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... discourse ; which having been thus begun by chance , was continued by entreaty , written by incoherent parcels ; and after long intervals of neglect , resumed again , as my humour or occasions permitted ; and at last , in a retirement ...
... discourse ; which having been thus begun by chance , was continued by entreaty , written by incoherent parcels ; and after long intervals of neglect , resumed again , as my humour or occasions permitted ; and at last , in a retirement ...
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... discourses . I know there are not words enough in any language , to answer all the variety of ideas that enter into ... discourse . Where he does not , or cannot , do this , he in vain pretends to clear or distinct ideas : it is plain ...
... discourses . I know there are not words enough in any language , to answer all the variety of ideas that enter into ... discourse . Where he does not , or cannot , do this , he in vain pretends to clear or distinct ideas : it is plain ...
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... discourse , with more advan- tage and satisfaction in the other . 8. What idea stands for . - Thus much I thought necessary to say concerning the occasion of this Inquiry into Human Under- standing . But , before I proceed on to what I ...
... discourse , with more advan- tage and satisfaction in the other . 8. What idea stands for . - Thus much I thought necessary to say concerning the occasion of this Inquiry into Human Under- standing . But , before I proceed on to what I ...
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... discourse . Thus , and thus only , I humbly conceive any one may preserve himself from the confines and suspicion of jar- gon , whether he pleases to call those immediate objects of his mind , which his words do , or should stand for ...
... discourse . Thus , and thus only , I humbly conceive any one may preserve himself from the confines and suspicion of jar- gon , whether he pleases to call those immediate objects of his mind , which his words do , or should stand for ...
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... discourse ) how men , barely by the use of their natural faculties , may attain to all the knowledge they have , without the help of any innate impressions ; and may arrive at certainty , without any such original notions or principles ...
... discourse ) how men , barely by the use of their natural faculties , may attain to all the knowledge they have , without the help of any innate impressions ; and may arrive at certainty , without any such original notions or principles ...
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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.