An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1828 - Knowledge, Theory of |
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... notice of his letter to the earl of * * , dated May 6 , 1676 , with a curious old MS . on the subject of Free - masonry , published in the Gentleman's Magazine for September , 1758 . We are informed , that there is a great number of ...
... notice of his letter to the earl of * * , dated May 6 , 1676 , with a curious old MS . on the subject of Free - masonry , published in the Gentleman's Magazine for September , 1758 . We are informed , that there is a great number of ...
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... notice comes unhappily too late to be made use of on the present occasion , I can only take the liberty of intimating it along with some other sources of intelligence , which I have en- deavoured to lay open , and which may probably ...
... notice comes unhappily too late to be made use of on the present occasion , I can only take the liberty of intimating it along with some other sources of intelligence , which I have en- deavoured to lay open , and which may probably ...
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... notice of it , that I might , if I had leisure , make any additions or alterations I should think fit . Whereupon I thought it convenient to ad- vertise the reader , that besides several corrections I had made here and there , there was ...
... notice of it , that I might , if I had leisure , make any additions or alterations I should think fit . Whereupon I thought it convenient to ad- vertise the reader , that besides several corrections I had made here and there , there was ...
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... notice of itself ; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But , whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this inquiry ; what- ever it be , that keeps us so much in the dark to our ...
... notice of itself ; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But , whatever be the difficulties that lie in the way of this inquiry ; what- ever it be , that keeps us so much in the dark to our ...
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... notice of them , unless I had found them ein- ployed about doing mischief . ' To which our author replies , It is plain , that that which your lordship apprehends , in my book , may be of dangerous consequence to the article which your ...
... notice of them , unless I had found them ein- ployed about doing mischief . ' To which our author replies , It is plain , that that which your lordship apprehends , in my book , may be of dangerous consequence to the article which your ...
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Page 84 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Page xlvii - ... on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course : and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 83 - First, Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have, of Yellow, White, Heat, Cold, Soft, Hard, Bitter, Sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions.
Page 120 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts.
Page 119 - ... are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject; most of those of sensation being in the mind no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us. 8. Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea ; and the power to proLocke, Essay, Book II, chapter viii.
Page xxxiv - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 82 - Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks, and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, "whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness,
Page 278 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life: But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Page 122 - ... it being no more impossible to conceive that God should annex such ideas to such motions with which they have no similitude, than that he should annex the idea of pain to the motion of a piece of steel dividing our flesh, with which that idea hath no resemblance.
Page 119 - To discover the nature of our ideas the better, and to discourse of them intelligibly, it will be convenient to distinguish them, as they are ideas or perceptions in our minds, and as they are modifications of matter in the bodies that cause such perceptions in us; that so we may not think (as perhaps usually is done) that they are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject: most of those of sensation being in the mind no more the likeness of something existing without...