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... prefer one thought or action to another ; negligence to attention ; or motion to rest . And so we should neither stir our bodies nor employ our minds , but let our thoughts ( if I may so call it ) run a - drift , without any direction ...
... prefer one thought or action to another ; negligence to attention ; or motion to rest . And so we should neither stir our bodies nor employ our minds , but let our thoughts ( if I may so call it ) run a - drift , without any direction ...
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... prefer also the word expansion to space , because space is often applied to distance of fleeting successive parts , which never exist together , as well as to those which are permanent . In both these ( N 2 Ch . 15. Duration and ...
... prefer also the word expansion to space , because space is often applied to distance of fleeting successive parts , which never exist together , as well as to those which are permanent . In both these ( N 2 Ch . 15. Duration and ...
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... prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest , and vice versa , in any particular instance is that which we call the will . The actual exercise of that power , by directing any particular action , or its forbearance , is that ...
... prefer the motion of any part of the body to its rest , and vice versa , in any particular instance is that which we call the will . The actual exercise of that power , by directing any particular action , or its forbearance , is that ...
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... preferring , are usually called by another name : and the ordinary way of speak- ing , is , that the understanding and will are two facul- ties of the mind ; a word proper enough , if it be used as all words should be , so as not to ...
... preferring , are usually called by another name : and the ordinary way of speak- ing , is , that the understanding and will are two facul- ties of the mind ; a word proper enough , if it be used as all words should be , so as not to ...
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... prefers his not falling to falling ; yet the forbearance of that motion not being in his power , the stop or ces- sation of that motion follows not upon his volition ; and therefore therein he is not free . So a man striking him- self ...
... prefers his not falling to falling ; yet the forbearance of that motion not being in his power , the stop or ces- sation of that motion follows not upon his volition ; and therefore therein he is not free . So a man striking him- self ...
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Page 77 - Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from EXPERIENCE; in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
Page 280 - The mind being, as I have declared, furnished with a great number of the simple ideas conveyed in by the senses, as they are found in exterior things, or by reflection on its own operations, takes notice also that a certain number of these simple ideas go constantly together...
Page 115 - Why are whiteness and coldness in snow, and pain not, when it produces the one and the other idea in us ; and can do neither, but by the bulk, figure, number, and motion of its solid parts ? 17. The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them...
Page 421 - The Ideas of Goblins and Sprights have really no more to do with Darkness than Light : Yet let but a foolish Maid inculcate these often on the Mind of a Child, and raise them there together, possibly he shall never be able to separate them again so long as he lives; but Darkness shall ever afterwards bring with it those frightful Ideas, and they shall be so joined that he can no more bear the one than the other.
Page 258 - 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 426 - It may also lead us a little towards the original of all our notions and knowledge, if we remark how great a dependence our words have on common sensible ideas; and how those which are made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed from sense, have their rise from thence, and from obvious sensible ideas are transferred to more abstruse significations, and made to stand for ideas that come not under the cognizance of our senses...
Page 281 - So that if any one will examine himself concerning his notion of pure substance in general, he will find he has no other idea of it at all, but only a supposition of he knows not what support of such qualities, which are capable of producing simple ideas in us; which qualities are commonly called accidents.
Page 78 - 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...
Page 429 - Words in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them, how imperfectly soever, or carelessly, those ideas are collected from the things which u2 they are supposed to represent.