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1 I, III | the names of fire, or the sun, heat, or number, do prove 2 I, III | the innate ideas of the sun, or light, or saffron, or 3 I, III | this proposition, “That the sun is lucid, or that saffron 4 II, VIII | it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax 5 II, VIII | eyes, or touch, from the sun, are commonly thought real 6 II, VIII | qualities existing in the sun, and something more than 7 II, VIII | But when we consider the sun in reference to wax, which 8 II, VIII | not as qualities in the sun, but effects produced by 9 II, VIII | warmed or enlightened by the sun, are no otherwise in the 10 II, VIII | are no otherwise in the sun, than the changes made in 11 II, VIII | blanched or melted, are in the sun. They are all of them equally 12 II, VIII | them equally powers in the sun, depending on its primary 13 II, VIII | of heat or light from the sun, we are apt to think it 14 II, VIII | of such a quality in the sun; yet when we see wax, or 15 II, VIII | change of colour from the sun, we cannot imagine that 16 II, VIII | resemblance of anything in the sun, because we find not those 17 II, VIII | different colours in the sun itself. For, our senses 18 II, XIII | may consider light in the sun without its heat, or mobility 19 II, XIV | fair day, may look on the sun, or sea, or ship, a whole 20 II, XIV | The revolutions of the sun and moon, the properest 21 II, XIV | annual revolutions of the sun, as having been, from the 22 II, XIV | depended on the motion of the sun, it has brought this mistake 23 II, XIV | use of. For, supposing the sun, which some have taken to 24 II, XIV | by as the motions of the sun: and in effect we see, that 25 II, XIV | notwithstanding the motion of the sun, which they pretended to 26 II, XIV | the precise motion of the sun. And if the sun moved from 27 II, XIV | motion of the sun. And if the sun moved from the creation 28 II, XIV | notwithstanding the motion of the sun) men should in the antediluvian 29 II, XIV | regular motion, such as of the sun, or some other, how could 30 II, XIV | diurnal revolutions of the sun, and we know not whether 31 II, XIV | equal. The motion of the sun, which the world used so 32 II, XIV | motion than that of the sun, or, (to speak more truly), 33 II, XIV | For if the motion of the sun were as unequal as of a 34 II, XIV | by the revolutions of the sun, or as known parts of such 35 II, XIV | annual revolution of the sun, can apply that measure 36 II, XIV | far back no motion of the sun, nor any motion at all. 37 II, XIV | by any revolutions of the sun,—yet we reckon as right, 38 II, XIV | really at that time the sun had existed, and kept the 39 II, XIV | annual revolution of the sun, is as easily applicable 40 II, XIV | thoughts to duration, where no sun or motion was, as the idea 41 II, XIV | thoughts to duration, where no sun or motion was, as the idea 42 II, XIV | from the revolutions of the sun got the ideas of certain 43 II, XIV | the annual motion of the sun to duration, supposed before 44 II, XIV | duration, supposed before the sun’s or any other motion had 45 II, XIV | co-exist with the motion of the sun now. But yet this hinders 46 II, XIV | to think, that, had the sun shone then on the dial, 47 II, XIV | at this very moment the sun is in. All things past are 48 II, XIV | annual revolutions of the sun, and others a great deal 49 II, XIV | years from the reign of the sun; and the Chinese now, who 50 II, XIV | existed three days before the sun was, or had any motion, 51 II, XIV | duration of light before the sun was created was so long 52 II, XIV | created was so long as (if the sun had moved then as it doth 53 II, XIV | such or such parts of the sun’s revolutions, or any other 54 II, XV | amounts to the distance of the sun or remotest star. By such 55 II, XV | annual revolutions of the sun, moving at the rate it now 56 II, XVII | existence of motion, or the sun, is necessary to duration, 57 II, XXI | power to be melted; that the sun has a power to blanch wax, 58 II, XXI | power to be blanched by the sun, whereby the yellowness 59 II, XXI | or I feel the heat of the sun, though expressed by a verb 60 II, XXIII| others, v.g. man, horse, sun, water, iron: upon hearing 61 II, XXIII| together. Thus, the idea of the sun,—what is it but an aggregate 62 II, XXIII| thinks and discourses of the sun has been more or less accurate 63 II, XXIII| thing which he calls the sun.~7. Their active and passive 64 II, XXIII| out of our ideas of the sun, is no more really in the 65 II, XXIII| is no more really in the sun, than the white colour it 66 II, XXIII| both equally powers in the sun, operating, by the motion 67 II, XXVI | annual revolutions of the sun; and so are all words, answering, 68 II, XXVI | course of nature. But the sun and stars, though they have 69 II, XXXI | impressions from the fire or sun, there would yet be no more 70 II, XXXI | creature to feel it, though the sun should continue just as 71 III, VI | though there be but one sun existing in the world, yet 72 III, VI | answer the idea the name sun stands for, to one who was 73 III, VI | speech, that might be a sun to one which is a star to 74 IV, II | perception, when he looks on the sun by day, and thinks on it 75 IV, III | mean this system of our sun, and the grosser masses 76 IV, VI | millions of miles from the sun, yet depend so much on the 77 IV, VI | excess or defect of the sun’s warmth, which an accidental 78 IV, VI | atmosphere, but even beyond the sun or remotest star our eyes 79 IV, XI | the ideas of light, or the sun, which former sensations 80 IV, XI | eyes at noon towards the sun, I cannot avoid the ideas 81 IV, XI | ideas which the light or sun then produces in me. So 82 IV, XI | between contemplating the sun, as he hath the idea of 83 IV, XII | Stoics, the aether, or the sun; or with Anaximenes, the 84 IV, XIII | and obey God, as that the sun shines when he sees it. 85 IV, XIII | a clear morning that the sun is risen; if he will but 86 IV, XIV | close of the day, when their sun shall set and night shall 87 IV, XIX | it as we do that of the sun at noon, and need not the 88 IV, XIX | assist us to discover the sun, as to examine the celestial 89 IV, XX | that, like motes in the sun, their tendencies are very