The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... , to say , that I think it may be proved from my principles , and I think I have done it ; and the proof * Human Understanding , B. ii . c . 3. § 6 . in my book stands thus : First , we experiment 32 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
... , to say , that I think it may be proved from my principles , and I think I have done it ; and the proof * Human Understanding , B. ii . c . 3. § 6 . in my book stands thus : First , we experiment 32 Mr. Locke's Letter to the.
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... proof of a thinking substance in us , which in my sense is a spirit . Against this your lord- ship will argue , that by what I have said of the possi- bility that God may , if he pleases , superadd to matter a faculty of thinking , it ...
... proof of a thinking substance in us , which in my sense is a spirit . Against this your lord- ship will argue , that by what I have said of the possi- bility that God may , if he pleases , superadd to matter a faculty of thinking , it ...
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... proof of a God : which your lordship closes with these words : " That which I design is to show , that the certainty of it is not placed upon any clear and distinct ideas , but upon the force of reason distinct from it ; which was the ...
... proof of a God : which your lordship closes with these words : " That which I design is to show , that the certainty of it is not placed upon any clear and distinct ideas , but upon the force of reason distinct from it ; which was the ...
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... proof alone of a Deity is brought out of that book , to make good what your lordship here says ; and nobody else is anywhere mentioned or quoted concerning it ? The same way of speaking of the persons you are arguing against in the ...
... proof alone of a Deity is brought out of that book , to make good what your lordship here says ; and nobody else is anywhere mentioned or quoted concerning it ? The same way of speaking of the persons you are arguing against in the ...
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... proof from the clear and distinct idea of God , that , I pre- sume , is no confession that there can be no sufficient evidence brought from clear and distinct ideas , much less from simple ideas , concerning the existence of a God ...
... proof from the clear and distinct idea of God , that , I pre- sume , is no confession that there can be no sufficient evidence brought from clear and distinct ideas , much less from simple ideas , concerning the existence of a God ...
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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.