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... persons , and so by no means can be supposed innate ; it being impossible that any truth which is innate ( if there were any such ) should be un- known , at least to any one who knows any thing else . Since , if they are innate truths ...
... persons , and so by no means can be supposed innate ; it being impossible that any truth which is innate ( if there were any such ) should be un- known , at least to any one who knows any thing else . Since , if they are innate truths ...
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... may be observed in all persons , and all ages , steady and universal ; but these are inclinations of the appetite to good , not impressions of truth on the understanding . I deny 26 Book 1 . NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES .
... may be observed in all persons , and all ages , steady and universal ; but these are inclinations of the appetite to good , not impressions of truth on the understanding . I deny 26 Book 1 . NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES .
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... persons to be happy or miserable in the other , who did well or ill in this life , will find it , perhaps , not easy to resolve with himself , what makes the same man , or wherein identity consists ; and will not be forward to think he ...
... persons to be happy or miserable in the other , who did well or ill in this life , will find it , perhaps , not easy to resolve with himself , what makes the same man , or wherein identity consists ; and will not be forward to think he ...
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... person in the world who has a notion of a God , who has not also the idea of fire . I doubt not , but if a colony of young children should be placed in an island where no fire was , they would certainly have neither any notion of such a ...
... person in the world who has a notion of a God , who has not also the idea of fire . I doubt not , but if a colony of young children should be placed in an island where no fire was , they would certainly have neither any notion of such a ...
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... person hath , by talk , put such a notion into his head , he may , perhaps , believe it ; but if he hath never examined it , his know- ledge of it will be no perfecter than his , who having been told , that the three angles of a ...
... person hath , by talk , put such a notion into his head , he may , perhaps , believe it ; but if he hath never examined it , his know- ledge of it will be no perfecter than his , who having been told , that the three angles of a ...
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Page 60 - Let us then, suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience; in that ah1 our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 473 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 271 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 105 - And hence, perhaps, may be given some reason of that common observation, that men who have a great deal of wit, and prompt memories, have not always the clearest judgment, or deepest reason. For wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures, and agreeable visions, in the fancy...
Page 276 - 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 326 - The ideas of -goblins and sprites have really no more to do with darkness than light : yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind of a child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives ; but darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be so joined, that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Page iv - Truth scarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance; new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. But truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine.
Page 221 - 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 202 - God ; 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 60 - ... 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. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and derived by them to the understanding, I call, SENSATION.