Philosophical Works: Preliminary discourse by the editor. On the conduct of the understanding. An essay concerning human understandingBell & Daldy, 1894 |
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... truth frankly , is at times careless , rough , and even slovenly ; but to make amends our minds are delighted and lifted up by the magnificence and vast dimensions of his thoughts , which . circling about the orbit of human genius ...
... truth frankly , is at times careless , rough , and even slovenly ; but to make amends our minds are delighted and lifted up by the magnificence and vast dimensions of his thoughts , which . circling about the orbit of human genius ...
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... Truth , without over- throwing and removing the numerous dens and asylums of Error with which the whole was encumbered . Thus the Essay on the Human Understanding grew to be in part polemical , and the porch of philosophy was filled ...
... Truth , without over- throwing and removing the numerous dens and asylums of Error with which the whole was encumbered . Thus the Essay on the Human Understanding grew to be in part polemical , and the porch of philosophy was filled ...
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... truth . It is a modification of this practice which constitutes the principal charm of Plato's writings ; though in ... truths of the under- standing . Yet he found himself compelled everywhere to make use of this proscribed form of ...
... truth . It is a modification of this practice which constitutes the principal charm of Plato's writings ; though in ... truths of the under- standing . Yet he found himself compelled everywhere to make use of this proscribed form of ...
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... truth which so preeminently distinguish Locke . The questions discussed were of the most abstruse kind : the essence of substance , of nature , of person , of identity and diversity , of the Resurrection , of the Trinity , and the ...
... truth which so preeminently distinguish Locke . The questions discussed were of the most abstruse kind : the essence of substance , of nature , of person , of identity and diversity , of the Resurrection , of the Trinity , and the ...
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... truths , which are commonly suspected for counterfeits , until long use and familiarity have reconciled mankind to ... truth , and the timidity , which though perceiving refuses to acknowledge them , was there- fore wound up to a high ...
... truths , which are commonly suspected for counterfeits , until long use and familiarity have reconciled mankind to ... truth , and the timidity , which though perceiving refuses to acknowledge them , was there- fore wound up to a high ...
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Seite 426 - It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and in a word all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding.
Seite 204 - First, our senses, conversant about particular sensible objects, do 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...
Seite 205 - ... affecting our senses. This source of ideas every man has wholly in himself; and though it be not sense as having nothing to do with external objects, yet it is very like it, and might properly enough be called
Seite 240 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible, Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell...
Seite 97 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits, which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and...
Seite 241 - That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind is what everybody will allow. And to me it seems no less evident that the various sensations or ideas imprinted on the Sense, however blended or combined together (that is, whatever objects they compose), cannot exist otherwise than in a mind perceiving them. I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained of this, by any one that shall attend to what is meant by the term exist when applied to sensible...
Seite 464 - I think, is a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking thing, in different times and places...
Seite 38 - Words, with their pronunciation, etymology, alternative spellings, and various meanings, illustrated by quotations and numerous woodcuts, there are several valuable appendices, comprising a Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World ; Vocabularies of Scripture, Greek, Latin, and English Proper Names ; a Dictionary of the noted Names of Fiction ; a Brief History of the English Language; a Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, Words, Phrases, Proverbs, &c. ; a Biographical Dictionary with 10,000 Names, &c.
Seite 206 - Let any one examine his own thoughts, and thoroughly search into his understanding, and then let him tell me, whether all the original ideas he has there, are any other than of the objects of his senses, or of the operations of his mind considered as objects of his reflection; and how great a mass of knowledge soever he imagines to be lodged there, he will, upon taking a strict view, see that he has not any idea in his mind but what one of these two have imprinted, though perhaps with infinite variety...
Seite 531 - Aside for ever: it may be a sound — A tone of music — summer's eve — or spring — A flower — the wind — the ocean — which shall wound, Striking the electric chain wherewith we are darkly bound...