Epitome of English literature; or, A concentration of the matter of standard English authors, ed. under the superintendence of A. J. Valpy, Tom 3 |
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... propositions , their truth and cer- 252 260 265 303 307 tainty 309 VII . Of maxims 311 · VIII . Of trifling propositions 318 IX . Of our knowlege of existence 320 X. Of our knowlege of the existence of a God 321 XI . Of our knowlege of ...
... propositions , their truth and cer- 252 260 265 303 307 tainty 309 VII . Of maxims 311 · VIII . Of trifling propositions 318 IX . Of our knowlege of existence 320 X. Of our knowlege of the existence of a God 321 XI . Of our knowlege of ...
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... propositions may be made against truth , and no word is exempt from being used in such proposi- tions ; the fault is not in the word , but in those who improperly use it . And when , on my saying that I scarcely use the word idea ' in ...
... propositions may be made against truth , and no word is exempt from being used in such proposi- tions ; the fault is not in the word , but in those who improperly use it . And when , on my saying that I scarcely use the word idea ' in ...
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... proposition that the mind is capable of assenting to , is imprinted and innate , and that many truths are imprinted ... propositions , What- ever is , is , ' and ' It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be , ' are innate ...
... proposition that the mind is capable of assenting to , is imprinted and innate , and that many truths are imprinted ... propositions , What- ever is , is , ' and ' It is impossible for the same thing to be and not to be , ' are innate ...
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... proposition , that men assent to them when they come to reason , ' is , that , forming general ideas , and understanding general names , being a concomitant of the rational faculty and growing up with it , children do not acquire these ...
... proposition , that men assent to them when they come to reason , ' is , that , forming general ideas , and understanding general names , being a concomitant of the rational faculty and growing up with it , children do not acquire these ...
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... proposition , that men assent to them when they come to reason , ' is , that , forming general ideas , and understanding general names , being a concomitant of the rational faculty and growing up with it , children do not acquire these ...
... proposition , that men assent to them when they come to reason , ' is , that , forming general ideas , and understanding general names , being a concomitant of the rational faculty and growing up with it , children do not acquire these ...
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Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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...
Strona 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.
Strona 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...
Strona 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.