An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Том 1Cummings & Hilliard and J.T. Buckingham; J.T. Buckingham, Printer, 1813 |
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... never failed to accompany them . To all this , you are pleased to add that which gives yet more weight and relish to all the rest : you vouchsafe to continue me in fome degrees of your esteem , and allow me a place in your good thoughts ...
... never failed to accompany them . To all this , you are pleased to add that which gives yet more weight and relish to all the rest : you vouchsafe to continue me in fome degrees of your esteem , and allow me a place in your good thoughts ...
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... never before considered , which I set down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this discourse ; which having been thus begun by chance , was continu- ed by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels ; and , after long ...
... never before considered , which I set down against our next meeting , gave the first entrance into this discourse ; which having been thus begun by chance , was continu- ed by entreaty ; written by incoherent parcels ; and , after long ...
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... never before printed , he has engag- ed to print by themselves , after the same manner , and for the same purpose , as was done when this Essay had the second impression . In the sixth edition , there is very little added or al- tered ...
... never before printed , he has engag- ed to print by themselves , after the same manner , and for the same purpose , as was done when this Essay had the second impression . In the sixth edition , there is very little added or al- tered ...
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... ration , are duration . 10 Their parts infeparable . 11 Duration is as a line , expansion as a folid . 12 Duration has never two parts to- gether , expanfion all together . SECT . CHAP . XVI . Of number . 1 xxiv The Contents .
... ration , are duration . 10 Their parts infeparable . 11 Duration is as a line , expansion as a folid . 12 Duration has never two parts to- gether , expanfion all together . SECT . CHAP . XVI . Of number . 1 xxiv The Contents .
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... never neg- lected . 39 Defire accompanies all uneafiness . 40 The most preffing uneafinefs natur- ally determines the will . 41 All defire happiness . 42 Happiness what . 45 What good is desired , what not . 44 Why the greatest good is ...
... never neg- lected . 39 Defire accompanies all uneafiness . 40 The most preffing uneafinefs natur- ally determines the will . 41 All defire happiness . 42 Happiness what . 45 What good is desired , what not . 44 Why the greatest good is ...
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abstract ideas actions amongst annexed appear assent becauſe belong capable cerning CHAP CHIG clear color complex ideas conceive concerning consciousness consider desire determined discourse distinct ideas distinguish doubt duration effence eral evident existence extension faculties fame body farther fimple fubftance happiness hath ideas of substances identity imprinted infinite infinity innate ideas innate principles knowledge liberty lordſhip men's mind mixed modes motion muſt names nature never nominal essence objects observe operations particles of matter particular perceive perception perhaps plain positive idea produce propositions raiſed real essence reaſon receive refurrection relation ſame ſay sensation and reflection sensation or reflection senses sensible qualities ſhall ſhould signify simple ideas solidity sort soul ſpeak species spirit stand ſubſtance ſuch supposed things thoſe thoughts tion true truth understanding uneasiness UNIV uſe whereby wherein whereof whilst wrong judgement
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Страница 126 - 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...
Страница xxix - THIS, therefore, being my purfiose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
Страница 105 - 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.
Страница 92 - Our observation employed either about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge from whence all the ideas we have or can naturally have do spring.
Страница 108 - 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.
Страница 115 - These I call original or primary qualities of body, which I think we may observe to produce simple ideas in us, viz. solidity, extension, figure, motion or rest, and number. §10. Secondly, such qualities which in truth are nothing in the objects themselves, but powers to produce various sensations in us by their primary qualities, ie by the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of their insensible parts, as colours, sounds, tastes, &c.
Страница xxx - It will be no Excuse to an Idle and Untoward Servant, who would not attend his Business by Candle-light, to plead that he had not broad Sun-shine. The Candle, that is set up in us, shines bright enough for all our Purposes.
Страница 38 - Characters, as it were stamped upon the Mind of Man, which the Soul receives in its very first Being; and brings into the World with it.
Страница xxix - Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and dominion which he has over them; it is certainly a subject, even for its nobleness, worth our labour to inquire into.
Страница 115 - Beyond all this we may find another reason why God hath scattered up and down several degrees of pleasure and pain, in all the things that environ and affect us, and blended them together, in almost all that our thoughts and senses have to do with ; that we, finding imperfection, dissatisfaction, and want of complete happiness, in all the enjoyments which the creatures can afford us, might be led to seek it in the enjoyment of Him " with whom there is fulness of joy, and at whose right hand are pleasures...