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vague 2
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John Locke
An essay concerning human understanding

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   Book,  Chapter
1 Read | obscurely that it is in vain to go about to mend it. 2 Read | or cannot do this, he in vain pretends to clear or distinct 3 Int | at the wrong end, and in vain sought for satisfaction 4 I, I | or all adventitious: in vain shall a man go about to 5 I, I | such a general assent is in vain urged as a proof of them: 6 I, I | that be done, you will in vain endeavour to make any child 7 I, II | truth, or else they are in vain distinguished from speculative 8 I, III | matter in hand, it will be in vain to argue from such a topic, 9 I, III | innate principles as are in vain supposed to be in all mankind 10 II, I | without remembering it, in vain urged. It will perhaps be 11 II, XXI | philosophers of old did in vain inquire, whether summum 12 II, XXI | me. But neither being so vain as to fancy infallibility, 13 II, XXVII | and diversity would be in vain, and there could be no such 14 II, XXVIII| since it would be utterly in vain to suppose a rule set to 15 II, XXVIII| that law. It would be in vain for one intelligent being 16 II, XXXIII| ever so reasonable, are in vain; and therefore some in whom 17 III, II | else they should talk in vain, and could not be understood, 18 III, III | of language. Men would in vain heap up names of particular 19 III, VI | when they, sometimes in vain, seek for the same qualities 20 III, VI | creatures. Therefore we in vain pretend to range things 21 III, VI | specific difference it is in vain to inquire; whilst our measures 22 III, X | spoken against. And it is in vain to find fault with those 23 III, XI | easy to find. I am not so vain as to think that any one 24 III, XI | whose business is only the vain ostentation of sounds; i.e. 25 IV, II | mind of perceiving, we in vain inquire after the quickness 26 IV, III | being it is: and it is in vain to go about to be sceptical 27 IV, III | the other.~14. And seek in vain for certain and universal 28 IV, III | qualities in substances. In vain, therefore, shall we endeavour 29 IV, IV | the bare empty vision of vain, insignificant chimeras 30 IV, VI | to us in them; and we in vain search for that constitution 31 IV, VII | influence will reach, it is in vain to endeavour, nor will I 32 IV, XI | observe how foolish and vain a thing it is for a man 33 IV, XI | swayed accordingly; how vain, I say, it is to expect 34 IV, XII | certain than that he will in vain seek any demonstration about 35 IV, XVII | and in that case it is in vain to implore the help of reason, 36 IV, XVIII | far by faith, we shall in vain dispute, and endeavour to 37 IV, XVIII | our ideas, it will be in vain to urge them as matters 38 IV, XIX | these two ways, they in vain suppose it to be a revelation. 39 IV, XX | Divine Spirit, and you in vain bring the evidence of clear


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