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... rules derived from the resources of a higher philosophy . On the other hand , no science could have been chosen more happily calculated than medicine to prepare such a mind as that of Locke for the prosecution of " Nôstri præterea quàm ...
... rules derived from the resources of a higher philosophy . On the other hand , no science could have been chosen more happily calculated than medicine to prepare such a mind as that of Locke for the prosecution of " Nôstri præterea quàm ...
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... rule and obligation is antecedent to human laws , though the matter about which that rule is , may be con- sequent to them , as property in land , distinction , and power of persons . All things not commanded , or forbidden by the law ...
... rule and obligation is antecedent to human laws , though the matter about which that rule is , may be con- sequent to them , as property in land , distinction , and power of persons . All things not commanded , or forbidden by the law ...
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... rule of civil obedience . For if the end of civil society be civil peace , the immediate obligation of every subject must be to preserve that society or government which was ordained to produce it ; and no member of any society can ...
... rule of civil obedience . For if the end of civil society be civil peace , the immediate obligation of every subject must be to preserve that society or government which was ordained to produce it ; and no member of any society can ...
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... rule , setting aside all other qualities of the soil , that the vineyards must have an opening towards the east or south , or else no good is to be expected . The other is a mingling of good sorts of vines in their vineyards . [ Then ...
... rule , setting aside all other qualities of the soil , that the vineyards must have an opening towards the east or south , or else no good is to be expected . The other is a mingling of good sorts of vines in their vineyards . [ Then ...
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... rule , Do as you would be done to . It being then possible , and at least probable , that there is another life , wherein we shall give an account of our past actions in this to the great God of heaven and earth ; here comes in another ...
... rule , Do as you would be done to . It being then possible , and at least probable , that there is another life , wherein we shall give an account of our past actions in this to the great God of heaven and earth ; here comes in another ...
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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?