An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volumen1John Bumpus, 1824 - 668 páginas |
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... follow truth , will ( whatever he lights on ) not miss the hunter's satisfaction ; every moment of his pursuit will reward his pains with some delight , and he will have reason to think his time not ill spent , even when he cannot much ...
... follow truth , will ( whatever he lights on ) not miss the hunter's satisfaction ; every moment of his pursuit will reward his pains with some delight , and he will have reason to think his time not ill spent , even when he cannot much ...
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... vanity to think they would follow my example ) , my book would , it seems , be the more to your men , that there are in the understanding certain innate Ch . 2 . 7 NO INNATE PRINCIPLES IN THE MIND . ? No innate speculative principles,
... vanity to think they would follow my example ) , my book would , it seems , be the more to your men , that there are in the understanding certain innate Ch . 2 . 7 NO INNATE PRINCIPLES IN THE MIND . ? No innate speculative principles,
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... follow his " Here , my lord , however new this seemed to me , and the more so because possibly I had in vain hunted for it in the books of others ; yet I spoke of it as new , only to myself ; leaving others in the undisturbed possession ...
... follow his " Here , my lord , however new this seemed to me , and the more so because possibly I had in vain hunted for it in the books of others ; yet I spoke of it as new , only to myself ; leaving others in the undisturbed possession ...
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... follow , that these princi- ples may be made more evident to us by others teaching , than na- ture has made them by impression ; which will ill agree with the opinion of innate principles , and give but little authority to them ; but ...
... follow , that these princi- ples may be made more evident to us by others teaching , than na- ture has made them by impression ; which will ill agree with the opinion of innate principles , and give but little authority to them ; but ...
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... follows not , in this life , the breach of this rule ; and , consequently , that it has not the force of a law in countries where the generally allowed prac- tice runs counter to it , is in itself evident . But these ideas ( which must ...
... follows not , in this life , the breach of this rule ; and , consequently , that it has not the force of a law in countries where the generally allowed prac- tice runs counter to it , is in itself evident . But these ideas ( which must ...
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Página 286 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Página 63 - ... the perception of the operations of our own minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has 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, knowing, willing, and all the different actings of our own minds...
Página 277 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Página 63 - ... 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; which when I say the senses convey into the mind, I mean they from external objects convey into the mind what produces there those perceptions. This great source of most of the ideas we have, depending wholly upon our senses,...
Página 496 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Página 545 - ... neither oblique nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon, but all and none of these at once? In effect, it is something imperfect that cannot exist, an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Página 4 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries, the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Página x - Newton, with some others of that strain ; it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Página 113 - I can discover, are the windows by which light is let into this dark room; for methinks the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little openings left to let in external visible resemblances, or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding...
Página 94 - First, the bulk, figure, number, situation, and motion or rest of their solid parts. Those are in them, whether we perceive them or no; and when they are of that size that we can discover them, we have by these an idea of the thing as it is in itself, as is plain in artificial things. These I call primary qualities. Secondly, the power that is in any body, by reason of its insensible primary qualities, to operate after a peculiar manner on any of our senses, and thereby produce in us the different...