A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human KnowledgeJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1874 - 424 pages |
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... manners . After his return to England , he spent most of the time in London , from 1721 to 1728. His mind was occupied at this time with a plan for establishing a college in the Bermuda Islands . It was to be modelled in general after ...
... manners . After his return to England , he spent most of the time in London , from 1721 to 1728. His mind was occupied at this time with a plan for establishing a college in the Bermuda Islands . It was to be modelled in general after ...
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... Manners , Opinions , and Times ; ' ' Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit ; ' ' The Moralists , a Rhapsody . ' Mandeville ( 1670-1733 ) wrote the Fable of the Bees , ' Lon- don , 1714. Its aim was to prove ' private vices public benefits ...
... Manners , Opinions , and Times ; ' ' Inquiry concerning Virtue and Merit ; ' ' The Moralists , a Rhapsody . ' Mandeville ( 1670-1733 ) wrote the Fable of the Bees , ' Lon- don , 1714. Its aim was to prove ' private vices public benefits ...
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... mediate , efficient cause of all things . ' ' Created beings are there- 2 Prin . H. K. , 8 69 . 3 Prin . , 273 . 4 Prin . H. K. , 8 53 . • Prin . , ? 23 . I fore made to no manner of purpose , since II - THE PRECURSORS OF BERKELEY . 19.
... mediate , efficient cause of all things . ' ' Created beings are there- 2 Prin . H. K. , 8 69 . 3 Prin . , 273 . 4 Prin . H. K. , 8 53 . • Prin . , ? 23 . I fore made to no manner of purpose , since II - THE PRECURSORS OF BERKELEY . 19.
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George Berkeley Charles Porterfield Krauth. I fore made to no manner of purpose , since God might have done everything as well without them . ' He refers to Descartes when he speaks of those who , after all their laboring and struggle of ...
George Berkeley Charles Porterfield Krauth. I fore made to no manner of purpose , since God might have done everything as well without them . ' He refers to Descartes when he speaks of those who , after all their laboring and struggle of ...
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... manner . What we call the Laws of Nature is in fact the order in the succession of our ideas . ' ' Gesch . d . Philosoph . d . Neuzeit , Dritte Aufl . , 1872 , 100 , 101 . 16 : VOGEL ( 1873 ) . The objects of 2 III - SUMMARIES OF ...
... manner . What we call the Laws of Nature is in fact the order in the succession of our ideas . ' ' Gesch . d . Philosoph . d . Neuzeit , Dritte Aufl . , 1872 , 100 , 101 . 16 : VOGEL ( 1873 ) . The objects of 2 III - SUMMARIES OF ...
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Page 128 - His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard.
Page 182 - For example, does it not require some pains and skill to form the general idea of a triangle (which is yet none of the most abstract, comprehensive, and difficult)! for it must be neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and none of these at once.
Page 194 - By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived — for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.
Page 193 - It is evident to anyone who takes a survey of the objects of human knowledge that they are either ideas actually imprinted on the senses, or else such as are perceived by attending to the passions and operations of the mind, or lastly, ideas formed by help of memory and imagination— either compounding, dividing, or barely representing those originally perceived in the aforesaid ways.
Page 208 - We perceive a continual succession of ideas, some are anew excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore some cause of these ideas, whereon they depend, and which produces and changes them.
Page 293 - Since all things that exist are only particulars, how come we by general terms?' His answer is, 'Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas' (Essay on Human Understanding, b.
Page 178 - Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man.
Page 278 - Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name: that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Page 210 - When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some other Will or Spirit that produces them.
Page 195 - ... exist when applied to sensible things. | The table I write on I say exists, that is, I see and feel it; | and if...