The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... material to the matter in hand . But as to the idea of substance , what it is , and how we come by it , your lordship says , " it is a repugnancy to our conceptions of things , that modes and accidents should subsist by themselves ; and ...
... material to the matter in hand . But as to the idea of substance , what it is , and how we come by it , your lordship says , " it is a repugnancy to our conceptions of things , that modes and accidents should subsist by themselves ; and ...
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... materials of all our knowledge , are suggested and furnished to the mind only by these two ways above - mentioned , viz . sensa- tion and reflection . " And again , " These are the most considerable of those simple ideas which the mind ...
... materials of all our knowledge , are suggested and furnished to the mind only by these two ways above - mentioned , viz . sensa- tion and reflection . " And again , " These are the most considerable of those simple ideas which the mind ...
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... material being thinks or not ; it being impossible for us , by the con- templation of our own ideas , without revelation , to dis- cover whether Omnipotency hath not given to some systems of matter , fitly disposed , a power to perceive ...
... material being thinks or not ; it being impossible for us , by the con- templation of our own ideas , without revelation , to dis- cover whether Omnipotency hath not given to some systems of matter , fitly disposed , a power to perceive ...
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... material substance that thinks in us . I 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 ...
... material substance that thinks in us . I 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 ...
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... material substance in us , as you speak a little far- ther on , I grant what your lordship says is true , that + Ibid . B. iv . c . 10. § 5 . it cannot , upon these principles , be demonstrated . 36 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... material substance in us , as you speak a little far- ther on , I grant what your lordship says is true , that + Ibid . B. iv . c . 10. § 5 . it cannot , upon these principles , be demonstrated . 36 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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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.