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1 Ded | perfection. Worthless things receive a value when they are made 2 Read | every one not be able to receive it with that seasoning; 3 Read | not had the good luck to receive any light from those exceptions 4 I, I | given sight, and a power to receive them by the eyes from external 5 I, I | impressions which the souls of men receive in their first beings, and 6 I, I | they are not taught, nor do receive from the force of any argument 7 I, I | to stamp within? Can they receive and assent to adventitious 8 I, II | assent wherewith others receive them, are manifest proofs 9 I, II | it could neither want nor receive any proof; but must needs ( 10 I, II | several moral rules may receive from mankind a very general 11 I, II | themselves. Whoever shall receive any of these into his mind, 12 I, III | same taste that it used to receive from thence? Is it the actual 13 I, III | capacities were capable to receive so incomprehensible and 14 I, III | faculties and means to discover, receive, and retain truths, according 15 I, III | were fitted by nature to receive and judge of them, when 16 II, I | ourselves, do from these receive into our understandings 17 II, I | ideas which it doth not receive from one of these two. External 18 II, I | whatever ideas the mind can receive and contemplate without 19 II, I | that the mind is fitted to receive the impressions made on 20 II, I | organs, the mind is forced to receive the impressions; and cannot 21 II, III | to conceive the ideas we receive from sensation, it may not 22 II, III | is peculiarly adapted to receive them. Thus light and colours, 23 II, III | that by our palates we receive ideas of, much better provided 24 II, IV | Idea of Solidity ~1. We receive this idea from touch. The 25 II, IV | The idea of solidity we receive by our touch: and it arises 26 II, IV | There is no idea which we receive more constantly from sensation 27 II, V | eyes and touch; and we can receive and convey into our minds 28 II, VII | and the ideas which we receive from them, as also to several 29 II, VII | those simple ideas which we receive from sensation and reflection. 30 II, VIII | heat or light, which we receive by our eyes, or touch, from 31 II, VIII | see wax, or a fair face, receive change of colour from the 32 II, IX | affect them in the womb, receive some few ideas before they 33 II, IX | to imagine that children receive some ideas before they come 34 II, IX | perception, that the ideas we receive by sensation are often, 35 II, IX | colour; when the idea we receive from thence is only a plane 36 II, IX | once placed it, and there receive the afflux of colder or 37 II, XIII | touch; by either of which we receive into our minds the ideas 38 II, XIV | are thinking, or whilst we receive successively several ideas 39 II, XV | equal to, or capable to receive, a body of any assigned 40 II, XVIII| continually to give and receive information about might 41 II, XIX | are stopped, so that they receive not outward objects with 42 II, XX | the simple ideas which we receive both from sensation and 43 II, XX | pleasure and pain which we receive from their use and application 44 II, XXI | able to make, or able to receive any change. The one may 45 II, XXI | possibility in the thing itself to receive it. But yet, if we will 46 II, XXI | whether the mind doth not receive its idea of active power 47 II, XXI | by the capacity it has to receive such an impression from 48 II, XXI | in thinking, a power to receive ideas or thoughts from the 49 II, XXI | which by our senses we receive from body: Perceptivity, 50 II, XXI | which by reflection we receive from our minds.~I crave 51 II, XXI | which God has fitted it to receive from them, and how the mind 52 II, XXIII| those simple ideas which we receive immediately from it, does, 53 II, XXIII| any substance, to give or receive such alterations of primary 54 II, XXIII| that the simple ideas we receive from sensation and reflection 55 II, XXIII| made of the simple ideas we receive from reflection: v.g. having, 56 II, XXIII| those which by reflection we receive from the operation of our 57 II, XXIII| spirits no other but what we receive from thence: and all the 58 II, XXIII| are restrained to those we receive from sensation and reflection, 59 II, XXV | to it, though the other receive in itself no alteration 60 II, XXVI | to exist; and that they receive this their existence from 61 II, XXVII| those parts as is fit to receive and distribute nourishment, 62 II, XXVII| order, and well fitted to receive it.~6. The identity of man. 63 II, XXVII| knows nothing of, but shall receive his doom, his conscience 64 II, XXVII| never been done: and to receive pleasure or pain, i.e. reward 65 II, XXVII| day, when every one shall “receive according to his doings, 66 II, XXIX | over-hardened with cold, will not receive the impression of the seal, 67 II, XXIX | evident perception, as it does receive from an outward object operating 68 II, XXXI | were there no fit organs to receive the impressions fire makes 69 II, XXXI | joined to those organs to receive the ideas of light and heat 70 II, XXXI | is fitted to give to or receive from other substances in 71 II, XXXI | that one body is apt to receive, and make in other bodies, 72 II, XXXI | the alterations it would receive from, or cause in, other 73 II, XXXII| as God has fitted us to receive, and given power to external 74 III, II | as well as himself might receive profit and delight; yet 75 III, VI | qualities which entitle them to receive their names. Thus, if the 76 III, VI | neither be drawn by it nor receive direction from it, would 77 III, IX | they are apt to make in, or receive from other bodies, are almost 78 III, IX | the baser metals is apt to receive, from the different application 79 III, IX | changes any of them will receive in the hands of a chymist, 80 III, X | the use of the words they receive from them: yet, where truth 81 IV, II | certain than that the idea we receive from an external object 82 IV, III | make us capable there to receive the retribution he has designed 83 IV, III | have shown) to those we receive from corporeal objects by 84 IV, III | things; what ideas they may receive of them far different from 85 IV, IV | come to an account, and receive according to what they have 86 IV, VI | it is capable to make or receive on or from other bodies. 87 IV, VII | are wholly independent; receive no light, nor are capable 88 IV, VII | in neither of these do we receive our light or knowledge from 89 IV, VII | and most commonly make men receive and retain falsehood for 90 IV, XI | senses, and the ideas we receive by them, that we know not 91 IV, XII | unquestionable truths; and so receive them without examination, 92 IV, XII | with an implicit faith, to receive and swallow principles; 93 IV, XII | impose on us, by making us receive that for an unquestionable 94 IV, XIII | senses cannot choose but receive some ideas by them; and 95 IV, XIII | objects, the mind cannot but receive those ideas which are presented 96 IV, XIV | they shall accordingly receive their rewards at the close 97 IV, XV | found to persuade us to receive it as true, without certain 98 IV, XV | only some inducements to receive them for true. The grounds 99 IV, XV | balancing the whole, reject or receive it, with a more or less 100 IV, XVI | renounce their own, and receive our opinions, or at least 101 IV, XVI | probability, on which they should receive or reject it. Those who 102 IV, XVI | that the propositions we receive upon inducements of probability 103 IV, XVI | all that mention it, we receive it as easily, and build 104 IV, XVI | strength and evidence does it receive from them. This I thought 105 IV, XVI | have in many cases, and we receive from it a great part of 106 IV, XVII | to their judgments, and receive their opinion in debate, 107 IV, XVIII| faculties; and can by no means receive them, or any of them, from 108 IV, XVIII| our faculties, by which we receive such revelations, can exceed, 109 IV, XVIII| knowledge, we can never receive for a truth anything that 110 IV, XVIII| to pay obedience, and to receive the truths revealed to others, 111 IV, XVIII| only which can induce us to receive them. For matter of faith 112 IV, XVIII| original, in the words we receive it, and in the sense we 113 IV, XIX | probability to us; and we can receive it for no other than such 114 IV, XIX | as such: which, as it can receive no evidence from our passions 115 IV, XIX | interests, so it should receive no tincture from them.~2. 116 IV, XIX | his eyes, the better to receive the remote light of an invisible 117 IV, XIX | obedient to the impulses they receive from themselves; and the 118 IV, XIX | I mistake not, these men receive it for true, because they 119 IV, XIX | warrants it, and we may safely receive it for true, and be guided 120 IV, XIX | belief and actions: if it receive no testimony nor evidence 121 IV, XIX | opinion or action, we may receive it as of divine authority: 122 IV, XX | absurd, which a man may not receive upon this ground. There