The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... considering not to subsist of themselves , nor ap- prehending how they can belong to body , or be pro- duced by it , we are apt to think these the actions of some other substance , which we call spirit : whereby yet it is evident , that ...
... considering not to subsist of themselves , nor ap- prehending how they can belong to body , or be pro- duced by it , we are apt to think these the actions of some other substance , which we call spirit : whereby yet it is evident , that ...
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... consider as one simple idea , which indeed is a complication of many ideas together : because , as I have said , not ima- gining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves , we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum ...
... consider as one simple idea , which indeed is a complication of many ideas together : because , as I have said , not ima- gining how these simple ideas can subsist by themselves , we accustom ourselves to suppose some substratum ...
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... considering , & c . which cannot come from a bodily substance . Very true ; but is all this contained in the simple idea of these operations ? How can that be , when the same persons say , that notwithstanding their ideas , it is Bishop ...
... considering , & c . which cannot come from a bodily substance . Very true ; but is all this contained in the simple idea of these operations ? How can that be , when the same persons say , that notwithstanding their ideas , it is Bishop ...
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... considering what other mo- difications it has , as whether it has the modification of solidity or no . As on the other side , substance , that has the modification or solidity , is matter , whether it has the modification of thinking or ...
... considering what other mo- difications it has , as whether it has the modification of solidity or no . As on the other side , substance , that has the modification or solidity , is matter , whether it has the modification of thinking or ...
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... consider what we understand by reason , " made me hope I should here find what your lordship understands by reason ex- plained , that so I might rectify my notion of it , and might be able to avoid the obscurity and confusion which very ...
... consider what we understand by reason , " made me hope I should here find what your lordship understands by reason ex- plained , that so I might rectify my notion of it , and might be able to avoid the obscurity and confusion which very ...
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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 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 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 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 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.