An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen1William Fessenden, 1806 |
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... desire to see the whole work . At length the happy Revolution in 1688 , by the cour- age and good conduct of the Prince of Orange , open-- ed a way for Mr. Locke's return into his own country , whither he came in the fleet which ...
... desire to see the whole work . At length the happy Revolution in 1688 , by the cour- age and good conduct of the Prince of Orange , open-- ed a way for Mr. Locke's return into his own country , whither he came in the fleet which ...
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... desire as well as volition , for want of other words to mark that act of the mind , whofe proper name is willing or volition ; yet it being a very fimple act , whofoever defires to understand what it is , will better find it by ...
... desire as well as volition , for want of other words to mark that act of the mind , whofe proper name is willing or volition ; yet it being a very fimple act , whofoever defires to understand what it is , will better find it by ...
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... desire . $ 31 . Uneafness determines the Will . To return then to the inquiry , What is it that deter- mines the will in regard to our actions ? And that , upon fecond thoughts , I am apt to imagine is not , as is gen- erally fuppofed ...
... desire . $ 31 . Uneafness determines the Will . To return then to the inquiry , What is it that deter- mines the will in regard to our actions ? And that , upon fecond thoughts , I am apt to imagine is not , as is gen- erally fuppofed ...
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... desire accompanying it ; which I think is the reason why the will and desire are fo often confound ed . But yet we are not to look upon the uneasiness which makes up , or at least accompanies most of the oth er paffions , as wholly ...
... desire accompanying it ; which I think is the reason why the will and desire are fo often confound ed . But yet we are not to look upon the uneasiness which makes up , or at least accompanies most of the oth er paffions , as wholly ...
Página 255
... desire for we conftantly defire happiness ; and whatever we feel of uneasiness , so much it is certain we want of ... desires , the next inquiry nat- urally will be , which of them has the precedency in de- termining the will to the next ...
... desire for we conftantly defire happiness ; and whatever we feel of uneasiness , so much it is certain we want of ... desires , the next inquiry nat- urally will be , which of them has the precedency in de- termining the will to the next ...
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Página 83 - 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.
Página 143 - ... for wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; judgment, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas, wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
Página 98 - All those sublime thoughts which tower above the clouds, and reach as high as heaven itself, take their rise and footing here : in all that great extent wherein the mind wanders in those remote speculations it may seem to be elevated with, it stirs not one jot beyond those ideas which sense or reflection have offered for its contemplation.
Página 132 - I agree with this thinking gentleman, whom I am proud to call my friend, in his answer to this his problem ; and am of opinion, that the blind man, at first sight, would not be able with certainty to say which was the globe, which the cube, whilst he only saw them...
Página 148 - ... do not appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning ; but having joined together some ideas very wrongly, they mistake them for truths, and they err as men do that argue right from wrong principles.
Página 271 - 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...
Página 16 - I imagine any one will easily grant, that it would be impertinent to suppose the ideas of colours innate in a creature, to whom God hath given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes, from external objects ; and no less unreasonable would it be to attribute several truths to the impressions of nature, and innate characters, when we may observe in...
Página 103 - I would have any one try to fancy any taste which had never affected his palate, or frame the idea of a scent he had never smelt ; and when he can do this, I will also conclude, that a blind man hath ideas of colours, and a deaf man true, distinct notions of sounds.
Página 233 - The idea of the beginning of motion we have only from reflection on what passes in ourselves, where we find by experience, that barely by willing it, barely by a thought of the mind, we can move the parts of our bodies which were before at rest.
Página 126 - The first of these, as has been said, I think, may be properly called real, original, or primary qualities, because they are in the things themselves, whether they are perceived or no; and upon their different modifications it is that the secondary qualities depend. The other two are only powers to act differently upon other things, which powers result from the different modifications of those primary qualities.