An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Bind 1T. Longman, 1796 - 459 sider |
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... least . For the understanding , like the eye , judging of ob- jects only by its own fight , cannot but be pleafed with what it difcovers , having lefs regret for what has escaped it , because it is unknown . Thus he who has raised A 4 ...
... least . For the understanding , like the eye , judging of ob- jects only by its own fight , cannot but be pleafed with what it difcovers , having lefs regret for what has escaped it , because it is unknown . Thus he who has raised A 4 ...
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... least knowing , and therefore not the most eafy to be fatisfied . If I have not the good luck to please , yet nobody ought to be offended with me . I plainly tell all my readers , except half a dozen , this treatife was not at first ...
... least knowing , and therefore not the most eafy to be fatisfied . If I have not the good luck to please , yet nobody ought to be offended with me . I plainly tell all my readers , except half a dozen , this treatife was not at first ...
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... least fuch as are prepoffeffed , are willing to allow : or , whether any obfcurity in my expreffions cafts a cloud over it , and these notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my ...
... least fuch as are prepoffeffed , are willing to allow : or , whether any obfcurity in my expreffions cafts a cloud over it , and these notions are made difficult to others apprehenfions in my way of treating them : fo it is , that my ...
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... least to be thought falfe . 12. And why . 13. As referred to real exift- ences , none of our ideas can be falfe , but those of fubftances . 14 , 16. First , fimple ideas in this fenfe not falfe , and why . 15. Though one man's idea of ...
... least to be thought falfe . 12. And why . 13. As referred to real exift- ences , none of our ideas can be falfe , but those of fubftances . 14 , 16. First , fimple ideas in this fenfe not falfe , and why . 15. Though one man's idea of ...
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... least appre- henfion or thought of them : and the want rinted , be of that is enough to deftroy that univerfal ufe not affent , which muft needs be the neceffary own to ildren , concomitant of all innate truths ; it feeming iots , & c ...
... least appre- henfion or thought of them : and the want rinted , be of that is enough to deftroy that univerfal ufe not affent , which muft needs be the neceffary own to ildren , concomitant of all innate truths ; it feeming iots , & c ...
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Side 80 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...
Side 310 - From whence it seems probable to me, that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection are the boundaries of our thoughts; beyond which, the mind, whatever efforts it would make, is not able to advance one jot; nor can it make any discoveries, when it would pry into the nature and hidden causes of those ideas.
Side 438 - ... for example. And thus they come to have a general name, and a general idea. Wherein they make nothing new, but only leave out of the complex idea they had of Peter and James, Mary and Jane that which is peculiar to each, and retain only what is common to them all.
Side 142 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Side 355 - But some man will say, 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.
Side 80 - ... mind several distinct perceptions of things, according to those various ways wherein those objects do affect them: and thus we come by those ideas we have, of Yellow, White, Heat, Cold, Soft, Hard, Bitter, Sweet, and all those which we call sensible qualities; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean, they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses, and derived...
Side 224 - ... it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Side 222 - ... by the determination of its own choice; and concluding from what it has so constantly observed to have been, that the like changes will for the future be made, in the same things, by like agents, and by the like ways, considers in one thing the possibility of having any of its simple ideas changed, and in another the possibility of making that change ; and so comes by that idea which we call Power.
Side 262 - Who will render to every man according to his deeds: To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life : But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, Tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil...
Side 224 - The idea of the beginning of motion we have only from reflection on what passes in ourselves, where we find by experience, that barely by willing it, barely by a thought of the mind, we can move the parts of our bodies which were before at rest.