Book,  Chapter

 1   Read         |          exert themselves (even in children and idiots) without any
 2      I,  I     |    imprinted, because not known to children, idiots, &c. For, first,
 3      I,  I     |            it is evident, that all children and idiots have not the
 4      I,  I     |         intelligible. If therefore children and idiots have souls, have
 5      I,  I     |           are by nature imprinted, children cannot be ignorant of them:
 6      I,  I     |          mind; and that as soon as children come to the use of reason,
 7      I,  I     |           reason may we observe in children, a long time before they
 8      I,  I     |            and growing up with it, children commonly get not those general
 9      I,  I     |   understood: seeing all men, even children, as soon as they hear and
10      I,  I     |  propositions not to be innate, if children alone were ignorant of them.~
11      I,  I     |         first possess the minds of children, nor are antecedent to all
12      I,  I     |           is certainly a time when children begin to think, and their
13      I,  I     |          truths? He that will say, children join in these general abstract
14      I,  I     |    discoursing of are not known to children, idiots, and a great part
15      I,  I     |         most force and vigour. For children, idiots, savages, and illiterate
16      I,  I     |            certain the thoughts of children do. It might very well be
17      I,  I     |            pain. But alas, amongst children, idiots, savages, and the
18      I,  I     |           found in the thoughts of children, or any impressions of them
19      I,  II    |            whom the exposing their children, and leaving them in the
20      I,  II    |        Christianity, to bury their children alive without scruple. There
21      I,  II    |           where they eat their own children. The Caribbees were wont
22      I,  II    |            were wont to geld their children, on purpose to fat and eat
23      I,  II    |            wont to fat and eat the children they got on their female
24      I,  II    |          preserve and cherish your children.” When, therefore, you say
25      I,  II    |             nay, and destroy their children; or look on it only as the
26      I,  II    |              Parents preserve your children,” is so far from an innate
27      I,  II    |          parents to preserve their children.” But what duty is, cannot
28      I,  II    |      abortion; not to expose their children; not to take from another
29      I,  II    |           nearest the fountain, in children and illiterate people, who
30      I,  II    |         they call it) to principle children well, (and few there be
31      I,  II    |      because it is natural; nor do children do it where they are not
32      I,  II    |          evidently the case of all children and young folk; and custom,
33      I,  III   |          principles, not born with children. If we will attentively
34      I,  III   |      attentively consider new-born children, we shall have little reason
35      I,  III   |       those which are the first in children, and antecedent to all acquired
36      I,  III   |            he, and every one, even children themselves, have naturally
37      I,  III   |            in the understanding of children, and a character stamped
38      I,  III   |       ridiculous than to say, that children have this practical principle
39      I,  III   |           but if a colony of young children should be placed in an island
40      I,  III   |          notion is discoverable in children? And when we find it there,
41      I,  III   |           He that shall observe in children the progress whereby their
42      I,  III   |          believe,) yet I think few children can be supposed to have
43     II,  I     |        hereafter.~6. Observable in children. He that attentively considers
44     II,  I     |          imprinted on the minds of children. Light and colours are busy
45     II,  I     |            pretty late before most children get ideas of the operations
46     II,  I     |          of its own contemplation. Children when they come first into
47     II,  I     |             evident, if we observe children. I see no reason, therefore,
48     II,  IX    |           in the understanding.~5. Children, though they may have ideas
49     II,  IX    |          Therefore I doubt not but children, by the exercise of their
50     II,  IX    |         are some of the first that children have, and which they scarce
51     II,  IX    |         reasonable to imagine that children receive some ideas before
52     II,  IX    |       introduced into the minds of children in the womb, subservient
53     II,  IX    |           by what is observable in children new-born; who always turn
54     II,  IX    |            divers circumstances of children’s first entertainment in
55     II,  X     |     consideration and reasoning in children, and acting quicker than
56     II,  X     |             either heedless, as in children, or otherwise employed,
57     II,  X     |           produced in the minds of children, in the beginning of their
58     II,  X     |         Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die
59     II,  XI    |          lessened.~8. Naming. When children have, by repeated sensations,
60     II,  XI    |          the new and unusual names children often give to things in
61     II,  XVI   |            of my invention.~7. Why children number not earlier. Thus
62     II,  XVI   |           number not earlier. Thus children, either for want of names
63     II,  XX    |       being and welfare of a man’s children or friends, producing constant
64     II,  XX    |         the very well-being of his children causes delight, is always,
65     II,  XX    |          is always, as long as his children are in such a state, in
66     II,  XXI   |           people cry out, “Give me children.” give me the thing desired, “
67     II,  XXIII |       distinct ideas, we talk like children: who, being questioned what
68     II,  XXIII |            when so used, either by children or men, but that they know
69     II,  XXVIII| parsley-bed, (as they used to tell children), and thereby became his
70     II,  XXXIII|            watched educating young children. I mention this, not out
71     II,  XXXIII|           viz. that those who have children, or the charge of their
72     II,  XXXIII|           15. More instances. Many children, imputing the pain they
73    III,  II    |           therefore some, not only children but men, speak several words
74    III,  III   |           the ideas of the persons children converse with (to instance
75    III,  V     |          the ordinary method, that children learn the names of mixed
76    III,  VI    |          from the ordinary make of children, without knowing whether
77    III,  VI    |       shining colour makes gold to children; others add weight, malleableness,
78    III,  VI    |           somewhat altered. Adam’s children had the same faculties,
79    III,  VI    |        Those, therefore, of Adam’s children, that found these two words,
80    III,  VI    |         application. One of Adam’s children, roving in the mountains,
81    III,  IX    |         For if we will observe how children learn languages, we shall
82    III,  IX    |            being the idea to which children have annexed that name,
83    III,  XI    |      philosophical verity, in that children, being taught words, whilst
84     IV,  VII   |          not so obvious or easy to children, or the yet unexercised
85     IV,  XX    |     bellies, or the cries of their children. It is not to be expected
86     IV,  XX    |         nothing more ordinary than children’s receiving into their minds