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1 Read | it is the most elevated faculty of the soul, so it is employed 2 I, I | is nothing else but the faculty of deducing unknown truths 3 I, I | use of reason, but on a faculty of the mind quite distinct 4 I, I | observed and assented to when a faculty of the mind, which has quite 5 I, I | concomitant of the rational faculty, and growing up with it, 6 I, I | exercise its discursive faculty. And the use of reason becomes 7 II, I | should make so admirable a faculty which comes nearest the 8 II, I | exercise, to improve its faculty of thinking in the several 9 II, VIII | notice of by our discerning faculty, it is by the mind looked 10 II, IX | PERCEPTION, as it is the first faculty of the mind exercised about 11 II, IX | animals and vegetables. This faculty of perception seems to me 12 II, X | Contemplation. The next faculty of the mind, whereby it 13 II, X | by the assistance of this faculty, that we are said to have 14 II, X | intellectual beings, which in this faculty may so far excel man, that 15 II, X | Brutes have memory. This faculty of laying up and retaining 16 II, XI | without discernment. Another faculty we may take notice of in 17 II, XI | employed in thinking. On this faculty of distinguishing one thing 18 II, XI | upon this clear discerning faculty of the mind, whereby it 19 II, XI | knowledge, that so far as this faculty is in itself dull, or not 20 II, XI | far brutes partake in this faculty, is not easy to determine. 21 II, XI | imagine that they have not the faculty of abstracting, or making 22 II, XI | instead of general words, a faculty which we see beasts come 23 II, XI | have not (as I think) the faculty to enlarge them by any kind 24 II, XI | appear to me to have lost the faculty of reasoning, but having 25 II, XII | Made voluntarily. In this faculty of repeating and joining 26 II, XVI | numbers, or not having yet the faculty to collect scattered ideas 27 II, XVIII| there put together, by the faculty the mind has to repeat its 28 II, XXI | commanding and superior faculty of the soul; that it is 29 II, XXI | what is the will, but the faculty to do this? And is that 30 II, XXI | to do this? And is that faculty anything more in effect 31 II, XXI | either to other, has that faculty called will? Will, then, 32 II, XXI | free. However, the name faculty, which men have given to 33 II, XXI | will, under the name of a faculty, is considered as it is, 34 II, XXI | we should make a speaking faculty, and a walking faculty, 35 II, XXI | speaking faculty, and a walking faculty, and a dancing faculty, 36 II, XXI | walking faculty, and a dancing faculty, by which these actions 37 II, XXI | say that it is the singing faculty sings, and the dancing faculty 38 II, XXI | faculty sings, and the dancing faculty dances, as that the will 39 II, XXI | that it was the digestive faculty. What was it that made anything 40 II, XXI | the body? the expulsive faculty. What moved? the motive 41 II, XXI | What moved? the motive faculty. And so in the mind, the 42 II, XXI | the mind, the intellectual faculty, or the understanding, understood; 43 II, XXI | understood; and the elective faculty, or the will, willed or 44 II, XXI | understand, understood. For faculty, ability, and power, I think, 45 II, XXI | indifferency of that operative faculty is taken away by that motion; 46 II, XXIII| knowledge, who had but the faculty so to alter the structure 47 II, XXIV | as it does, by the same faculty, make the complex ideas 48 III, III | spontaneous motion, and the faculty of reasoning, I doubt not 49 III, IV | Sancho Panza, who had the faculty to see Dulcinea by hearsay. 50 III, VI | found wanting, and not the faculty of reason, which nobody 51 III, VI | sense, and motion, with the faculty of reasoning, and a certain 52 III, IX | both the intention and the faculty of speaking as clearly as 53 III, X | or man, of body and the faculty of reasoning joined together; 54 III, XI | determine that species, than a faculty of reasoning, which appears 55 IV, I | the first exercise of this faculty is about particular ideas. 56 IV, II | to the mind that has its faculty of perception left to a 57 IV, II | so if the mind have the faculty of distinct perception, 58 IV, II | If the eyes have lost the faculty of seeing, or the mind of 59 IV, III | pleases, superadd to matter a faculty of thinking, than that he 60 IV, III | another substance with a faculty of thinking; since we know 61 IV, VIII | our knowledge lies in the faculty we have of perceiving the 62 IV, XIII | have any distinguishing faculty, cannot but perceive the 63 IV, XIV | our want of knowledge. The faculty which God has given man 64 IV, XIV | such a loose survey. This faculty of the mind, when it is 65 IV, XIV | occasion to employ this faculty, I shall, under these terms, 66 IV, XVII | that is, as it stands for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby 67 IV, XVII | for a faculty in man, that faculty whereby man is supposed 68 IV, XVII | the exercise of any other faculty, but outward sense and inward 69 IV, XVII | In both these cases, the faculty which finds out the means, 70 IV, XVII | usefullest way of exercising this faculty. The causes I have to doubt 71 IV, XVII | these rules; it has a native faculty to perceive the coherence 72 IV, XVII | great act of the rational faculty, and so it is when it is 73 IV, XVII | the eye, or the perceptive faculty, of the mind, taking a view 74 IV, XVII | the terms, and hath the faculty to perceive the agreement 75 IV, XVII | no use of the discursive faculty, no need of reasoning, but