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... prove only a liberty for contention , censure , and persecution . * * * * * I have not therefore the same apprehension of liberty that some have , or can think the benefits of it to consist in a liberty for men , at pleasure , to adopt ...
... prove only a liberty for contention , censure , and persecution . * * * * * I have not therefore the same apprehension of liberty that some have , or can think the benefits of it to consist in a liberty for men , at pleasure , to adopt ...
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... proved , since all I tell you is of eating and drinking ; but you must know that knight - errants do not choose their ad- ventures , and those who sometimes live pleasantly in brave castles , amidst feasting and ladies , are at other ...
... proved , since all I tell you is of eating and drinking ; but you must know that knight - errants do not choose their ad- ventures , and those who sometimes live pleasantly in brave castles , amidst feasting and ladies , are at other ...
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... prove what my opinion was of it , when it was first proposed to the Counsel . And if any man consider the circumstance of time when it was done , that it was the prologue of making the Lord Clifford Lord Treasurer , he will not suspect ...
... prove what my opinion was of it , when it was first proposed to the Counsel . And if any man consider the circumstance of time when it was done , that it was the prologue of making the Lord Clifford Lord Treasurer , he will not suspect ...
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... proves a very good entertainment , in this time of close confinement , when his friends are not permitted to see him without particular order under the hand of one of the Secretaries , who are generally very kind , and deny none that ...
... proves a very good entertainment , in this time of close confinement , when his friends are not permitted to see him without particular order under the hand of one of the Secretaries , who are generally very kind , and deny none that ...
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... proves not that the imaginary space is anything real or positive . For space or extension , separated in our thoughts from mat- ter or body , seems to have no more real existence than number has ( sine enumeration ) without anything to ...
... proves not that the imaginary space is anything real or positive . For space or extension , separated in our thoughts from mat- ter or body , seems to have no more real existence than number has ( sine enumeration ) without anything to ...
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Page 323 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Page 450 - AN ACT DECLARING THE RIGHTS AND LIBERTIES OF THE SUBJECT, AND SETTLING THE SUCCESSION OF THE CROWN.
Page 320 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels ; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 175 - I were not extremely sensible of them, and did not lay hold on this opportunity to testify to the world how much I am obliged to be, and how much I am, MY LORD, Your lordship's most humble and most obedient servant, JOHN LOCKE.
Page 396 - The faculty which God has given man to supply the want of clear and certain knowledge, in cases where that cannot be had, is judgment : whereby the mind takes its ideas to agree or disagree ; or, which is the same, any proposition to be true or false, without perceiving a demonstrative evidence in the proofs.
Page 33 - ... what objects our understandings were, or were not, fitted to deal with.
Page 123 - To choose, is to will one thing before. another; and to will, is to bend our souls to the having or doing of that which they see to be good: Goodness is seen with the eye of the Understanding; and the light of that eye is Reason : so that two principal fountains there are of Human Action, Knowledge, and Will; which Will in things tending towards any end is termed Choice. Concerning Knowledge; 'Behold...
Page 369 - ... 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 322 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule, and all authority, and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
Page 218 - Gates, and for not thinking that I made a long stay there. I hope we shall meet again in due time, and then I should be glad to have your judgment upon some of my mystical fancies. The Son of man, Dan. vii. I take to be the same with the Word of God upon the White Horse in Heaven, Apoc. xix. and him to be the same with the Man Child, Apoc. xii. for both are to rule the nations with a rod of iron ; but whence are you certain that the Ancient of Days is Christ? Does Christ anywhere sit upon the throne?