 | George Croom Robertson - 1894 - 520 sider
...of that strain," he thought it " ambition enough to be employed as an underlabourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge". In words of too great modesty, we have here from Locke himself a statemeift of the true work of philosophy... | |
 | George Croom Robertson - 1894 - 520 sider
...of that strain," he thought it " ambition enough to be employed as an underJabourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge". In words of too great modesty, we have here from Locke himself a statement of the true work of philosophy... | |
 | John Locke - 1901 - 156 sider
...some others of that strain, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-laborer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge." Locke met Newton after the publication of the " Essay," and they became close friends. The law of gravitation... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1902 - 678 sider
...Mr. Newton, with some other of that strain, 'tis ambition enough to be employed as an under labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge." Locke interested himself long and warmly in attempting to obtain for Newton some lucrative appointment... | |
 | Benno Erdmann - 1904 - 160 sider
...selbst für diesen 1 „it is ambition enough to be employed äs an under - labourer in Clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge ..." LOCKE, An Essay coneerning Human Understanding , Epistle to the Reader. Umfang nur in den ersten... | |
 | Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 540 sider
...the incomparable Mr. Newton, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-laborer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish...been very much more advanced in the world, if the endeavors of ingenious and industrious men had not been much cumbered with the learned but frivolous... | |
 | Jay William Hudson - 1911 - 150 sider
...rather than metaphysical interests. Locke aims to be an "under-laborer" in the same realm, "clearing the ground a little and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge." It would seem that a search into the final grounds of induction would have been an important task in... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1928 - 620 sider
...designated himself as beside the "incomparable Mr. Newton, an under laborer, employed in clearing the ground and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge",1 nor that Pope wrote as a couplet for Newton's tomb in Westminster Abbey: Nature and Nature's... | |
 | J. Peter Euben - 1997 - 287 sider
...Apollo but Dionysus. But most of "us" are, appropriately enough, Lockean underlaborers "clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge.53 But then how do we answer Nietzsche or teach Socrates? I am not sure. In Aeschylus's... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sider
...designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiratlon of posterity ... 'tis ribed In one self place, where we are is Hell, And...dissolves, And every creature shall be purified. Al of knowledge. 6427 An Essay concerning Human Understanding General propositlons are seldom mentloned... | |
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Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge... 
