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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | I have been told that a short Epitome of this Treatise, 2 Int | understandings comes exceeding short of the vast extent of things, 3 Int | that leads to a better. How short soever their knowledge may 4 I, II | Principles, that they come short of an universal reception: 5 I, II | pretty way of arguing, and a short cut to infallibility. For 6 I, III | he stopped his thoughts short and went not so far. The 7 I, III | understood, it was, I know, a short and easy way to conclude 8 II, IX | that it comes extremely short of the quickness and variety 9 II, XI | suppose, brutes come far short of man. For, though they 10 II, XI | which we see beasts come short in. And, therefore, I think, 11 II, XI | more, and some less. In short, herein seems to lie the 12 II, XI | And thus I have given a short, and, I think, true history 13 II, XVII | converse with come so much short of any approach or proportion 14 II, XVIII| general, (which is a very short and expedite way of conveying 15 II, XXI | or commanded. This is, in short, to say, that the ability 16 II, XXI | the consideration be as short, the thought as quick as 17 II, XXI | pleases, who prefers the short pleasures of a vicious life 18 II, XXI | learned world, and which, in short, is this: Liberty is a power 19 II, XXI | ideas. And thus I have, in a short draught, given a view of 20 II, XXII | means wrapped up in one short sound, and how much of our 21 II, XXII | ideas, which have but a short existence anywhere but in 22 II, XXIII| body compared. So that, in short, the idea we have of spirit, 23 II, XXVII| of the first. He told me short and coldly, that he had 24 II, XXVII| yesterday, with a long or a short sleep between: the same 25 II, XXVII| thinking substance; in short, the same numerical soul, 26 III, III | conclude. This is that which in short I would say, viz. that all 27 III, V | The use of language is, by short sounds, to signify with 28 III, V | conveniency of expressing in short those ideas it would make 29 III, VI | how infinitely these come short of the fine contrivances 30 III, VI | with others, we may in one short word designate all the individuals 31 III, VI | language, and quick dispatch by short and comprehensive signs, 32 III, VI | to it, needed but use the short monosyllable man, to express 33 III, VI | substances. This, then, in short, is the case: Nature makes 34 III, VI | kinneah to, to express in short to others, by that one sound, 35 IV, I | believe, yet we always come short of knowledge. For when we 36 IV, I | examination I find it comes not short of perfect certainty, and 37 IV, II | knowledge; whatever comes short of one of these, with what 38 IV, III | wherever that fails, we come short of knowledge and demonstration.~ 39 IV, III | knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, 40 IV, III | extent of All-being, and far short of what we may justly imagine 41 IV, III | it about, but even comes short of that too: but how far 42 IV, III | this our knowledge is very short; though in this consists 43 IV, III | nobler beings; and how far short they come of the endowments 44 IV, IV | and here knowledge comes short. Thirdly, There is another 45 IV, IV | knowledge about them may come short of being real. Such are 46 IV, VII | amounting to no more, in short, but this, that the same 47 IV, IX | in this matter, come not short of the highest degree of 48 IV, XII | comprehensive terms and short rules its various and multiplied 49 IV, XII | and provisions come no way short of those of the most flourishing 50 IV, XII | capable, seem to me, in short, to be these two:—~First, 51 IV, XIV | 1. Our knowledge being short, we want something else. 52 IV, XIV | knowledge. For that being very short and scanty, as we have seen, 53 IV, XV | The grounds of it are, in short, these two following:—~First, 54 IV, XVII | artificial forms, than in that short and natural plain order 55 IV, XVII | fabric, yet it comes far short of the real extent of even 56 IV, XVIII| determination where reason came short; and revelation discovered 57 IV, XX | are very few discourses so short, clear, and consistent,


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