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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... the species . Instance , gold . 36. Though nature makes the similitude . 37. And continues it in the races of things . 38. Each abstract idea is an essence . 39. Genera and species are in order to naming . X. Contents .
... the species . Instance , gold . 36. Though nature makes the similitude . 37. And continues it in the races of things . 38. Each abstract idea is an essence . 39. Genera and species are in order to naming . X. Contents .
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... nature's working always regularly . 21. This abuse contains two false suppositions . 22. Sixthly , a supposition that words have a certain and evi- dent signification . 23. The ends of language : first , to convey our ideas . 24 ...
... nature's working always regularly . 21. This abuse contains two false suppositions . 22. Sixthly , a supposition that words have a certain and evi- dent signification . 23. The ends of language : first , to convey our ideas . 24 ...
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... nature of substance in general , all the ideas we have of particular distinct substances are nothing but several combinations of simple ideas , co- existing in such , though unknown cause of their union , as makes the whole subsist of ...
... nature of substance in general , all the ideas we have of particular distinct substances are nothing but several combinations of simple ideas , co- existing in such , though unknown cause of their union , as makes the whole subsist of ...
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... nature or sub- stance of spirit , as we have of body ; the one being supposed to be ( without knowing what it is ) the substratum to those simple ideas we have from without ; and the other supposed ( with a like igno-- rance of what it ...
... nature or sub- stance of spirit , as we have of body ; the one being supposed to be ( without knowing what it is ) the substratum to those simple ideas we have from without ; and the other supposed ( with a like igno-- rance of what it ...
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... nature to need no prop to lean on for its support ; therefore he hath a clear and distinct idea of a cedar of Lebanon : which clear and distinct idea , when he comes to examine , is nothing but a general one of a tree , with which his ...
... nature to need no prop to lean on for its support ; therefore he hath a clear and distinct idea of a cedar of Lebanon : which clear and distinct idea , when he comes to examine , is nothing but a general one of a tree , with which his ...
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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.