 | John Stuart Mill - Economists - 1873 - 344 pages
...promptings. This example illustrates well the general character of what she contributed to my writings. What was abstract and purely scientific was generally...speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment. For, on the one hand, she was much more courageous and far-sighted than without her I should have been,... | |
 | Scotland - 1874 - 804 pages
...Political Economy' illustrates the general character of Mrs. Taylor's contributions to his writings. " What was abstract and purely scientific was generally...mine — the properly human element came from her." That this was so in the main we do not doubt ; and if it were so to the extent he describes, the readers... | |
 | England - 1874 - 802 pages
...Political Economy ' illustrates the general character of Mrs Taylor's contributions to his writings. " What was abstract and purely scientific was generally...mine — the properly human element came from her." That this was so in the main we do not doubt ; and if it -were so to the extent he describes, the readers... | |
 | James Simson - American literature - 1875 - 222 pages
...his own ' cogitations,' and sometimes those of others] ; the proper human element [or common sense] came from her : in all that concerned the application...exigencies of human society and progress, I was her pupil " (p. 247). " Her practical turn of mind, and her almost unerring estimate of practical obstacles,... | |
 | 1875 - 836 pages
...He says — " In all that concerns the application of philosophy to the exigencies of human society I was her pupil, alike in boldness of speculation and cautiousness of practical judgement." All the instances that he gives of this tend to show how our progress would be accelerated... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1882 - 920 pages
...quite exceptional sympathies and faculties " on the part of Mill's fellow-talker." Mill himself said, " What was abstract and purely scientific was generally...speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment." Dr. Bain admits that, in such statements, NEW SERIES.— VOL. XXXVI., No. 1 " we are enabled to form... | |
 | American literature - 1882 - 884 pages
...quite exceptional sympathies and faculties " on the part of Mill's fellow-talker." Mill himself said, " What was abstract and purely scientific was generally...speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment." Dr. Bain admits that, in such statements, NEW SERIES.— VOL. XXXVI., No. i " we are enabled to form... | |
 | 1882 - 816 pages
...what Mr. Ellis said of his mental tendency, in the passage in which he declares about his wife, that ' in all that concerned the application of philosophy...to the exigencies of human society and progress, I washer pupil.' Ellis's first published writings appeared in the earliest numbers of the ' Westminster... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1882 - 1190 pages
...what Mr. Ellis said of his mental tendency, in the passage in which he declares about his wife, that ' in all that concerned the application of philosophy...to the exigencies of human society and progress, I washer pupil.' Ellis's first published writings appeared in the earliest numbers of the ' Westminster... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Painters - 1906 - 638 pages
...of" Political Economy" that had any pretension to being scientific, and which has made it so 98 HAT was abstract and purely scientific was generally mine...speculation and cautiousness of practical judgment. For, on the one hand, I was much more courageous and far-sighted than without her I should have been,... | |
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What was abstract and purely scientific was generally mine; the properly human element came from her: in all that concerned the application of philosophy to the exigencies of human society and progress, I was her pupil, alike in boldness of speculation... 
