EssaysCarey & Lea, 1834 - 68 Seiten |
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... true answer is , when he first has any sensation . For since there appear not to be any ideas in the mind , before the senses have conveyed any in , I conceive that ideas in the understanding are coeval with sensation . " The volumes be ...
... true answer is , when he first has any sensation . For since there appear not to be any ideas in the mind , before the senses have conveyed any in , I conceive that ideas in the understanding are coeval with sensation . " The volumes be ...
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... true , far short of the great aim of metaphysical inquiry ; but this imperfection is common to every system which has yet been invented or formed with simi- lar views and purposes . The analysis of knowledge which oc- * We cannot ...
... true , far short of the great aim of metaphysical inquiry ; but this imperfection is common to every system which has yet been invented or formed with simi- lar views and purposes . The analysis of knowledge which oc- * We cannot ...
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... true liberty , equal and impartial liberty , would suffice . The sen- timents to which he gives utterance are worthy of all admira- tion : -that our fealty to God depends upon our opinion of what will be most acceptable to him , and ...
... true liberty , equal and impartial liberty , would suffice . The sen- timents to which he gives utterance are worthy of all admira- tion : -that our fealty to God depends upon our opinion of what will be most acceptable to him , and ...
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... true source of power is to be placed in the people , for whose benefit all government is instituted . Although Locke distinctly maintains the derivation and ter- mination of all political power from and in the governed , he has fallen ...
... true source of power is to be placed in the people , for whose benefit all government is instituted . Although Locke distinctly maintains the derivation and ter- mination of all political power from and in the governed , he has fallen ...
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... true character of a partisan leader is ever liable to miscon- ception by those who are removed from the vortex of politics , and who look upon its windings with uninterested feelings . The errors of the actor may be those of the head ...
... true character of a partisan leader is ever liable to miscon- ception by those who are removed from the vortex of politics , and who look upon its windings with uninterested feelings . The errors of the actor may be those of the head ...
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Seite 16 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book : who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book. kills reason itself; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Seite 16 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 49 - THOUGH THERE BE no such thing as chance in the world, our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding and begets a like species of belief or opinion.
Seite 8 - ... attribute several truths to the impressions of nature and innate characters, when we may observe in ourselves faculties fit to attain as easy and certain knowledge of them as if they were originally imprinted on the mind.
Seite 24 - ... all mankind, will sufficiently do that. Instead of that, give me leave to assure you, that I am more ready to forgive you than you can be to desire it ; and I do it so freely and fully, that I wish for nothing more than the opportunity to convince you that I truly love and esteem you ; and that I have still the same good will for you as if nothing of this had happened. To confirm this to you more fully, I should be glad to meet you anywhere...
Seite 11 - Thus the first years are usually employed and diverted in looking abroad. Men's business in them is to acquaint themselves with what is to be found without; and so, growing up in a constant attention to outward sensations, seldom make any considerable reflection on what passes within them till they come to be of riper years; and some scarce ever at all.
Seite 16 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the Church and Commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how Bookes demeane themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Seite 21 - ... useless in our hands ; and if by harassing our bodies ( though with a design to render ourselves more useful ) we deprive ourselves of the abilities and opportunities of doing that good we might have done with a meaner talent, which God thought sufficient for us by having denied us the strength to improve it to that pitch which men of stronger constitutions can attain to , we rob God of so much service, and our neighbour of all that help, which, in a state of health, with moderate knowledge,...
Seite 23 - I desire you to forgive me this uncharitableness. For I am now satisfied that what you have done is just, and I beg your pardon for my having hard thoughts of you for it, and for representing that you struck at the root of morality, in a principle you laid down in your book of ideas, and designed to pursue in another book, and that I took you for a Hobbist.
Seite 28 - In the latter part of the seventeenth century, and in the first part of the eighteenth...