An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: In Four Books, Volumen1H. Woodfall, 1768 |
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... fame Notion , having different Refpects , may be convenient or neceffary to prove or illuftrate feveral Parts of the fame Difcourfe ; and that fo it has happen- ed in many Parts of this : But waving that , I fhall frankly avow , that I ...
... fame Notion , having different Refpects , may be convenient or neceffary to prove or illuftrate feveral Parts of the fame Difcourfe ; and that fo it has happen- ed in many Parts of this : But waving that , I fhall frankly avow , that I ...
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... fame Manner , and for the fame Purpose , as was done when this Effay had the fecond Impreffion . In the fixth Edition , there is very little added or altered ; the greatest Part of what is new , is contained in the 21st Chapter of the ...
... fame Manner , and for the fame Purpose , as was done when this Effay had the fecond Impreffion . In the fixth Edition , there is very little added or altered ; the greatest Part of what is new , is contained in the 21st Chapter of the ...
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... fame Manner they do now : Though whether the fame Account has heretofore been given of the Way how they performed thefe Actions , or wherein they confifted , I do not know . Were I as well read as your Lordship , I fhould have been fafe ...
... fame Manner they do now : Though whether the fame Account has heretofore been given of the Way how they performed thefe Actions , or wherein they confifted , I do not know . Were I as well read as your Lordship , I fhould have been fafe ...
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... fame Thing , and should find by examining , that they had the fame Thoughts too . But what great Obligation this would be to the World , or weighty . Caufe of turning over and looking into Books , I confefs I do not fee . The great End ...
... fame Thing , and should find by examining , that they had the fame Thoughts too . But what great Obligation this would be to the World , or weighty . Caufe of turning over and looking into Books , I confefs I do not fee . The great End ...
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... fame low Way that mine does , that thofe Men of a more happy Genius would fhew us the Way of their nobler Flights ; and particularly would discover to us their horter or furer Way to Certainty , than by Ideas , and the obferving their ...
... fame low Way that mine does , that thofe Men of a more happy Genius would fhew us the Way of their nobler Flights ; and particularly would discover to us their horter or furer Way to Certainty , than by Ideas , and the obferving their ...
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Página 113 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth often die before us; and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures drawn in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes refreshed, vanish and disappear.
Página 191 - For when the ball obeys the stroke of a billiard-stick, it is not any action of the ball, but bare passion : also when by impulse it sets another ball in motion that lay in its way, it only communicates the motion it had received from another, and loses in itself so much as the other received...
Página 100 - The particular bulk, number, figure, and motion of the parts of fire, or snow, are really in them, whether any one's senses perceive them or no ; and therefore they may be called real qualities, because they really exist in those bodies : but light, heat, whiteness, or coldness, are no more really in them than sickness or pain is in manna.
Página 108 - 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 193 - So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other...
Página 15 - So that if the capacity of knowing be the natural impression contended for, all the truths a man ever comes to know will, by this account, be every one of them innate ; and this great point will amount to no more, but only to a very improper way of speaking; which, whilst it pretends to assert the contrary, says nothing different from those who deny innate principles.
Página 105 - This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind; whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within ; there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat or idea of pain be produced in the mind, wherein consists actual perception.
Página 82 - ... the dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world, of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Página 68 - ... got; which operations, when the soul comes to reflect on and consider, do furnish the understanding with another set of ideas which could not be had from things without; and such are perception, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning...