The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... seems not to be inserted for a commendation ; and yet I think he deserves no blame , who owns the having imperfect , inadequate , obscure ideas , where he has no better : however , if it be inferred from thence , that either he almost ...
... seems not to be inserted for a commendation ; and yet I think he deserves no blame , who owns the having imperfect , inadequate , obscure ideas , where he has no better : however , if it be inferred from thence , that either he almost ...
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... 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 remedied . For if we cannot come at a rational idea of substance , we can ...
... 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 remedied . For if we cannot come at a rational idea of substance , we can ...
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... seems to me , not to have the least glimmering of any ideas , which it doth not receive from one of these two ... seem to me to signify something differ- ent from what your lordship has cited out of them ; and if they do not , were ...
... seems to me , not to have the least glimmering of any ideas , which it doth not receive from one of these two ... seem to me to signify something differ- ent from what your lordship has cited out of them ; and if they do not , were ...
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... seems to charge me with two faults : one , that I make " the general idea of substance to be framed , not by ... seem to say so . That I was not speaking of the general idea of sub- stance in the passage your lordship quotes , is ...
... seems to charge me with two faults : one , that I make " the general idea of substance to be framed , not by ... seem to say so . That I was not speaking of the general idea of sub- stance in the passage your lordship quotes , is ...
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... seems to dislike my taking notice , that the derivation of the word substance favours the idea we have of it ; and your lordship tells me , " that very little weight is to be laid on a bare grammatical etymology . " Though little weight ...
... seems to dislike my taking notice , that the derivation of the word substance favours the idea we have of it ; and your lordship tells me , " that very little weight is to be laid on a bare grammatical etymology . " Though little weight ...
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Page 492 - 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 307 - 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 79 - 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 311 - 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 316 - 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 : 38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 395 - If any one asks me what this solidity is? I send him to his senses to inform him : let him put a flint or a foot-ball between his hands, and then endeavour to join them, and he will know.
Page 53 - 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 337 - 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 14 - These, when we have taken a full survey of them and their several modes, combinations, and relations, we shall find to contain all our whole stock of ideas; and that we have nothing in our minds which did not come in one of these two ways.