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1 I, I | themselves say. For, to apply this answer with any tolerable 2 I, I | certainty come to know, if he apply his thoughts rightly that 3 I, III | mouths, yet the notions they apply this name to are so odd, 4 II, XI | they have got the skill to apply the organs of speech to 5 II, XIII | If they say, that they apply it to God, finite spirit, 6 II, XIV | idea of duration, he can apply that notion to things which 7 II, XIV | his sight or touch, can apply it to distances, where no 8 II, XIV | duration in our minds, which we apply to all parts of time whose 9 II, XIV | revolution of the sun, can apply that measure to duration 10 II, XIV | we can, in our thoughts, apply this measure of a year to 11 II, XIV | often as we please, and apply them, so added, to durations 12 II, XIV | proceed in infinitum, and apply thus the length of the annual 13 II, XIV | difficult or absurd, than to apply the notion I have of the 14 II, XIV | and for the same reason, apply it in my thoughts to duration 15 II, XIV | which we can in our minds apply to duration, with which 16 II, XVII | infinite: but yet, when we apply to that first and supreme 17 II, XVII | positive in all those things we apply to it. When we would think 18 II, XXIII | examine them so far as to apply them to our uses, and several 19 II, XXVII | speak as he pleases, and to apply what articulate sounds to 20 II, XXVIII| measure that men commonly apply to determine what they call 21 II, XXVIII| s minds, men frequently apply them to different comparisons 22 II, XXIX | determinate number and order, apply steadily the same name. 23 II, XXXI | expressed by the names we apply to them, they may be very 24 II, XXXI | And thus they ordinarily apply the specific names they 25 II, XXXI | substances. Now, then, when men apply to this particular parcel 26 III, II | speaker: nor can any one apply them as marks, immediately, 27 III, II | own conceptions, and yet apply them to other ideas; which 28 III, II | is evident that each can apply it only to his own idea; 29 III, II | understanding men of that country apply that name.~5. To the reality 30 III, II | men, even when they would apply themselves to an attentive 31 III, III | who hears it, the idea I apply it to in mine, when I speak 32 III, VI | those that would severely apply themselves to that inquiry, 33 III, VI | that new signification we apply them to. ~ 34 III, X | produced no new things to apply them to, or the perplexing 35 III, X | have been accustomed to apply them to, they never trouble 36 III, X | ordinarily have, to which they apply the common words of their 37 III, X | signs: or, 2. When they apply the common received names 38 III, X | of that language does not apply them: or, 3. When they apply 39 III, X | apply them: or, 3. When they apply them very unsteadily, making 40 III, X | vices, and names also, but apply them amiss: v.g. when I 41 III, X | them amiss: v.g. when I apply the name frugality to that 42 III, XI | especially when they would apply their minds to moral matters? 43 III, XI | understood.~11. Third remedy: To apply words to such ideas as common 44 III, XI | they must also take care to apply their words as near as may 45 III, XI | imperfect notions of things, apply them at random, and without 46 III, XI | the notions to which they apply those words afterwards very 47 IV, II | disagreement of any other,) and to apply them right, is, I suppose, 48 IV, III | out, to any one that will apply himself with the same indifferency 49 IV, III | other bodies which we would apply them to, we cannot tell 50 IV, IV | for our necessities, and apply them to our uses. Thus the 51 IV, IV | there it is not safe to apply or use them otherwise: but 52 IV, IV | impropriety of speech to apply them contrary to the common 53 IV, VII | rules and sayings, ready to apply to all particular cases. 54 IV, X | attention; and the mind must apply itself to a regular deduction 55 IV, X | cannot miss, if we will but apply our minds to that, as we 56 IV, XII | again, for assurance, I must apply myself to experience; as