The Works of John Locke, Volume 4Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
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... perceive , or not to follow , the light your lordship affords me . Your lordship having in the two or three preceding pages , justly , as I think , found fault with the account of reason , given by the Unitarians and a late writer , in ...
... perceive , or not to follow , the light your lordship affords me . Your lordship having in the two or three preceding pages , justly , as I think , found fault with the account of reason , given by the Unitarians and a late writer , in ...
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... perceive between us in this matter , but only a little in expression . It follows , " and amongst these general notions , or rational ideas , substance is one of the first ; because we find , that we can have no true conceptions of any ...
... perceive between us in this matter , but only a little in expression . It follows , " and amongst these general notions , or rational ideas , substance is one of the first ; because we find , that we can have no true conceptions of any ...
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... perceive or think . If this be true , then for all that we can know by our ideas of matter and thinking , matter may have a power of thinking : and if this hold , then it is impossible to prove a spiritual substance in us , from the ...
... perceive or think . If this be true , then for all that we can know by our ideas of matter and thinking , matter may have a power of thinking : and if this hold , then it is impossible to prove a spiritual substance in us , from the ...
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... perception , and knowledge . But this doth not reach the present case ; which is not what matter can do of itself , but what matter prepared by an om- nipotent hand can do . And what certainty can we have that he hath not done it ? We ...
... perception , and knowledge . But this doth not reach the present case ; which is not what matter can do of itself , but what matter prepared by an om- nipotent hand can do . And what certainty can we have that he hath not done it ? We ...
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... perception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas , such as they are , and not always in having per- fectly clear ... perceive the necessary idea of thinking , and the relative idea of a support ; which support , without having any ...
... perception of the agreement or disagreement of ideas , such as they are , and not always in having per- fectly clear ... perceive the necessary idea of thinking , and the relative idea of a support ; which support , without having any ...
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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 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 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 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 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.