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... consider myself as liable to mistakes as I can think thee ; and know , that this book must stand or fall with thee , not by any opinion I have of it , but by thy own . If thou findest little in it new or in- structive to thee , thou art ...
... consider myself as liable to mistakes as I can think thee ; and know , that this book must stand or fall with thee , not by any opinion I have of it , but by thy own . If thou findest little in it new or in- structive to thee , thou art ...
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... consider the discerning faculties of a man , as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with : and I shall imagine I have not wholly misemployed myself in the thoughts I shall have on this occasion , if , in this ...
... consider the discerning faculties of a man , as they are employed about the objects which they have to do with : and I shall imagine I have not wholly misemployed myself in the thoughts I shall have on this occasion , if , in this ...
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John Locke. time consider the fondness and devotion wherewith they are em- braced , the resolution and eagerness wherewith they are maintained , may perhaps have reason to suspect , that either there is no such thing as truth at all ; or ...
John Locke. time consider the fondness and devotion wherewith they are em- braced , the resolution and eagerness wherewith they are maintained , may perhaps have reason to suspect , that either there is no such thing as truth at all ; or ...
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... consider the Lawgiver that prescribed these rules , nor the hell that he has ordained for the punishment of those that transgress them . 7. Men's actions convince us that the rule of virtue is not their internal principle . - For , if ...
... consider the Lawgiver that prescribed these rules , nor the hell that he has ordained for the punishment of those that transgress them . 7. Men's actions convince us that the rule of virtue is not their internal principle . - For , if ...
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... consider that divine justice will bring to judgment , at the last day , the very same persons to be happy or ... considers the ideas he comprehends in it , " whole or part , " are perfectly relative ; but the positive ideas to which they ...
... consider that divine justice will bring to judgment , at the last day , the very same persons to be happy or ... considers the ideas he comprehends in it , " whole or part , " are perfectly relative ; but the positive ideas to which they ...
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Page 243 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 417 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Page 54 - 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 374 - But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheat...
Page 195 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Page 8 - It is an established opinion amongst some men, that there are in the understanding certain innate principles ; some primary notions. Koiral twotru, characters, as it were, stamped upon the mind of man, which the soul receives in its very first being ; and brings into the world with it.
Page 178 - 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 4 - I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Page 240 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 387 - SINCE the mind in all its thoughts and reasonings, hath no other immediate object but its own ideas, which it alone does or can contemplate, it is evident that our knowledge is only conversant about them.