The Philosophical Works of John Locke, Volume 2George Bell & Sons, 1892 - Philosophy |
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... whereof those invisible ideas , which his thoughts are made up of , might be made known to others . For this purpose nothing was so fit , either for plenty or quickness , as those articulate sounds , which with so much ease and variety ...
... whereof those invisible ideas , which his thoughts are made up of , might be made known to others . For this purpose nothing was so fit , either for plenty or quickness , as those articulate sounds , which with so much ease and variety ...
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... whereof he has none in his own . Till he has some ideas of his own , he cannot suppose them to correspond with the conceptions of another man ; nor can he use any signs for them , for thus they would be the signs of he knows not what ...
... whereof he has none in his own . Till he has some ideas of his own , he cannot suppose them to correspond with the conceptions of another man ; nor can he use any signs for them , for thus they would be the signs of he knows not what ...
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... the idea I apply it to in mine , when I speak it . This cannot be done by names applied to particular things , whereof I alone having the ideas in my mind , the names CHAP . III . ] 9 OF GENERAL TERMS . -Of General Terins.
... the idea I apply it to in mine , when I speak it . This cannot be done by names applied to particular things , whereof I alone having the ideas in my mind , the names CHAP . III . ] 9 OF GENERAL TERMS . -Of General Terins.
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... whereof that name is the sign . 17. Supposition , that Species are distinguished by their real Essences useless . - Concerning the real essences of corporeal substances to mention these only - there are , if I mistake not , two opinions ...
... whereof that name is the sign . 17. Supposition , that Species are distinguished by their real Essences useless . - Concerning the real essences of corporeal substances to mention these only - there are , if I mistake not , two opinions ...
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... whereof is , as I am apt to think , not seldom the occasion of great wrangling and obscurity in men's discourses , whilst some demand definitions of terms that cannot be defined ; and others think they ought not to rest satisfied in an ...
... whereof is , as I am apt to think , not seldom the occasion of great wrangling and obscurity in men's discourses , whilst some demand definitions of terms that cannot be defined ; and others think they ought not to rest satisfied in an ...
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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?