An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1T. Longman, 1796 - 459 pagine |
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... judge of men's heads , as they do of their perukes , by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right , but the received doctrines . Truth fcarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance : new opinions are always ...
... judge of men's heads , as they do of their perukes , by the fashion ; and can allow none to be right , but the received doctrines . Truth fcarce ever yet carried it by vote any where at its first appearance : new opinions are always ...
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... judge candidly ; and then I fhall not be harmed or offended , whatever be thy cenfure . For though it be certain , that there is nothing in this treatise , of the truth whereof I am not fully perfuaded ; yet I confider myfelf as liable ...
... judge candidly ; and then I fhall not be harmed or offended , whatever be thy cenfure . For though it be certain , that there is nothing in this treatise , of the truth whereof I am not fully perfuaded ; yet I confider myfelf as liable ...
Pagina 16
... judge and guefs ; we may learn to content ourselves with what is attainable by us in this state . § . 5. For , though the comprehenfion of our understandings comes exceeding fhort of the vast extent of things ; yet we fhall have caufe ...
... judge and guefs ; we may learn to content ourselves with what is attainable by us in this state . § . 5. For , though the comprehenfion of our understandings comes exceeding fhort of the vast extent of things ; yet we fhall have caufe ...
Pagina 60
... judge in the cafe , had fo great an efteem , that he was at the pains to tranflate into French , and publish it in his ( which is counted no injudicious ) col- lection of travels . But to intercede with your lordfhip , for a little more ...
... judge in the cafe , had fo great an efteem , that he was at the pains to tranflate into French , and publish it in his ( which is counted no injudicious ) col- lection of travels . But to intercede with your lordfhip , for a little more ...
Pagina 63
... judge is beft for them , be- cause it is fuitable to his goodness fo to do ; it will prove not only that God has imprinted on the minds of men an idea of himself , but that he hath plainly stamped there , in fair characters , all that ...
... judge is beft for them , be- cause it is fuitable to his goodness fo to do ; it will prove not only that God has imprinted on the minds of men an idea of himself , but that he hath plainly stamped there , in fair characters , all that ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 224 - ... it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.