 Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.  The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Strona 57autor: George Campbell - 1849 - Liczba stron: 455Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - Liczba stron: 270
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1849 - Liczba stron: 542
...rectilineal triangle amount to more or less than two right angles ; or that nowhere is it possible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; or finally, that nowhere could three individuals make up a unity which shall be the same in all respects... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - Liczba stron: 270
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - Liczba stron: 352
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - Liczba stron: 354
...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - Liczba stron: 430
...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter.... | |
 | Joseph Bellamy - 1850 - Liczba stron: 760
...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction ; for it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity ; therefore the gospel did not call Adam after his fall... | |
 | John Dick - 1850 - Liczba stron: 560
...this perfection which are afforded by his works. First, God cannot work contradictions, as to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; to make a part greater than the whole ; to make what is past, present ; or what is present, future.... | |
 | Henry Augustus Rowland - 1850 - Liczba stron: 320
...and then destroy it ; but he cannot create a world and not create it at the same time. He cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; he cannot make two and two five ; nor a triangle and circle of the same linear shape, because these... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1851 - Liczba stron: 604
...or absurd, or what is, from the very nature of the case, impossible. For example ; he cannot cause a thing to be and not to be, at the same time, and in the same respect. Or, he cannot cause a part of a thing to be greater than the whole of it.... | |
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