The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 - Philosophy |
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... properties of things ; but our reason is satisfied that there must be something beyond these , because it is impossible that they should subsist by themselves . " So that if this be that which your lordship means by the rational idea of ...
... properties of things ; but our reason is satisfied that there must be something beyond these , because it is impossible that they should subsist by themselves . " So that if this be that which your lordship means by the rational idea of ...
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... properties . And so the substance and essence of a man are the same ; not being taken for the individual substance , which cannot be understood without particular modes and properties ; but the general substance or nature of man ...
... properties . And so the substance and essence of a man are the same ; not being taken for the individual substance , which cannot be understood without particular modes and properties ; but the general substance or nature of man ...
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... properties of a man do inhere , is a very obscure idea ; so in that part our general idea of man is obscure and confused : as also , how that sub- stance is differently modified in the different species of creatures , so as to have ...
... properties of a man do inhere , is a very obscure idea ; so in that part our general idea of man is obscure and confused : as also , how that sub- stance is differently modified in the different species of creatures , so as to have ...
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... properties discover . " That is un- questionably so ; but if those powers and properties discover no more of those internal essences , but that there are internal essences , we shall know only that there are internal essences , but ...
... properties discover . " That is un- questionably so ; but if those powers and properties discover no more of those internal essences , but that there are internal essences , we shall know only that there are internal essences , but ...
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... properties , and then tell me whether your lordship has as clear and di- stinct an idea of what remains , as you have of the figure of the one , or the yellow colour of the other . I must confess the remaining something to me affords so ...
... properties , and then tell me whether your lordship has as clear and di- stinct an idea of what remains , as you have of the figure of the one , or the yellow colour of the other . I must confess the remaining something to me affords so ...
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Page 265 - 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 416 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 263 - 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 35 - 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 75 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Page 285 - And therefore no proposition can be received for divine revelation, or obtain the assent due to all such, if it be contradictory to our clear intuitive knowledge...
Page 275 - 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 51 - I judge it as certain and clear a truth as can any where be delivered, that "the invisible things of God are clearly seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead.
Page 10 - ... yet because we cannot conceive how they should subsist alone, nor one in another, we suppose them existing in, and supported by, some common subject; which support we denote by the name substance...
Page 269 - Which words, dead and they, if supposed to stand precisely for the bodies of the dead, the question will run thus: How are the dead bodies raised? and with what bodies do the dead bodies come 1 Which seems to have no very agreeable sense.