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... these you have given me fo mighty and peculiar reafons to have , in the highest degree , for your lordship , that if they can add a price to what they go along with , proportionable to their own greatnefs , I can with confidence brag ...
... these you have given me fo mighty and peculiar reafons to have , in the highest degree , for your lordship , that if they can add a price to what they go along with , proportionable to their own greatnefs , I can with confidence brag ...
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... these notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my meaning , I find , is often miftaken , and I have not the good luck to be every where rightly understood . There are fo many ...
... these notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my meaning , I find , is often miftaken , and I have not the good luck to be every where rightly understood . There are fo many ...
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... these maxims . 13. By this , they are not distin- guifhed from other know- able truths . 14. If coming to the use of reafon were the time of their discovery , it would not prove them innate . 15 , 16. The fteps by which the mind attains ...
... these maxims . 13. By this , they are not distin- guifhed from other know- able truths . 14. If coming to the use of reafon were the time of their discovery , it would not prove them innate . 15 , 16. The fteps by which the mind attains ...
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... these univerfal maxims . 20. One and one equal to two , & c . not general , nor useful , answered . 21. Thefe maxims not being known fometimes till pro- posed , proves them not in- nate . 22. Implicitly known before propofing ...
... these univerfal maxims . 20. One and one equal to two , & c . not general , nor useful , answered . 21. Thefe maxims not being known fometimes till pro- posed , proves them not in- nate . 22. Implicitly known before propofing ...
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... These three laws the rules of moral good and evil . 14 , 15. Morality is the relation of actions to these rules . 16. The denominations of ac- tions often mislead us . 17. Relations innumerable . 18. All relations terminate in fimple ...
... These three laws the rules of moral good and evil . 14 , 15. Morality is the relation of actions to these rules . 16. The denominations of ac- tions often mislead us . 17. Relations innumerable . 18. All relations terminate in fimple ...
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Page 80 - ... 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...
Page 310 - From whence it seems probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas.
Page 438 - ... for example. And thus they come to have a general name, and a general idea. Wherein they make nothing new, but only leave out of the complex idea they had of Peter and James, Mary and Jane that which is peculiar to each, and retain only what is common to them all.
Page 142 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Page 355 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come ? 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 80 - ... mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein 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...
Page 224 - ... it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Page 222 - ... by the determination of its own choice; and concluding from what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made, in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways, considers in one thing the possibility of having any of its simple ideas changed, and in another the possibility of making that change ; and so comes by that idea which we call Power.
Page 262 - 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 224 - The idea of the beginning of motion we have only from reflection on what passes in ourselves, where we find by experience, that barely by willing it, barely by a thought of the mind, we can move the parts of our bodies which were before at rest.