The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 - Philosophy |
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Page 14
... grant then they contain my sense , viz . " that our understandings can have ( that is , in the natural exercise of our faculties ) * B. ii . c . 1. § 5 . no other simple ideas , but either from sensation or 14 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... grant then they contain my sense , viz . " that our understandings can have ( that is , in the natural exercise of our faculties ) * B. ii . c . 1. § 5 . no other simple ideas , but either from sensation or 14 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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... grant that by sensation and re- flection we come to know the powers and 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 ...
... grant that by sensation and re- flection we come to know the powers and 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 ...
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... your lordship says , is not a mere universal name , or mark , or sign . " Your lordship says it is an idea , and every body must grant it to be an idea ; and therefore it is , in my opinion , safe enough 24 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... your lordship says , is not a mere universal name , or mark , or sign . " Your lordship says it is an idea , and every body must grant it to be an idea ; and therefore it is , in my opinion , safe enough 24 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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... grant it ; but add , that the general idea of substance being the same every where , the modifica- tion of thinking , or the power of thinking joined to it , makes it a spirit , without considering what other mo- difications it has , as ...
... grant it ; but add , that the general idea of substance being the same every where , the modifica- tion of thinking , or the power of thinking joined to it , makes it a spirit , without considering what other mo- difications it has , as ...
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... means an im- material substance in us , as you speak a little far- ther on , I grant what your lordship says is true , that * B. iv . c . 10. § 5 . + Ibid . it cannot , upon these principles , be demonstrated . 36 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... means an im- material substance in us , as you speak a little far- ther on , I grant what your lordship says is true , that * B. iv . c . 10. § 5 . + Ibid . it cannot , upon these principles , be demonstrated . 36 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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Page 472 - 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 287 - 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 291 - 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 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 317 - 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 20 - 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.
Page 423 - ... 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 448 - The gravitation of matter towards matter, by ways unconceivable to me, is not only a demonstration that God can, if he pleases, put into bodies powers, and ways of operation, above what can be derived from our idea of body, or can be explained by what we know of matter, but also an unquestionable, and every where visible instance, that he has done so. And therefore in the next edition of my book, I will take care to have that passage rectified.