The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 - Philosophy |
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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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... seem to me to import ) that we can have as clear and distinct an idea of the general substance , or nature , or essence of the species man , as we have of the particular colour ... seems to me to acknowledge , that Bishop of Worcester . 25.
... seem to me to import ) that we can have as clear and distinct an idea of the general substance , or nature , or essence of the species man , as we have of the particular colour ... seems to me to acknowledge , that Bishop of Worcester . 25.
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... seems to confess in the next words of the same page , where you add : " I do not say , that we can know all essences of things alike , nor that we can attain to a perfect un- derstanding of all that belong to them ; but if we can know ...
... seems to confess in the next words of the same page , where you add : " I do not say , that we can know all essences of things alike , nor that we can attain to a perfect un- derstanding of all that belong to them ; but if we can know ...
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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.