An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1828 |
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... examined it , gives the following account : " I am inclined to think that this work is the genuine production of Mr. Locke . It is compiled with ac- curacy and judgment , and is in every respect worthy of that masterly writer . I have ...
... examined it , gives the following account : " I am inclined to think that this work is the genuine production of Mr. Locke . It is compiled with ac- curacy and judgment , and is in every respect worthy of that masterly writer . I have ...
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... examined and found unreasonable , un- scriptural , and injurious , & c . London , printed in the year 1695 , " 47 pages , 4to . It is uncertain whether he lived to finish that System of Ethics which his friend Molyneux so fre- quently ...
... examined and found unreasonable , un- scriptural , and injurious , & c . London , printed in the year 1695 , " 47 pages , 4to . It is uncertain whether he lived to finish that System of Ethics which his friend Molyneux so fre- quently ...
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... examined . Pieces groundlessly ascribed , or of doubtful authority . Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Virtuous and Christian Life . Discourse on the Love of God . Right Method of searching after Truth . Spurious ones : Common ...
... examined . Pieces groundlessly ascribed , or of doubtful authority . Occasional Thoughts in Reference to a Virtuous and Christian Life . Discourse on the Love of God . Right Method of searching after Truth . Spurious ones : Common ...
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... examined it to the bottom , and who is our com- mon friend : I mean Mr. John Locke , who , if we consider his genius , and penetrating and exact judgment , or the strict- ness of his morals , has scarcely any superior , and few equals ...
... examined it to the bottom , and who is our com- mon friend : I mean Mr. John Locke , who , if we consider his genius , and penetrating and exact judgment , or the strict- ness of his morals , has scarcely any superior , and few equals ...
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... examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were , or were not , fitted to deal with . This I pro- posed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our first ...
... examine our own abilities , and see what objects our understandings were , or were not , fitted to deal with . This I pro- posed to the company , who all readily assented ; and thereupon it was agreed , that this should be our first ...
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Page 84 - I would be understood to mean that notice which the mind takes of its own operations, and the manner of them, by reason whereof there come to be ideas of these operations in the understanding.
Page xlvii - ... on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand, by the difficulties that rose on every side. After we had a while puzzled ourselves, without coming any nearer a resolution of those doubts which perplexed us, it came into my thoughts, that we took a wrong course : and that before we set ourselves upon inquiries of that nature, it was necessary to examine our own abilities, and see what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 83 - First, Our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do convey into the 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.
Page 120 - Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts.
Page 119 - ... are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject; most of those of sensation being in the mind no more the likeness of something existing without us, than the names that stand for them are the likeness of our ideas, which yet upon hearing they are apt to excite in us. 8. Whatsoever the mind perceives in itself, or is the immediate object of perception, thought, or understanding, that I call idea ; and the power to proLocke, Essay, Book II, chapter viii.
Page xxxiv - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Page 82 - Every man being conscious to himself that he thinks, and that which his mind is applied about whilst thinking being the ideas that are there, it is past doubt that men have in their minds several ideas, such as are those expressed by the words, "whiteness, hardness, sweetness, thinking, motion, man, elephant, army, drunkenness,
Page 278 - 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...
Page 122 - ... it being no more impossible to conceive that God should annex such ideas to such motions with which they have no similitude, than that he should annex the idea of pain to the motion of a piece of steel dividing our flesh, with which that idea hath no resemblance.
Page 119 - To discover the nature of our ideas the better, and to discourse of them intelligibly, it will be convenient to distinguish them, as they are ideas or perceptions in our minds, and as they are modifications of matter in the bodies that cause such perceptions in us; that so we may not think (as perhaps usually is done) that they are exactly the images and resemblances of something inherent in the subject: most of those of sensation being in the mind no more the likeness of something existing without...