Tracy is, in my judgment, the ablest writer living on intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since written, I have not entirely read; because... France in 1829-30 - Page 134by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1830Full view - About this book
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...and unapplied immediately to some useful science. Buonaparte, with his repeated derisions of Ideologists (squinting at this author) has by this time... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...and unapplied immediately to some useful science. Buonaparte, with his repeated derisions of Ideologists (squinting at this author) has by this time... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 662 pages
...fond of reading what is merely abstract, and unapplied immediately to some useful science. Buonaparte, with his repeated derisions of Ideologists (squinting...in mere practice without principle. The next work Tracy wrote was the Commentary on Montesquieu, never published in the original, because not safe ;... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since written, I have not entirely read; because I atn not fond of reading what is merely abstract, and unapplied immediately to some useful science.... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1830 - 550 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His tbree octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...in mere practice without principle. The next work Tracy wrote was the Commentary on Montesquieu, never published in the original, because not safe ;... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...in mere practice without principle. The next work Tracy wrote was the Commentary on Montesquieu, never published in the original, because not safe ;... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 676 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...true wisdom does not lie in mere practice without principlo. The next work Tracy wrote was the Commentary on Montesquieu, never published in the original,... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1859 - 746 pages
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since...in mere practice without principle. The next work Tracy wrote was the Commentary on Montesquieu, never published in the original, because not safe ;... | |
| Cornelis Henri de Witt - 1862 - 496 pages
...Tracy himself could not long command Jefferson's attention to pure theories : ' I am not,' said he, ' fond of reading what is merely abstract, and unapplied immediately to some useful science.' f This taste for the positive, especially towards the close of his life, runs through all his literary... | |
| Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903
...intellectual subjects, or the operations of the understanding. His three octavo volumes on Ideology, which constitute the foundation of what he has since written, I have not entirely read; jjjecause I am not fond of reading what is merely abstract, and unapplied immediately to some useful... | |
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