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1 Ded | my lord, your words and actions so constantly show on all 2 Read | the Will in all voluntary actions. This I cannot forbear to 3 Read | rule which men refer their actions to, I went about to make 4 Read | of and denominate their actions according to the esteem 5 Read | reputation which several sorts of actions find variously in the several 6 Read | way of denominating their actions, did not for the most part 7 Read | rectitude and gravity of their actions, and accordingly denominate 8 Int | govern his opinions, and actions depending thereon, we need 9 Int | himself; and men’s words and actions will satisfy him that they 10 I, I | their ordinary discourse and actions with others, acknowledged 11 I, I | think, and their words and actions do assure us that they do 12 I, II | have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters 13 I, II | operate and influence all our actions without ceasing: these may 14 I, II | springs and motives of all our actions, to which we perpetually 15 I, II | approbation of them, whose actions sufficiently prove that 16 I, II | transgress them.~7. Men’s actions convince us that the rule 17 I, II | most men, but think their actions to be the interpreters of 18 I, II | rectitude or pravity of our own actions; and if conscience be a 19 I, II | indifferency survey their actions, will be able to satisfy 20 I, II | excites and directs the actions of all men; or else, that 21 I, II | which influences all men’s actions, is what I have proved by 22 I, II | blame on it? Principles of actions indeed there are lodged 23 I, II | commonly it is, for those actions which, according to the 24 I, II | If virtue be taken for actions conformable to God’s will, 25 I, II | rule or principle of his actions as he was before. And I 26 I, II | instructive, till what those actions are that are meant by sins 27 I, II | to signify in general ill actions that will draw punishment 28 I, II | knowing what those particular actions are that will do so? Indeed 29 I, II | to have been taught what actions in all kinds are sins: but 30 I, II | from the knowledge of the actions themselves, and the rules 31 I, II | keep a register of their actions, or date the time when any 32 I, II | all his past thoughts and actions, and endure to bring upon 33 II, I | comprehending not barely the actions of the mind about its ideas, 34 II, I | all consciousness of our actions and sensations, especially 35 II, VI | itself, and observes its own actions about those ideas it has, 36 II, VI | two great and principal actions of the mind, which are most 37 II, VII | ideas.~3. As motives of our actions. The infinite wise Author 38 II, VII | in which consist all the actions of our body: having also 39 II, VII | attention, to excite us to these actions of thinking and motion that 40 II, IX | we consider how quick the actions of the mind are performed. 41 II, IX | have no extension; so its actions seem to require no time, 42 II, IX | this in comparison to the actions of the body. Any one may 43 II, IX | come at last to produce actions in us, which often escape 44 II, X | return of the objects or actions that produce them, fix themselves 45 II, X | scene of all their former actions, wherein no one of the thoughts 46 II, XVI | applies itself to men, angels, actions, thoughts; everything that 47 II, XVIII | knowledge of men, and their actions, and the signifying of them 48 II, XVIII | therefore they made ideas of actions very nicely modified, and 49 II, XVIII | complex ideas of modified actions, belonging to their several 50 II, XIX | and contemplates its own actions, thinking is the first that 51 II, XXI | powers which produce these actions. (1) Of thinking, body affords 52 II, XXI | continue or end several actions of our minds, and motions 53 II, XXI | soul that performed those actions of understanding and volition. 54 II, XXI | obey, and perform several actions, as so many distinct beings; 55 II, XXI | or put an end to several actions in himself. From the consideration 56 II, XXI | power of the mind over the actions of the man, which everyone 57 II, XXI | Liberty, what. All the actions that we have any idea of 58 II, XXI | clear notions of internal actions by sounds, that I must here 59 II, XXI | power to think on its own actions, and to prefer their doing 60 II, XXI | faculty, by which these actions are produced, which are 61 II, XXI | faculties, by which the actions of choosing and perceiving 62 II, XXI | in the man, to do several actions, he exerts them as he thinks 63 II, XXI | wills. So that in respect of actions within the reach of such 64 II, XXI | wherever one stops, the actions of the last will cannot 65 II, XXI | is in regard of all other actions in our power so proposed, 66 II, XXI | vast number of voluntary actions that succeed one another 67 II, XXI | be done; and in all such actions, as I have shown, the mind, 68 II, XXI | consequences, as the contrary actions, may, on that consideration, 69 II, XXI | consideration, well enough pass for actions too: but this I say, that 70 II, XXI | about nothing but our own actions; terminates there; and reaches 71 II, XXI | the will in regard to our actions? And that, upon second thoughts, 72 II, XXI | and sets us upon those actions we perform. This uneasiness 73 II, XXI | the successive voluntary actions, whereof the greatest part 74 II, XXI | carry his will to other actions. On the other side, let 75 II, XXI | we all aim at in all our actions. For, as much as whilst 76 II, XXI | will in all the successive actions it directs; and then we 77 II, XXI | still, or directing our actions to any other end: the eternal 78 II, XXI | thoughts, as well as other actions, would, if it were so, hold 79 II, XXI | that train of voluntary actions which makes up our lives. 80 II, XXI | indifferent and visibly trifling actions, to which our wills are 81 II, XXI | direction of their particular actions, which are the means to 82 II, XXI | depends the turn of their actions, does not lie in this,—That 83 II, XXI | seeming to comprehend only the actions of a man consecutive to 84 II, XXI | that, in all the particular actions that he wills, he does, 85 II, XXI | steady in the choice of those actions which lead to future happiness. 86 II, XXI | But since our voluntary actions carry not all the happiness 87 II, XXI | immortal soul hereafter, actions in his power will have their 88 II, XXI | considering consequences of actions. (II) As to things good 89 II, XXI | supposed unpleasantness of the actions which are the way to this 90 II, XXI | indifferency that is in actions into pleasure and desire, 91 II, XXI | virtue too, is very certain. Actions are pleasing or displeasing, 92 II, XXI | easy in the omission of, actions, which habitual practice 93 II, XXI | that men can make things or actions more or less pleasing to 94 II, XXI | the train of our voluntary actions determines the will to any 95 II, XXI | though called and counted actions, yet, if nearly considered, 96 II, XXI | found rather passions than actions; and consequently so far 97 II, XXI | mistakes about powers and actions, which grammar, and the 98 II, XXII | nor a distinct species of actions from that of killing a young 99 II, XXII | was no notion of any such actions; no use of such combinations 100 II, XXII | things themselves, being actions that required time to their 101 II, XXII | where the ideas of these actions are supposed to be lodged, 102 II, XXII | explaining the names of actions we never saw, or motions 103 II, XXII | power, from whence these actions are conceived to flow. These 104 II, XXII | their minds, of modes of actions, distinguished by their 105 II, XXII | powers fitted for those actions: v.g. boldness is the power 106 II, XXII | consideration and assent, which are actions of the mind; running and 107 II, XXII | and speaking, which are actions of the body; revenge and 108 II, XXII | revenge and murder, which are actions of both together, and we 109 II, XXIII | are apt to think these the actions of some other substance, 110 II, XXVII | succession, such as are the actions of finite beings, v.g. motion 111 II, XXVII | whole train of all our past actions before our eyes in one view, 112 II, XXVII | its present thoughts and actions, that it is self to itself 113 II, XXVII | consciousness can extend to actions past or to come. and would 114 II, XXVII | consciousness uniting those distant actions into the same person, whatever 115 II, XXVII | the consciousness of past actions can be transferred from 116 II, XXVII | the consciousness of past actions is annexed to any individual 117 II, XXVII | conscious of any of Socrates’s actions or thoughts, could be the 118 II, XXVII | consciousness of any of the actions either of Nestor or Thersites, 119 II, XXVII | concerned in either of their actions? attribute them to himself, 120 II, XXVII | them his own, more than the actions of any other men that ever 121 II, XXVII | not reaching to any of the actions of either of those men, 122 II, XXVII | conscious of any of the actions of Nestor, he then finds 123 II, XXVII | accountable only for the prince’s actions: but who would say it was 124 II, XXVII | Consciousness alone unites actions into the same person. But 125 II, XXVII | past—unites existences and actions very remote in time into 126 II, XXVII | does the existences and actions of the immediately preceding 127 II, XXVII | consciousness of present and past actions, is the same person to whom 128 II, XXVII | itself, and owns all the actions of that thing, as its own, 129 II, XXVII | making part of itself, whose actions then it cannot but admit 130 II, XXVII | or could own any of its actions, or have any of them imputed 131 II, XXVII | same person that did those actions, had those thoughts that 132 II, XXVII | man for the sober man’s actions, nor the sober man for what 133 II, XXVII | often have of their past actions; and the mind many times 134 II, XXVII | or consciousness of past actions, as we find our minds always 135 II, XXVII | consciousness of former actions, makes also a part of the 136 II, XXVII | forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; and so 137 II, XXVII | and imputes to itself past actions, just upon the same ground 138 II, XXVII | therefore whatever past actions it cannot reconcile or appropriate 139 II, XXVII | same that committed those actions, and deserve that punishment 140 II, XXVIII| disagreement men’s voluntary actions have to a rule to which 141 II, XXVIII| which denominates our moral actions, and deserves well to be 142 II, XXVIII| obscurity and confusion. Human actions, when with their various 143 II, XXVIII| not all that concerns our actions: it is not enough to have 144 II, XXVIII| is, to know whether such actions, so made up, are morally 145 II, XXVIII| disagreement of our voluntary actions to some law, whereby good 146 II, XXVIII| rectitude or pravity of their actions, there seem to me to be 147 II, XXVIII| suppose a rule set to the free actions of men, without annexing 148 II, XXVIII| being to set a rule to the actions of another, if he had it 149 II, XXVIII| men generally refer their actions to, to judge of their rectitude 150 II, XXVIII| men judge whether their actions are sins or duties; by the 151 II, XXVIII| which God has set to the actions of men,—whether promulgated 152 II, XXVIII| and wisdom to direct our actions to that which is best: and 153 II, XXVIII| moral good or evil of their actions; that is, whether, as duties 154 II, XXVIII| the commonwealth to the actions of those who belong to it— 155 II, XXVIII| to which men refer their actions; to judge whether they be 156 II, XXVIII| everywhere to stand for actions in their own nature right 157 II, XXVIII| attributed only to such actions as in each country and society 158 II, XXVIII| name of virtue to those actions, which amongst them are 159 II, XXVIII| the world: whereby several actions come to find credit or disgrace 160 II, XXVIII| approving or disapproving of the actions of those whom they live 161 II, XXVIII| variously compare their actions: and it is by their conformity 162 II, XXVIII| rectitude, and denominate their actions good or bad.~14. Morality 163 II, XXVIII| the relation of voluntary actions to these rules. Whether 164 II, XXVIII| we bring our voluntary actions, to examine them by, and 165 II, XXVIII| we take the rule of moral actions; or by what standard soever 166 II, XXVIII| prescribed by some law.~15. Moral actions may be regarded either absolutely, 167 II, XXVIII| conceive rightly of moral actions, we must take notice of 168 II, XXVIII| a parrot. Secondly, our actions are considered as good, 169 II, XXVIII| 16. The denominations of actions often mislead us. But because 170 II, XXVIII| misled in their judgment of actions. Thus, the taking from another 171 II, XXVIII| for the relation of human actions to a law, which, therefore, 172 II, XXXI | to measure and denominate actions by, as they agreed to it. 173 II, XXXII | to determine of several actions, whether they are to be 174 II, XXXIII| opinions, reasonings, and actions of other men. The least 175 II, XXXIII| force to set us awry in our actions, as well moral as natural, 176 III, I | made use of to stand for actions and notions quite removed 177 III, V | made laws about species of actions which were only the creatures 178 III, V | go no further than human actions themselves, if they would 179 III, VI | ourselves, and from the actions of our own minds in thinking, 180 III, VI | part of mixed modes, being actions which perish in their birth, 181 III, VI | two distinct species of actions essentially different; I 182 III, VI | two distinct species of actions? And it is plain it consisted 183 III, VII | contemplation of several actions of our minds in discoursing, 184 III, X | annexed to them, to denominate actions and relations by, as they 185 III, XI | which pattern so made, all actions that agree shall pass under 186 IV, III | reason, from their words and actions, to be satisfied: and the 187 IV, IV | of murder. As for other actions, the truth of that proposition 188 IV, IV | rational creature, when his actions carry far less marks of 189 IV, VI | Their observable qualities, actions, and powers are owing to 190 IV, XI | not both memory, or the actions of his mind, and fancies 191 IV, XI | certainty to govern his actions by than what is as certain 192 IV, XI | what is as certain as his actions themselves. And if our dreamer 193 IV, XII | give a bias to all their actions. Who might not justly expect 194 IV, XIV | dark, and in most of the actions of his life, perfectly at 195 IV, XVI | absolutely, and influence all our actions as fully, as the most evident 196 IV, XVI | he does of the being and actions of his own acquaintance, 197 IV, XIX | guidance of heaven in their actions and opinions, especially 198 IV, XIX | powerfully on the persuasions and actions of men than either of those 199 IV, XIX | opinions and extravagant actions enthusiasm has run men into 200 IV, XIX | either in our tenets or actions. And what readier way can 201 IV, XIX | by it in our belief and actions: if it receive no testimony 202 IV, XIX | truths or excite them to good actions, by the immediate influence 203 IV, XX | dissent, are often voluntary actions. But where the proofs are 204 IV, XXI | applying our own powers and actions, for the attainment of things 205 IV, XXI | rules and measures of human actions, which lead to happiness, 206 IV, XXI | power, which are his own actions, for the attainment of his 207 IV, XXI | in themselves knowable; actions as they depend on us, in