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... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no less sport , though a much less considerable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game : and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no less sport , though a much less considerable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game : and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
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... taken upon trust from others , it is no great matter what they are , they are not following truth , but some meaner consideration ; and it is not worth while to be concerned , what he says or thinks , who says or thinks only as he is ...
... taken upon trust from others , it is no great matter what they are , they are not following truth , but some meaner consideration ; and it is not worth while to be concerned , what he says or thinks , who says or thinks only as he is ...
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... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no less sport , though a much less considerable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
... taken with it now it is done . He that hawks at larks and sparrows , has no less sport , though a much less considerable quarry , than he that flies at nobler game and he is little acquainted with the subject of this treatise , the ...
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... taken upon trust from others , it is no great matter what they are , they are not following truth , but some meaner consideration ; and it is not worth while to be concerned , what he says or thinks , who says or thinks only as he is ...
... taken upon trust from others , it is no great matter what they are , they are not following truth , but some meaner consideration ; and it is not worth while to be concerned , what he says or thinks , who says or thinks only as he is ...
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... taken some pains to make plain and familiar to their thoughts some truths , which established prejudice , or the abstracted- ness of the ideas themselves , might render difficult . Some objects had need be turned on every side ; and ...
... taken some pains to make plain and familiar to their thoughts some truths , which established prejudice , or the abstracted- ness of the ideas themselves , might render difficult . Some objects had need be turned on every side ; and ...
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Page 73 - 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 all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 74 - This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense, as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called internal sense...
Page 74 - Secondly, the other fountain from which experience furnisheth the understanding with ideas, is the perception of the operations of our own mind within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got, which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas, which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Page 132 - 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; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being mis-led by similitude, and by affinity, to take one thing for another.
Page 475 - And, when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe, and the great design and infinite goodness of the Architect, that the species of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us toward His infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downward...
Page 75 - The understanding seems to me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. EXTERNAL OBJECTS furnish the mind with the ideas of sensible qualities, which are all those different perceptions they produce in us; and THE MIND furnishes the understanding with ideas of its own operations.
Page 256 - 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 333 - For should the soul of a prince, carrying with it the consciousness of the prince's past life, enter and inform the body of a cobbler, as soon as deserted by his own soul, every one sees he would be the same person with the prince, accountable only for the prince's actions ; but who would say it was the same man...
Page 106 - ... produced in us only by different degrees and modes of motion in our animal spirits, variously agitated by external objects, the abatement of any former motion must as necessarily produce a new sensation as the variation or increase of it; and so introduce a new idea, which depends only on a different motion of the animal spirits in that organ.