetermined words confidently, without much troubling their heads about a cOlain fixed meaning, whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain this advantage, that as in such discourse they are seldom in the right, so they arc seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong,... | |
 | Hannah More - 1856 - 630 sider
...notions. They use these undetermined words confidently, without much troubling their heads about acerlain fixed meaning, whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain this advantage, that asín such discourse they are seldom in the right, so they are seldom to bo convinced that they are... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1860 - 506 sider
...them. Men take the words they find in use among their neighbours, and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without...obtain this advantage, that as in such discourses they seldom are in the right, so they are as seldom to be convinced that they are in the wrong ; it being... | |
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Men take the words they find in use amongst their neighbours; and that they may not seem ignorant what they stand for, use them confidently, without much troubling their heads about a certain fixed meaning; whereby, besides the ease of it, they obtain... 
