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... perhaps , it will not be unacceptable , that I have taken some 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 ...
... perhaps , it will not be unacceptable , that I have taken some 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 ...
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... perhaps have reason to suspect , that either there is no such thing as truth at all ; or that mankind hath no sufficient means to attain a certain knowledge of it . 3. Method . It is , therefore , worth while to search out the bounds ...
... perhaps have reason to suspect , that either there is no such thing as truth at all ; or that mankind hath no sufficient means to attain a certain knowledge of it . 3. Method . It is , therefore , worth while to search out the bounds ...
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... perhaps be said , that mathematical demonstrations , and other truths , that are not innate , are not assented to , as soon as proposed , wherein they are distinguished from these maxims , and other innate truths . I shall have occasion ...
... perhaps be said , that mathematical demonstrations , and other truths , that are not innate , are not assented to , as soon as proposed , wherein they are distinguished from these maxims , and other innate truths . I shall have occasion ...
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... perhaps will not be found so great as is generally conceived , when it comes in its due place to be more fully considered . 21. These maxims not being known sometimes until proposed , proves them not innate . - But we have not yet done ...
... perhaps will not be found so great as is generally conceived , when it comes in its due place to be more fully considered . 21. These maxims not being known sometimes until proposed , proves them not innate . - But we have not yet done ...
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... perhaps , before the same child will assent to this proposition , " that it is impossible for the same thing to be , and not to be ; " because that though , perhaps , the words are as easy to be learned , yet the signification of them ...
... perhaps , before the same child will assent to this proposition , " that it is impossible for the same thing to be , and not to be ; " because that though , perhaps , the words are as easy to be learned , yet the signification of them ...
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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.