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1 I, II | persuasion, however got, will serve to set conscience on work; 2 I, II | rule of human practice, and serve but very little to the conduct 3 I, II | such first principles will serve us to very little purpose; 4 I, III | those faculties which will serve for the sufficient discovery 5 I, III | innate principle which may serve to his purpose who teacheth 6 II, I | confused notion, taken up to serve an hypothesis; and none 7 II, I | I know not what it can serve for but to make many men 8 II, III | Sweet and stinking commonly serve our turn for these ideas, 9 II, IX | its judgment, and make one serve only to excite the other, 10 II, X | in store, quick enough to serve the mind upon occasion. 11 II, X | without them quite, since they serve him to little purpose. The 12 II, X | those ideas that should serve his turn, is not much more 13 II, XI | universal ideas by signs, which serve them instead of general 14 II, XIV | matter. Nothing then could serve well for a convenient measure 15 II, XIV | such regular appearances serve to measure out the distances 16 II, XIV | equidistant periods, they would serve mankind for measure of time 17 II, XIV | the earth, would as well serve men to reckon their years 18 II, XIV | sufficient to make them serve for a measure; though exacter 19 II, XIV | presumed and apparent equality, serve as well to reckon time by ( 20 II, XXI | disguises its true sense, serve a little to palliate the 21 II, XXI | further than this, will not serve the turn: and it passes 22 II, XXI | any one action that may serve to remove this pain. Whence 23 II, XXI | die.” This, I think, may serve to show us the reason, why, 24 II, XXI | follows them here, but as they serve to secure that perfect durable 25 II, XXIII | those which in most of them serve principally to distinguish 26 II, XXIII | an acute sight would not serve to conduct him to the market 27 II, XXIII | of things, yet they will serve us well enough for those 28 II, XXVII | this in machines, and may serve to illustrate it. For example, 29 II, XXVIII| considerable; and such as may serve to let us see from whence 30 II, XXX | with, our ideas do as well serve us to that purpose, and 31 II, XXXIII| if they are not, this may serve to explain their following 32 III, III | useless; because it would not serve to the chief end of language. 33 III, III | particular things, that would not serve them to communicate their 34 III, III | sensible qualities which serve us to distinguish them one 35 III, IV | understood than the other, may serve to discover what idea the 36 III, V | such together as may best serve its own purposes, without 37 III, VI | himself, would no longer serve to conversation and the 38 III, VI | imperfect as they thus are, they serve for common converse. But 39 III, IX | others.~2. Any words will serve for recording. As to the 40 III, IX | ourselves, any words will serve the turn. For since sounds 41 III, IX | and ideas by words, as may serve for the upholding common 42 III, IX | such a use of them as may serve to convey the precise notions 43 III, IX | deal less exactness will serve in the one than in the other, 44 III, IX | to be understood, words serve not well for that end, neither 45 III, IX | these archetypes so well serve to this purpose as to leave 46 III, IX | this imperfection, they may serve for civil, but not well 47 III, XI | though confused enough, yet serve pretty well the market and 48 III, XI | though definitions will serve to explain the names of 49 III, XI | tolerable latitude, that may serve for ordinary conversation: 50 IV, II | intervening ideas, which serve to show the agreement of 51 IV, III | than our knowledge, may serve much to the quieting of 52 IV, III | the former of these will serve us for common use and discourse, 53 IV, V | attentively made use of, serve for a mark to show us what 54 IV, VI | with them, will not yet serve us to make many universal 55 IV, VI | Did we know that, it would serve us only for experimental ( 56 IV, VI | idea in our minds would serve for the one as well as the 57 IV, VII | particularly to what purposes they serve, and to what not.~(1) It 58 IV, VII | in other sciences? They serve here, too, to silence wranglers, 59 IV, VII | maxims, as a touchstone, may serve well to show whither they 60 IV, VII | have said, they sometimes serve in argumentation to stop 61 IV, VII | these general maxims will serve to confirm us in mistakes; 62 IV, VII | which is most common, will serve to prove contradictions: 63 IV, VII | of these principles will serve to prove to us, that any, 64 IV, VII | maxims may and do commonly serve to prove contradictory propositions; 65 IV, VIII | general one, what is, is, may serve sometimes to show a man 66 IV, VIII | Such propositions can only serve to show the disingenuity 67 IV, XI | to the use of life: they serve to our purpose wen enough, 68 IV, XVII | The rules of syllogism serve not to furnish the mind 69 IV, XVII | those ideas, which could serve to show the certain or probable 70 IV, XIX | impose on them, that they serve them for certainty in themselves,