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1 II, XIII| ideas of certain stated lengths,—such as are an inch, foot, 2 II, XIII| space. When any such stated lengths or measures of space are 3 II, XIII| other lines, of different lengths, and at different angles, 4 II, XIV | whereof are any different lengths of it whereof we have distinct 5 II, XIV | might judge of its different lengths, and consider the distinct 6 II, XIV | succession, as we can of certain lengths of extension, as inches, 7 II, XIV | chronology, that the exact lengths of the years that several 8 II, XIV | another; for two successive lengths of duration, however measured, 9 II, XIV | fixed the ideas of such lengths of duration in our minds, 10 II, XIV | all parts of time whose lengths we would consider; yet there 11 II, XIV | got the ideas of certain lengths of duration,—we can in our 12 II, XIV | in our thoughts add such lengths of duration to one another, 13 II, XIV | get the ideas of certain lengths or measures of duration, 14 II, XV | common idea of continued lengths, capable of greater or less 15 II, XV | and pass beyond all those lengths, and find nothing to stop 16 II, XV | suppose equal to certain lengths of measured time; and so 17 II, XV | preconceived ideas of certain lengths of space and duration,—as 18 II, XV | the addition of such known lengths which it is acquainted with. 19 II, XVII| and years, are bounded lengths. The difficulty is, how 20 II, XVII| has any idea of any stated lengths of space, as a foot, finds 21 II, XVII| as it pleases, of known lengths of space or duration, the 22 II, XVII| things together (as are all lengths whereof we have the positive 23 II, XVII| which are positive ideas of lengths he has in his mind, and