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1 Read | of them in the mind but a capacity to know them, when the “ 2 Int | us in this state.~5. Our capacity suited to our state and 3 Int | fly.~6. Knowledge of our capacity a cure of scepticism and 4 I, I | certainty. So that if the capacity of knowing be the natural 5 I, I | knowing several truths. The capacity, they say, is innate; the 6 I, I | and then he will be in a capacity to know the truth of these 7 I, II | it before, but yet is of capacity to understand its meaning; 8 II, I | knowledge. Thus the first capacity of human intellect is,—that 9 II, VII | quickest thought, or largest capacity; and to furnish the materials 10 II, XIII| I think it may be called capacity. (The term extension is 11 II, XIII| both in their shape and capacity, in infinitum; all which 12 II, XV | magnifies to himself the capacity of his own understanding, 13 II, XVII| for a finite and narrow capacity. And that cannot but be 14 II, XVII| body, as to think of the capacity of a bushel without corn, 15 II, XXI | this narrow scantling of capacity which we are accustomed 16 II, XXI | and so acts merely by the capacity it has to receive such an 17 II, XXI | power, but a mere passive capacity in the subject. Sometimes 18 II, XXI | but a passive power, or capacity. But to be able to bring 19 III, III | beyond the power of human capacity to frame and retain distinct 20 III, III | nature being nothing but the capacity they are put into, by the 21 III, VI | thereof, further exceeds the capacity and comprehension of the 22 III, X | learning, far surpassing the capacity of the illiterate, dull, 23 III, X | that a man of an ordinary capacity very well understands a 24 IV, XII | first sight beyond human capacity. The art of finding proofs,