The Philosophical Works of John Locke, Volume 2George Bell & Sons, 1892 |
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... never heard there were seventy- nine , as Bishop Marolus writes , where he follows Mendoza , in his second chapter , quoted above ; nor are there any rooms of gold , silver , or precious stones , as the same author says , and J. Lazenna ...
... never heard there were seventy- nine , as Bishop Marolus writes , where he follows Mendoza , in his second chapter , quoted above ; nor are there any rooms of gold , silver , or precious stones , as the same author says , and J. Lazenna ...
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... never attempted to give names to each sheep in their flock , or crow that flies over their heads ; much less to call every leaf of plants , or grain of sand that came in their way , by a peculiar name . 3. And useless . - Secondly , If ...
... never attempted to give names to each sheep in their flock , or crow that flies over their heads ; much less to call every leaf of plants , or grain of sand that came in their way , by a peculiar name . 3. And useless . - Secondly , If ...
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... never be able to know when anything precisely ceases to be of the species of a horse or lead . 14. Each distinct abstract Idea is a distinct Essence . - Nor will any one wonder that I say these essences , or abstract ideas ( which are ...
... never be able to know when anything precisely ceases to be of the species of a horse or lead . 14. Each distinct abstract Idea is a distinct Essence . - Nor will any one wonder that I say these essences , or abstract ideas ( which are ...
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... never have any idea of light , or anything approaching it , though he understood ever so well what little globules were , and what striking on another body was . And therefore the Cartesians very well distinguish between that light ...
... never have any idea of light , or anything approaching it , though he understood ever so well what little globules were , and what striking on another body was . And therefore the Cartesians very well distinguish between that light ...
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... never come to know the signification of that word by any other words or sounds whatsoever , put together according to any rules of definition . The only way is by applying to his senses the proper object , and so producing that idea in ...
... never come to know the signification of that word by any other words or sounds whatsoever , put together according to any rules of definition . The only way is by applying to his senses the proper object , and so producing that idea in ...
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Page 360 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 410 - 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.
Page 410 - God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God...
Page 358 - 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.
Page 313 - Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal Father of light, and Fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties. Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries, communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God.
Page 388 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?