 | Robert Steel - 1890 - 680 Seiten
...favourably noticed. In the History of the Works of the Learned for November 1739, it is credited with " incontestable marks of a great capacity, of a soaring...genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised." In 1740, Hume added the third part, "On Morals." He was then twenty-nine. In 1741 he published a volume... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1896 - 346 Seiten
...1739. 1 Whoever the reviewer may have been, he was a man of discernment, for he says that the work bears " incontestable marks of a great capacity, of...genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised ;" and he adds, that we shall probably have reason to consider " this, compared with the later productions,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1909 - 234 Seiten
...1739. t Whoever the reviewer may have been, he was a man of discernment, for he says that the work bears " incontestable marks of a great capacity, of...genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised;" and he adds, that we shall probably have reason to consider " this, compared with the later productions,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1914 - 344 Seiten
...November, 1739.* Whoever the reviewer may have been, he was a man of discernment, for he says that the work bears " incontestable marks of a great capacity, of...genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised; " and he adds, that we shall probably have reason to consider " this, compared with the later productions,... | |
 | Ernest Campbell Mossner - 2001 - 768 Seiten
...some Particulars in his Performance, that may require a very serious Reconsideration. It bears indeed incontestable Marks of a great Capacity, of a soaring...Genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised. The Subject is vast and noble as any that can exercise the Understanding ; but it requires a very mature... | |
 | Marina Frasca-Spada - 2002 - 252 Seiten
...some Particulars in his Performance, that may require a very serious Reconsideration. It bears indeed incontestable Marks of a great Capacity, of a soaring Genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practiced. The Subject is vast and noble as any that can exercise the Understanding; but it requires... | |
 | David Hume - 1938 - 72 Seiten
...abusive" (Greig, Letters, Vol. i, p. 38). Yet the reviewer had written of his book: "It bears, indeed, incontestable marks of a great capacity, of a soaring...genius, but young and not yet thoroughly practised. The subject is vast and noble as any that can exercise the understanding ; but it requires a very mature... | |
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It bears incontestable marks of a great capacity, of a soaring genius, but young, and not yet thoroughly practised. Time and use may ripen these qualities in the author, and we shall probably have reason to consider this, compared with his later productions,... 
