The works of John Locke. To which is added the life of the author and a collection of several of his pieces, publ. by mr. Desmaizeaux, Volume 21823 |
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... give an account of the idea of distinct sub- stances , such as oak , elephant , iron , & c . how , though they are made * In his first letter to the bishop of Worcester . knows not what support of such qualities , which are 2 Book 2 ...
... give an account of the idea of distinct sub- stances , such as oak , elephant , iron , & c . how , though they are made * In his first letter to the bishop of Worcester . knows not what support of such qualities , which are 2 Book 2 ...
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... give this satisfactory answer , that it is something : which in truth signifies no more , when so used either by children or men , but that they know not what ; and that the thing they pretend to know and talk of is what they have no ...
... give this satisfactory answer , that it is something : which in truth signifies no more , when so used either by children or men , but that they know not what ; and that the thing they pretend to know and talk of is what they have no ...
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... give this satisfactory answer , That it is something ; " your lordship seems mightily to lay to heart in these words that follow : If this be the truth of the case , we must still talk like children , and I know not how it can be ...
... give this satisfactory answer , That it is something ; " your lordship seems mightily to lay to heart in these words that follow : If this be the truth of the case , we must still talk like children , and I know not how it can be ...
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... give me the clear and distinct ideas of these , which I only call by the general name , things , that have or have not supports : for such there are , and such I shall give your lordship clear and distinct ideas of , when you shall ...
... give me the clear and distinct ideas of these , which I only call by the general name , things , that have or have not supports : for such there are , and such I shall give your lordship clear and distinct ideas of , when you shall ...
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... gives us a clear and distinct idea of substance , how does that prove , That upon my principles we can come to no certainty of reason , that there is any such thing as substance in the world ? Which is the proposition to be proved . As ...
... gives us a clear and distinct idea of substance , how does that prove , That upon my principles we can come to no certainty of reason , that there is any such thing as substance in the world ? Which is the proposition to be proved . As ...
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Page 78 - 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 74 - 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 55 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Page 288 - ... are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment, and so indeed are perfect cheats : and therefore however laudable or allowable oratory may render them in harangues and popular addresses, they are certainly, in all discourses that pretend to inform or instruct, wholly to be avoided ; and where truth and knowledge are concerned, cannot but be thought a great fault, either of the language or person that makes use of them.
Page 333 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 159 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Page 334 - Haec ubi dicta dedit, lacrimantem et multa volentem 790 dicere deseruit, tenuesque recessit in auras. Ter conatus ibi collo dare bracchia circum ; ter frustra comprensa manus effugit imago, par levibus ventis volucrique simillima somno.
Page 72 - 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 169 - ... 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 158 - Conceptions; and to make them stand as marks for the Ideas within his own Mind, whereby they might be made known to others, and the Thoughts of Men's Minds be conveyed from one to another.