Table of Contents | Words: Alphabetical - Frequency - Inverse - Length - Statistics | Help | IntraText Library
Alphabetical    [«  »]
belbes 1
belief 20
beliefs 1
believe 69
believed 14
believes 6
believing 14
Frequency    [«  »]
70 serve
70 solidity
69 animal
69 believe
69 indeed
69 pass
69 past
John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

IntraText - Concordances

believe

   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | impression. There are few, I believe, who have not observed in 2 I, I | when reason (if we may believe them) is nothing else but 3 I, I | mathematicians will be forward to believe, that all the diagrams they 4 I, II | private thoughts they do not believe to be true, only to keep 5 I, II | they who require men to believe that there are such innate 6 I, II | leave not a possibility to believe any such, to those who cannot 7 I, II | if it were reasonable to believe any at all to be so written. 8 I, II | principles for them, which they believe in,) instil into the unwary, 9 I, II | but accustoming himself to believe them, because they are to 10 I, II | at principles which they believe innate may be easily observed, 11 I, III | have been so forward to believe they were innate. Since, 12 I, III | infancy and childhood, that I believe, upon examination it will 13 I, III | themselves. And if we will not believe La Loubere, the missionaries 14 I, III | that men ought to know or believe of him; all that they ought 15 I, III | with that own it,) yet I believe he that will make it his 16 I, III | not make one forward to believe,) yet I think few children 17 I, III | his head, he may perhaps believe it; but if he hath never 18 II, I | no reason, therefore, to believe that the soul thinks before 19 II, II | reason why—though we cannot believe it impossible to God to 20 II, IX | all animals. Perception, I believe, is, in some degree, in 21 II, XII | should have imagined. And, I believe, we shall find, if we warily 22 II, XIV | in succession: and yet, I believe, nobody who ever felt the 23 II, XIV | computation, though I should not believe to be true, yet I can equally 24 II, XIV | facility imagine (I do not say believe) the world to be 50,000 25 II, XXI | of what they are made, I believe they all might be reduced 26 II, XXIII| of the church seemed to believe that they had bodies: and 27 II, XXVII| reason, and to other men to believe, as they please upon it; 28 II, XXXI | more accurately could, I believe, enumerate ten times as 29 II, XXXII| the mind (as in most men I believe it does) judges these ideas 30 III, VI | usual shape of a man, I believe it would hardly pass for 31 III, IX | truths we are required to believe, or laws we are to obey, 32 III, IX | is not so certain: and I believe it is very seldom that, 33 IV, I | we may fancy, guess, or believe, yet we always come short 34 IV, I | may be thought rather to believe his memory than really to 35 IV, II | knowledge nothing. 2. That I believe he will allow a very manifest 36 IV, III | whereof we are not, nor I believe ever shall be in this world 37 IV, III | forward to make the world believe. Who, either on the one 38 IV, III | determine. This at least I believe, that the ideas of quantity 39 IV, IV | bare imagination: and I believe it will appear that all 40 IV, VII | education, could scarce believe should ever be admitted 41 IV, X | proof of a Deity; and I believe nobody can avoid the cogency 42 IV, XI | several other reasons, to believe with assurance that there 43 IV, XV | so. That which makes me believe, is something extraneous 44 IV, XV | extraneous to the thing I believe; something not evidently 45 IV, XVI | us as little liberty to believe or disbelieve, as a demonstration 46 IV, XVII | argument to those forms: and I believe scarce any one makes syllogisms 47 IV, XVII | number who do any more than believe that syllogisms, in the 48 IV, XVII | have been misled: and I believe there are few of my readers 49 IV, XVIII| faith, and not of reason, to believe that such or such a proposition, 50 IV, XVIII| require or enable me to believe that which is contrary to 51 IV, XVIII| quia impossibile est: I believe, because it is impossible, 52 IV, XIX | the thing itself: what I believe, I take to be so upon the 53 IV, XIX | revelation, because they firmly believe it; and they believe it, 54 IV, XIX | firmly believe it; and they believe it, because it is a revelation.~ 55 IV, XIX | and therefore we ought to believe? Here it is that enthusiasm 56 IV, XIX | revelation, because they strongly believe it to be true. For all the 57 IV, XIX | are received: and if they believe it to be true because it 58 IV, XIX | that it is true, then they believe it to be a revelation only 59 IV, XIX | only because they strongly believe it to be a revelation; which 60 IV, XIX | supreme and sole guide, and to believe any proposition to be true, 61 IV, XIX | be right, only because we believe it to be so? The strength 62 IV, XIX | ourselves up to delusion to believe a lie. For, if strength 63 IV, XX | knowing more, they should believe the less in them. These 64 IV, XX | having nothing to do but believe that they will do the cure: 65 IV, XX | does only with assurance believe it to be so upon the authority 66 IV, XX | inculcated, viz. that he must believe as the church (i.e. those 67 IV, XX | on his mind, that he will believe that to be flesh which he 68 IV, XX | reasoning, That he must believe his reason (for so men improperly 69 IV, XX | as impossible as it is to believe the same thing probable


IntraText® (V89) Copyright 1996-2007 EuloTech SRL