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... men's minds , the knowledge of truth is not so valuable ... a thing , as it is taken to be , nor worth the pains and time men employ in the search of it ; since by this ac- count it amounts to no more than the conformity of words words ...
... men's minds , the knowledge of truth is not so valuable ... a thing , as it is taken to be , nor worth the pains and time men employ in the search of it ; since by this ac- count it amounts to no more than the conformity of words words ...
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... men's heads are filled with , and what strange ideas all men's brains are capable of ? But if we rest here , we know the truth of nothing by this rule , but of the visionary words in our own imagi- nations ; nor have other truth ...
... men's heads are filled with , and what strange ideas all men's brains are capable of ? But if we rest here , we know the truth of nothing by this rule , but of the visionary words in our own imagi- nations ; nor have other truth ...
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... men's abilities , and the criterion of knowledge , adjudged victory to him that kept the field : and he that had the ... men allowed and agreed in , were looked on as general mea- sures of truth , and served instead of principles ...
... men's abilities , and the criterion of knowledge , adjudged victory to him that kept the field : and he that had the ... men allowed and agreed in , were looked on as general mea- sures of truth , and served instead of principles ...
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... men in dispute could not retreat , were by mis- take taken to be originals and sources , from whence all knowledge began , and the foundations whereon the sci- ences were built . Because when in their disputes they came to any of these ...
... men in dispute could not retreat , were by mis- take taken to be originals and sources , from whence all knowledge began , and the foundations whereon the sci- ences were built . Because when in their disputes they came to any of these ...
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... men's having that idea of God in their minds ( for it is evident some men have none , and some worse than none , and the most very different ) for the only proof of a deity : and out of an over - fondness of that darling invention ...
... men's having that idea of God in their minds ( for it is evident some men have none , and some worse than none , and the most very different ) for the only proof of a deity : and out of an over - fondness of that darling invention ...
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Page 136 - 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 203 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.30 For in all sorts of reasoning every single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration; the connection and dependence of ideas...
Page 26 - ... neither oblique, nor rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon ; but all and none of these at once. In effect, it is something imperfect, that cannot exist; an idea wherein some parts of several different and inconsistent ideas are put together.
Page 195 - ... supple and his natural parts not any way inferior. The legs of a dancing-master and the fingers of a musician fall as it were naturally without thought or pains into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain...
Page 127 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 67 - But yet, if after all this any one will be so sceptical as to distrust his senses, and to affirm that all we see and hear, feel and taste, think and do, during our whole being, is but the series and deluding appearances of a long dream, whereof there is no reality...
Page 196 - ... and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it ; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection.
Page 300 - Heat is a very brisk agitation of the insensible parts of the object, which produces In us that sensation, from •whence we denominate the object hot; so what in our sensation is heat, in the object is nothing but motion.
Page 64 - ... deserves the name of knowledge. If we persuade ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning the existence of those objects that affect them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think nobody can, in earnest, be so sceptical as to be uncertain of the existence of those things which he sees and feels.
Page 188 - Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's, minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them ; and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.