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1 Int | proportionate; and where they fail us, I suppose it may be 2 I, I | innate. For since men never fail after they have once understood 3 I, III | propositions that could fail to assent to them; though 4 II, I | some tangible qualities fail not to solicit their proper 5 II, XI | organs, want words, yet fail not to express their universal 6 II, XIV | taken notice of, would not fail to measure out the course 7 III, II | evident, in that they often fail to excite in others (even 8 III, VI | it is a truth will always fail us in its particular application, 9 III, IX | idea: for then he cannot fail of having his meaning understood, 10 III, X | their hypothesis, seldom fail to coin new words, and such 11 III, X | these three.~First, Words fail in the first of these ends, 12 III, X | quickness. Secondly, Men fail of conveying their thoughts 13 III, X | existence.~26. How men’s words fail in all these: First, when 14 III, X | chimeras.~32. How men’s words fail when they stand for substances. 15 III, X | eyes look red, and his feet fail him; and yet not know that 16 IV, II | senses, which in this point fail us. But where the difference 17 IV, IV | they may, and often do, fail of being exactly conformable 18 IV, XVII| fails us where our ideas fail. It neither does nor can