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... amongst those things which the law of nature hath forbidden ; but are not necessary to be mentioned , nor are pertinent enough to this place . " But , in the second place , man is under moral obligation , i.e. , is obligated by a law of ...
... amongst those things which the law of nature hath forbidden ; but are not necessary to be mentioned , nor are pertinent enough to this place . " But , in the second place , man is under moral obligation , i.e. , is obligated by a law of ...
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... amongst which the frequency of insignificant speech is one . CHAPTER II . Of Imagination . THAT When a thing lies still , unless somewhat else stir it , it will lie still for ever , is a truth that no man doubts of . But that when a ...
... amongst which the frequency of insignificant speech is one . CHAPTER II . Of Imagination . THAT When a thing lies still , unless somewhat else stir it , it will lie still for ever , is a truth that no man doubts of . But that when a ...
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... amongst many strokes , which our eyes , ears , and other organs receive from external bodies , the predominant only is sensible ; therefore , the light of the sun being pre- dominant , we are not affected with the action of the stars ...
... amongst many strokes , which our eyes , ears , and other organs receive from external bodies , the predominant only is sensible ; therefore , the light of the sun being pre- dominant , we are not affected with the action of the stars ...
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... amongst men , neither commonwealth , nor society , nor contract , nor peace , no more than amongst lions , bears , and wolves . The first author of " speech was God himself , that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as he ...
... amongst men , neither commonwealth , nor society , nor contract , nor peace , no more than amongst lions , bears , and wolves . The first author of " speech was God himself , that instructed Adam how to name such creatures as he ...
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... amongst the faculties of the mind . For " rea- son , " in this sense , is nothing but " reckoning , " that is add- ing and subtracting , of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the " marking " and " signifying " of our ...
... amongst the faculties of the mind . For " rea- son , " in this sense , is nothing but " reckoning , " that is add- ing and subtracting , of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the " marking " and " signifying " of our ...
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Page 355 - Moses' seat : all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do ; but do not ye after their works : for they say, and do not.
Page 145 - The RIGHT OF NATURE, which writers commonly call jus naturale, is the liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own judgment, and reason, he shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto...
Page 6 - STATE, in Latin CIVITAS, which is but an artificial man; though of greater stature and strength than the natural, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which the sovereignty is an artificial soul...
Page 15 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 30 - The desires and other passions of man are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions, till they know a law that forbids them; which, till laws be made, they cannot know: nor can any law be made till they have agreed upon the person that shall make it.
Page 31 - A law of nature, lex naturalis, is a precept or general rule, found out by reason, by which a man is forbidden to do that which is destructive of his life, or taketh away the means of preserving the same; and to omit that by which he thinketh it may be best preserved.
Page 31 - Justice, and injustice are none of the faculties neither of the body, nor mind. If they were, they might be in a man that were alone in the world, as well as his senses, and passions. They are qualities, that relate to men in society, not in solitude.
Page 13 - Pity is imagination or fiction of future calamity to ourselves, proceeding from the sense of another man's calamity. But when it lighteth on such as we think have not deserved the same, the compassion is greater, because then there appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man.
Page 340 - It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be made manifest in him.
Page 177 - THE final cause, end, or design of men, who naturally love liberty, and dominion over others, in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, in which we see them live in commonwealths, is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby...