An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now first added, i. an analysis of mr. Locke's doctrine of ideas [&c., incl. some] extr. from the author's works, Volume 11828 |
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... thing which he could not bear , it was ill - manners , with which he was always disgusted , unless when it proceeded from ... things , are fit only to make men lose their time in inventing or comprehending them . By the several questions ...
... thing which he could not bear , it was ill - manners , with which he was always disgusted , unless when it proceeded from ... things , are fit only to make men lose their time in inventing or comprehending them . By the several questions ...
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... thing ; " and it was easy for any one to see it , from the manner in which he went about the most trifling things . As Mr. Locke kept utility in view in all his disquisitions , he esteemed the employments of men only in proportion to ...
... thing ; " and it was easy for any one to see it , from the manner in which he went about the most trifling things . As Mr. Locke kept utility in view in all his disquisitions , he esteemed the employments of men only in proportion to ...
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... Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth , or the reader's fancy . But there being no- thing more to be desired for truth than a fair , unpre- judiced hearing , nobody is more likely to procure me that than your lordship ...
... Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth , or the reader's fancy . But there being no- thing more to be desired for truth than a fair , unpre- judiced hearing , nobody is more likely to procure me that than your lordship ...
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... things , was thought unfit , or uncapable to be brought into well - bred company , and polite conversation . Vague and insignificant forms of speech , and abuse of language , have so long passed for mysteries of science ; and hard and ...
... things , was thought unfit , or uncapable to be brought into well - bred company , and polite conversation . Vague and insignificant forms of speech , and abuse of language , have so long passed for mysteries of science ; and hard and ...
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... things useful to us . 6. Knowing the extent of our capacities will hinder us from useless curiosity , scepticism ... thing to be , and not to be not universally assented to . 5. Not on the mind naturally imprinted , because not known to ...
... things useful to us . 6. Knowing the extent of our capacities will hinder us from useless curiosity , scepticism ... thing to be , and not to be not universally assented to . 5. Not on the mind naturally imprinted , because not known to ...
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Page 80 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Page 139 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us ; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching ; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours ; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Page 79 - First, Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the 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.
Page 120 - First, such as are utterly inseparable from the body, in what estate soever it be; such as, in all the alterations and changes it suffers, all the force can be used upon it, it constantly keeps; and such as sense constantly finds in every particle of matter which has bulk enough to be perceived, and the mind finds inseparable from every particle of matter, though less than to make itself singly be perceived by our senses...
Page xxxiv - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 270 - 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 122 - ... it being no more impossible to conceive that God should annex such ideas to such motions with which they have no similitude, than that he should annex the idea of pain to the motion of a piece of steel dividing our flesh, with which that idea hath no resemblance.
Page 120 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.
Page 1 - If by this inquiry into the nature of the understanding, I can discover the powers thereof; how far they reach, to what things they are in any degree proportionate, and where they fail us; I suppose it may be of use to prevail with the busy mind of man to be more cautious in meddling with things exceeding its comprehension; to stop when it is at the utmost extent of its tether; and sit down in a quiet ignorance of those things, which, upon examination, are found to be beyond the reach of our capacities.
Page lxx - I shall not at present meddle with the physical consideration of the mind; or trouble myself to examine wherein its essence consists; or by what motions of our spirits or alterations of our bodies we come to have any sensation by our organs, or any ideas in our understandings; and whether those ideas do in their formation, any or all of them, depend on matter or not.