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... amongst which the frequency of insignificant speech is one . 66 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 . 66 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 predominant , 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 predominant , we are not affected with the action of the stars ...
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... amongst men , neither commonwealth , nor society , nor con- tract , 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 con- tract , 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 " reason , " in this sense , is nothing but " reckon- ing , " that is adding and subtracting , of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the " marking " and " signifying " of our ...
... amongst the faculties of the mind . For " reason , " in this sense , is nothing but " reckon- ing , " that is adding and subtracting , of the consequences of general names agreed upon for the " marking " and " signifying " of our ...
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... amongst innumerable absurdities and their end , contention and sedition , or contempt . 99 As much experience , is " prudence ; so , is much science " sapience . " For though we usually have one name of wisdom for them both , yet the ...
... amongst innumerable absurdities and their end , contention and sedition , or contempt . 99 As much experience , is " prudence ; so , is much science " sapience . " For though we usually have one name of wisdom for them both , yet the ...
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Page 312 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 284 - Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they then baptized for the dead?
Page 197 - Hereby know ye the Spirit of God : Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God : and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come ; and even now already is it in the world.
Page 229 - And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church : but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.
Page 84 - This done, the multitude so united in one person is called a "commonwealth," in Latin civitas. This is the generation of that great "leviathan," or, rather, to speak more reverently, of that "mortal god," to which we owe, under the "immortal God,
Page 63 - 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 64 - ... navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving, and removing, such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Page 307 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks,* and wanton* wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 311 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 283 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more : for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.