Epitome of English literature; or, A concentration of the matter of standard English authors, ed. under the superintendence of A. J. Valpy, Band 3 |
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... follows the search of truth when it leads out of the common road , I shall set down , for my excuse , the reasons that made me doubt the truth of that opinion . It is commonly taken for granted , that there are certain principles in ...
... follows the search of truth when it leads out of the common road , I shall set down , for my excuse , the reasons that made me doubt the truth of that opinion . It is commonly taken for granted , that there are certain principles in ...
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... by the use of reason men discover them , and that this proves them to be innate , then it follows that whatever truths reason can discover to us are in- nate , and , of consequence , all the maxims HUMAN UNDERSTANDING . 7.
... by the use of reason men discover them , and that this proves them to be innate , then it follows that whatever truths reason can discover to us are in- nate , and , of consequence , all the maxims HUMAN UNDERSTANDING . 7.
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... follow that the idea was innate ; for though no nation were found without a name or some notions of him , it would not prove them to be natural impressions any more than the names of sun , ' ' fire , ' & c . prove the ideas they stand ...
... follow that the idea was innate ; for though no nation were found without a name or some notions of him , it would not prove them to be natural impressions any more than the names of sun , ' ' fire , ' & c . prove the ideas they stand ...
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... follows from this supposition , I answer farther , that what the mind can receive , it may also retain without the body , or the soul has but little advantage in thinking . If it has no memory of its thoughts , and can make no use of ...
... follows from this supposition , I answer farther , that what the mind can receive , it may also retain without the body , or the soul has but little advantage in thinking . If it has no memory of its thoughts , and can make no use of ...
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... follows from this supposition , I answer farther , that what the mind can receive , it may also retain without the body , or the soul has but little advantage in thinking . If it has no memory of its thoughts , and can make no use of ...
... follows from this supposition , I answer farther , that what the mind can receive , it may also retain without the body , or the soul has but little advantage in thinking . If it has no memory of its thoughts , and can make no use of ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
abstract ideas action Æneid agreement or disagreement answer aqua regia argument assent bishop of Worcester body capable certainty CHAPTER clear color complex ideas conceive concerning connexion consciousness consider consists demonstration determined discourse discover distinct ideas distinguish doubt duration equal eternal evident examine existence faculty of thinking faith farther give happiness hath idea of substance immaterial substance infinite infinity innate ideas innate principles inquiry knowlege lege liberty lordship matter maxims measure men's mind mixed modes moral motion natural philosophy nature never nexion nominal essence objects obscure observe operations opinions pain particles particular perceive perception personal identity pleasure primary qualities produce proofs propositions prove qualities rational real essence reason receive resurrection revelation sensation sense sensible signification simple ideas solid sort soul space species spirit stances stand suppose syllogism things thoughts tion true truth understanding uneasiness whereby wherein words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 251 - Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Seite 40 - ... on the other side, in separating carefully one from another Ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude and by affinity to take one thing for another. This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion, wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people...
Seite 216 - Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connexion and agreement, or disagreement and repugnancy, of any of our ideas.
Seite 226 - 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.
Seite 45 - ... we oftentimes find a disease quite strip the mind of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust and confusion, which seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.
Seite 209 - It is evident how much men love to deceive, and be deceived, since rhetoric, that powerful instrument of error and deceit, has its established professors, is publicly taught, and has always been had in great reputation...
Seite 45 - ... 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...
Seite 168 - Words become general by being made the signs of general ideas; and ideas become general by separating from them the circumstances of time and place and any other ideas that may determine them to this or that particular existence.
Seite 208 - But yet, if we would speak of things as they are, we must allow that all the art of rhetoric, besides order and clearness, all the artificial and figurative application of words eloquence hath invented, are for nothing else but to insinuate wrong ideas, move the passions, and thereby mislead the judgment ; and so indeed are perfect cheats...
Seite 45 - The other way of retention, is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas, which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been as it were laid aside out of sight; and thus we do, when we conceive heat or light, yellow or sweet, the object being removed. This is memory, which is as it were the store-house of our ideas.