 Perhaps it was for mankind a lucky mistake (for it was a mistake) which Mr. Locke made when he called his book, An Essay on Human Understanding. For some part of the inestimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its title, reached to many...  An Essay on the Study of Antiquities.. - Page 115by Thomas Burgess - 1782 - 142 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1821 - 678 pages
...of that book has'' added he, " merely on account of its title, reached to many thousands more than 1 fear it would have done, had he called it (what it is namely) A Grammatical Essay, or a Treatise on Words or Language. The human mind, or human understanding.... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1798 - 554 pages
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 | John Horne Tooke - English language - 1798 - 566 pages
...Locke made when he called his book, An Efiay on Human Utiderfianding. For fome part of the ineftimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its...had he called it (what it is merely) A Grammatical Efiay, or a Treatife on Words, or on Language. The human mind, or the human underftanding, appears... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 558 pages
...part of the inestimable benefit of that book has, merely on account of its title, reached to thousands more than, I fear, it would have done, had he called it a Grammatical JEsgny. The human mind, or the human understanding, appears to be a grand and noble theme,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 552 pages
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 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
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 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1817 - 464 pages
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 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1820 - 968 pages
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 | 1821 - 488 pages
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 | Philip Withers - English language - 1822 - 414 pages
...the inestimable Benefit of that Book has, merely on account of its Title, reached to many Thousands more than, I fear, it would have done, had he called it (what it is merely) A Grammatical Essay, or a Treatise on Words, or on Language. The human Mind, or the human Understanding, appears... | |
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