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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... rest that night , and resolved to try to rise on the following morning ; which he did , and was carried into his study , where he was placed in an easy chair , and slept for a considerable time . Seeming a little refreshed , he would be ...
... rest that night , and resolved to try to rise on the following morning ; which he did , and was carried into his study , where he was placed in an easy chair , and slept for a considerable time . Seeming a little refreshed , he would be ...
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... rest of the world , that , on the contrary , he looked upon them as infallible marks of impertinence . Nay , sometimes he would divert himself with imitating that studied gravity , in order to turn it the better into The Life of the ...
... rest of the world , that , on the contrary , he looked upon them as infallible marks of impertinence . Nay , sometimes he would divert himself with imitating that studied gravity , in order to turn it the better into The Life of the ...
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... rest : you vouchsafe to continue me in some degrees of your esteem , and allow me a place in your good thoughts ; I had almost said friendship . This , my lord , your words and actions so constantly show on all occasions , even to ...
... rest : you vouchsafe to continue me in some degrees of your esteem , and allow me a place in your good thoughts ; I had almost said friendship . This , my lord , your words and actions so constantly show on all occasions , even to ...
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... rest of sensible beings , and gives him all the advantage and do- minion which he has over them ; it is certainly a subject , even for its noble- ness , worth our labour to inquire into . The under- standing , like the eye , whilst it ...
... rest of sensible beings , and gives him all the advantage and do- minion which he has over them ; it is certainly a subject , even for its noble- ness , worth our labour to inquire into . The under- standing , like the eye , whilst it ...
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... rest of the inhabitants of this our man- sion . Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he hath given them ( as St. Peter says ) πανlα προς ζωήν και ευσέβειαν , whatsoever is necessary for ...
... rest of the inhabitants of this our man- sion . Men have reason to be well satisfied with what God hath thought fit for them , since he hath given them ( as St. Peter says ) πανlα προς ζωήν και ευσέβειαν , whatsoever is necessary for ...
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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...