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Page vii
... pains , ill bestowed . Mis- take not this for a commendation of my work ; nor conclude , because I was pleased with the doing of it , that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no ...
... pains , ill bestowed . Mis- take not this for a commendation of my work ; nor conclude , because I was pleased with the doing of it , that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no ...
Page viii
... pains to make plain and familiar to their thoughts some truths , which established prejudice , or the abstractedness of the ideas themselves , might render difficult . Some objects had need be turned on every side ; and when the notion ...
... pains to make plain and familiar to their thoughts some truths , which established prejudice , or the abstractedness of the ideas themselves , might render difficult . Some objects had need be turned on every side ; and when the notion ...
Page ix
... pains to read it . I have so little affectation to be in print , that if I were not flattered this Essay might be of some use to others , as I think it has been to me , I should have confined it to the view of some friends , who gave ...
... pains to read it . I have so little affectation to be in print , that if I were not flattered this Essay might be of some use to others , as I think it has been to me , I should have confined it to the view of some friends , who gave ...
Page xi
... pains to read ought to employ in reading ; or else , that I have written mine so obscurely , that it is in vain to go about to mend it . Whichever of these be truth , it is myself only am affected thereby : and , therefore , I shall be ...
... pains to read ought to employ in reading ; or else , that I have written mine so obscurely , that it is in vain to go about to mend it . Whichever of these be truth , it is myself only am affected thereby : and , therefore , I shall be ...
Page 1
... pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But whatever be the difficul- ties that lie in the way of this inquiry , whatever it be that keeps us so much in the dark to ourselves , sure I am , that all the light we can ...
... pains to set it at a distance , and make it its own object . But whatever be the difficul- ties that lie in the way of this inquiry , whatever it be that keeps us so much in the dark to ourselves , sure I am , that all the light we can ...
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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.