An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Author's Last Additions and Corrections; and an Analysis of the Doctrine of Ideas. Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. Of the Conduct of the Understanding |
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... measures of the certainty of our knowledge , or the grounds of those persuasions , which are to be found amongst men , so various , different , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted somewhere or other with such assurance and ...
... measures of the certainty of our knowledge , or the grounds of those persuasions , which are to be found amongst men , so various , different , and wholly contradictory ; and yet asserted somewhere or other with such assurance and ...
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... measures whereby a rational crea- ture , put in that state which man is in , in this world , may and ought to govern his opinions and actions depending thereon , we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge . §7 ...
... measures whereby a rational crea- ture , put in that state which man is in , in this world , may and ought to govern his opinions and actions depending thereon , we need not be troubled that some other things escape our knowledge . §7 ...
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... measures of right and wrong , cannot but be looked on as the professed enemy of their peace and happiness . Whatever prac- tical principle , is innate , cannot but be known to every one to be just and good . It is , therefore , little ...
... measures of right and wrong , cannot but be looked on as the professed enemy of their peace and happiness . Whatever prac- tical principle , is innate , cannot but be known to every one to be just and good . It is , therefore , little ...
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... , that it will not be true . If virtue be taken for actions con- formable to God's will , or to the rule prescribed by God which is the true and only measure of virtue , when virtue is CH . S. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES . 41.
... , that it will not be true . If virtue be taken for actions con- formable to God's will , or to the rule prescribed by God which is the true and only measure of virtue , when virtue is CH . S. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES . 41.
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... measure of virtue , when virtue is used to signify what is in its nature right and good , then this proposition ... measures and bounds of all virtues and vices , were en- graven in men's minds , and were innate principles also , which ...
... measure of virtue , when virtue is used to signify what is in its nature right and good , then this proposition ... measures and bounds of all virtues and vices , were en- graven in men's minds , and were innate principles also , which ...
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Page 278 - The ideas of goblins- and sprights 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 230 - Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 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 82 - ... [These I call original or primary qualities of body, which I think we may observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz., solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. 10. Secondary qualities. — Secondly. Such qualities, which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities...
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...
Page 16 - It being that term, which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks ; I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking ; and I could not avoid frequently using it (1).
Page 289 - ... general and universal, belong not to the real existence of things ; but are the inventions and creatures of the understanding, made by it for its own use, and concern only signs, whether words or ideas.
Page 283 - ... words in their primary or immediate signification stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses -them, how imperfectly soever or carelessly those ideas are collected from the things which they are supposed to represent.
Page 175 - 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 62 - Let any one examine his own thoughts, and thoroughly search into his understanding, and then let him tell me, whether all the original ideas he has there, are any other than of the objects of his senses, or of the operations of his mind considered as objects of his reflection; and how great a mass of knowledge soever he imagines to be lodged there, he will, upon taking a strict view, see that he has not any idea in his mind but what one of these two have imprinted, though perhaps with infinite variety...
Page 277 - Some of our ideas have a natural correspondence and connexion one with another: it is the office and excellency of our reason to trace these, and hold them together in that union and correspondence which is founded in their peculiar beings.