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1 II, XV | of our Lord 1671, or the 1000th year of the Julian period. 2 II, XXVI | invaded England about the year 1066; which means this, That, 3 I, III | Journal du Voyage de Siam, 107/177, it consists properly 4 IV, XI | that water did exist the 10th of July, 1688; as it will 5 I, II | of the 25th of January, 1616.~Where then are those innate 6 II, XVI | Sextillions Quintrillions 857324 162486 345896 437918 423147~Quartrillions 7 I, II | Instinctu Naturali, p. 72, ed. 1656, I met with these six marks 8 II, XV | in the year of our Lord 1671, or the 1000th year of the 9 I, III | Journal du Voyage de Siam, 107/177, it consists properly in 10 II, XVI | Billions Millions Units 248106 235421 261734 368149 623137~The 11 II, XVI | Billions Millions Units 248106 235421 261734 368149 623137~ 12 Ded | JOHN LOCKE~Dorset Court,~24th of May, 1689~ 13 I, II | Valle, in his letter of the 25th of January, 1616.~Where 14 II, XVI | Millions Units 248106 235421 261734 368149 623137~The ordinary 15 II, XIV | who account the world 3,269,000 years old, or more; 16 III, VI | was of Caen.” (Menagiana, 278, 430.) This child, we see, 17 II, XVI | Quintrillions 857324 162486 345896 437918 423147~Quartrillions 18 II, XVI | Units 248106 235421 261734 368149 623137~The ordinary way 19 II, XVI | 857324 162486 345896 437918 423147~Quartrillions Trillions 20 III, VI | Caen.” (Menagiana, 278, 430.) This child, we see, was 21 II, XVI | Quintrillions 857324 162486 345896 437918 423147~Quartrillions Trillions 22 II, XXI | desires in particular cases.~53. Power to suspend. This 23 II, XXI | satisfaction of any desire.~54. Government of our passions 24 II, XXI | presence of God, if he will.~55. How men come to pursue 25 II, XXI | drinking, wine is naught.~56. All men seek happiness, 26 II, XXI | exist no more for ever.~57. Power to suspend volition 27 II, XXI | great and near concernment.~58. Why men choose what makes 28 II, XXI | has made them miserable?~59. The causes of this. To 29 II, XXI | and that by our own fault.~60. Our judgment of present 30 II, XXI | determination of his choice.~61. Our wrong judgments have 31 II, XXI | the pursuit of happiness.~62. From a wrong judgment of 32 II, XVI | 248106 235421 261734 368149 623137~The ordinary way of naming 33 II, XXI | durable happiness hereafter.~63. A more particular account 34 II, XXI | considered as good and evil.~64. No one chooses misery willingly, 35 II, XXI | himself must confess to be so.~65. Men may err in comparing 36 II, XXI | that will follow from it.~66. Causes of our judging amiss 37 II, XXI | blindfold, into its embraces.~67. Absent good unable to counterbalance 38 II, XXI | absent considered as future.~68. Wrong judgment in considering 39 II, XXI | these following are some:—~69. Causes of this. (i) Ignorance: 40 II, XXI | though of great influence.~70. Wrong judgment of what 41 II, XXI | bring themselves to it.~71. We can change the agreeableness 42 II, XXI | other, real or imaginary.~74. Active and passive power, 43 II, XXI | product of active power.~75. Summary of our original 44 II, XVI | Sextillions Quintrillions 857324 162486 345896 437918 423147~ 45 II, XVI | next immediate excess to 90. But it is not so in extension, 46 II, XVI | distinguishable from go as from 9000, though 91 be the next immediate 47 III, XI | have anything offered, to abate the length or lessen the 48 II, XX | Desire also is stopped or abated by the opinion of the impossibility 49 I, III | plurality of gods: or, as the Abbe de Choisy more judiciously 50 III, X | habitation who has no settled abode. This I guess to be so; 51 I, II | than one; not to procure abortion; not to expose their children; 52 IV, XII | life, in a country that abounded with all sorts of natural 53 II, XIV | For should one say, that Abraham was born in the two thousand 54 IV, VII | nor will I attempt, to abridge it. But yet, without any 55 II, XXI | agent: such determination abridges not that power wherein liberty 56 II, XXI | upon us. And because the abstinence from a present pleasure 57 II, XXIX | what division in general or abstractedly is, and the relation of 58 Read | established prejudice, or the abstractedness of the ideas themselves, 59 II, XV | would consider them, either abstractly in themselves, or as any 60 II, XII | treat in their order.~8. The abstrusest ideas we can have are all 61 II, XIII | without solidity, must talk absurdly whenever they speak of vacuum; 62 II, XV | portions of those infinite abysses of space and duration, set 63 I, I | business of the schools and academies of learned nations, accustomed 64 IV, XIX | inclination.~8. Enthusiasm accepts its supposed illumination 65 II, XXIX | same name. But this neither accommodating men’s ease or vanity, nor 66 II, XXVI | having a relation to the accomplishing the voyage intended, and 67 II, X | in our minds of their own accord, and offer themselves to 68 I, I | known. But that I may not be accused to argue from the thoughts 69 II, XXVII | his doom, his conscience accusing or excusing him.~23. Consciousness 70 IV, VII | familiar to its thoughts, and accustoms itself to have recourse 71 II, XXI | with that sick stomach and aching head which, in some men, 72 III, XI | of them; but we must, by acquainting ourselves with the history 73 II, XXXI | should: so that the mind acquiesces in them, and can find nothing 74 IV, XVII | exercised; which is the acquiescing of the mind, that any ideas 75 Read | much boast of any great acquisition.~This, Reader, is the entertainment 76 II, XXI | that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.~( 77 III, VI | substances which are the actors; and wherein the simple 78 IV, XIX | acquiesce and rejoice in it, are actuated by it: and nobody can be 79 III, IV | own language, that it was “actus entis in potentia quatenus 80 IV, XVII | reason there perhaps as acutely as himself, who yet never 81 II, XXIII | and made much quicker and acuter, the appearance and outward 82 II, XVII | to indivisibility, as the acutest thought of a mathematician; 83 II, XVII | bounds made with body, even adamantine walls, are so far from putting 84 IV, XII | proceed as reason advises, adapt our methods of inquiry to 85 II, XVII | incomprehensible remainder of endless addible numbers, which affords no 86 III, XI | obstinate in their errors.~6. Addicted to wrangling about sounds. 87 II, X | has once had, with this additional perception annexed to them, 88 II, XXI | avoided; as by industry, address, change, repentance, &c.~ 89 I, II | these innate principles: Adeo ut non uniuscujusvis religionis 90 IV, I | the truth of it. In his adherence to a truth, where the demonstration 91 II, XXIII | rest in and be, as it were, adherent to that unknown common subject, 92 II, III | else, more or less firm adhesion of the parts, as hard and 93 II, XIII | place by reference to those adjacent things which best served 94 III, VIII | substantive, the other an adjective; as whiteness, white; sweetness, 95 II, VII | gives us new occasion of admiring the wisdom and goodness 96 IV, XIV | whereof might be a constant admonition to us, to spend the days 97 II, XXI | solicitation of our natural or adopted desires, but a constant 98 IV, XVII | to say, that this age is adorned with some men of that strength 99 II, VII | if I may so call it) run adrift, without any direction or 100 II, IX | man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch 101 III, XI | from counterfeit, pure from adulterate, by the sight, where others ( 102 IV, XVII | of a mind floating at all adventures, without choice and without 103 II, VII | that they will do, and as advices to withdraw from them. But 104 IV, XII | we will proceed as reason advises, adapt our methods of inquiry 105 I, II | Ibi (sc. prope Belbes in AEgypto) vidimus sanctum unum Saracenicum 106 II, XIII | of the ninth book of his AEneids, and that they have been 107 III, X | significant: and should aerial and aetherial vehicles come 108 IV, XI | Many of these are called aeternae veritates, and all of them 109 III, X | significant: and should aerial and aetherial vehicles come once, by the 110 II, XXXI | as it is now, and Mount AEtna flame higher than ever it 111 IV, VIII | be joined negatively and affirmatively in propositions, as their 112 III, VI | liberty also that Adam had of affixing any new name to any idea, 113 II, IX | it, and there receive the afflux of colder or warmer, clean 114 II, IX | shortening of a rope, by the affusion of water. All which is done 115 II, X | not at first, but by their after-endeavours, should produce the like 116 II, XXIII | inadvertency, we are apt afterward to talk of and consider 117 II, XXI | agent. Convulsive motions agitate his legs, so that though 118 IV, XVI | fire consists in a violent agitation of the imperceptible minute 119 II, XXXIII| with it the idea of that agony which he suffered from his 120 II, XIV | others. For a fit of an ague; the sense of hunger or 121 III, IX | supposed here to afford some aid, to settle the signification 122 III, X | and the Schoolmen since, aiming at glory and esteem, for 123 II, XXI | a man who has any great aims in this world, or hopes 124 III, VI | are not strangers to the airy region: and there are some 125 II, IX | uniform colour, v.g. gold, alabaster, or jet, it is certain that 126 Read | points, and to take the alarm even at expressions, which, 127 I, I | abhorrence of pain. But alas, amongst children, idiots, 128 I, II | they are these: 1. Esse aliquod supremum numen. 2. Numen 129 IV, V | a divisibility into such aliquot parts, does really agree 130 IV, III | respect of the extent of All-being, and far short of what we 131 III, X | learned disputants, these all-knowing doctors, it was to the unscholastic 132 II, XXXIII| on the rack, and hope to allay, by rational discourses, 133 II, XX | the uneasiness is cured or allayed by that consideration. This 134 IV, XVI | that there is no more to be alleged for his better information? 135 II, XXXIII| independent ideas, of no alliance to one another, are, by 136 II, XXXIII| combination of ideas, not allied by nature, the mind makes 137 II, XXIII | that in this globe of earth allotted for our mansion, the all-wise 138 II, XXI | pleasures in prospect draw or allure.~35. The greatest positive 139 II, VIII | sensation in us.~20. Pound an almond, and the clear white colour 140 Read | raised himself above the alms-basket, and, not content to live 141 IV, XX | on the one hand, nor at Alms-houses or Bedlam on the other. 142 IV, XII | founders of hospitals and almshouses. He that first invented 143 III, X | that the letters of the alphabet stand for. These learned 144 II, XXVIII| them, some way or other alterable, and separable from the 145 II, XXIII | different thing; and the thus altering, as it were, the proportion 146 | although 147 II, XVII | times. All that we thus amass together in our thoughts 148 IV, XVIII | considerate man cannot but stand amazed at their follies, and judge 149 II, XVIII | conversant in, without long ambages and circumlocutions; and 150 IV, XV | As it happened to a Dutch ambassador, who entertaining the king 151 Read | and many additions and amendments in other places. These I 152 Read | correctness of it, shall make amends for the many faults committed 153 I, II | Mahometistis, ut eos, qui amentes et sine ratione sunt, prosanctis 154 II, XIII | do here, an intelligent American, who inquired into the nature 155 I, II | distinguished from others: that so, amidst the great variety of pretenders, 156 II, XVII | Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille Labitur, et labetur 157 I, III | representations of their deities; the amours, marriages, copulations, 158 III, VI | the middle between both: amphibious animals link the terrestrial 159 I, II | templa vel monumenta extruunt amplissima, eosque contingere ac sepelire 160 IV, VIII | a great deal of useless amusement and dispute; and very much 161 III, X | they have attained, than by amusing the men of business, and 162 II, XIV | miles; but yet something analogous to them there must be. For 163 II, XV | will look into the minute anatomical parts of matter, is little 164 IV, XII | aether, or the sun; or with Anaximenes, the air, to be God; and 165 IV, III | of an obtuse and an acute angled triangle, both drawn from 166 I, III | habere quod Deum, et hominis animam significet; nulla sacra 167 II, XIII | filled by the parts of the annihilated body will still remain, 168 II, XXIII | well as its soporific or anodyne virtues, mere powers, depending 169 II, XIV | the sun) men should in the antediluvian world, from the beginning, 170 I, III | us who profess themselves Anthropomorphites, (though some I have met 171 IV, III | beyond the line; and the Antipodes would be still as much unknown, 172 Ded | give it price, and not any antique fashion; and though it be 173 IV, XII | bodily pleasure; and in Antisthenes, who made virtue sufficient 174 III, IX | transgress, we may be less anxious about the sense of other 175 III, VI | as is to be found in an ape, or an elephant, and never 176 III, XI | he has a clearer idea of apium or ibex, from a little print 177 I, III | And had the Virginia king Apochancana been educated in England, 178 II, XXXIII| That which will yet more apologize for this harsh name, and 179 III, VI | memory, or both; and an apoplexy leave neither sense, nor 180 II, XXVII | conformable to this, the apostle tells us, that, at the great 181 II, XXII | the idea of a triumph or apotheosis exists, it is evident they 182 III, IX | standard in nature, which he appeals to, and with reason thinks 183 II, XXV | one or both of them some appellation from that comparison; and 184 III, VI | and to others by distinct appellations?~42. Substances alone, of 185 III, V | as, by a peculiar right, appertaining to the understanding.~13. 186 II, XXXIII| of conviction, and they applaud themselves as zealous champions 187 III, IV | and with great admiration applauded the skill of the workman. 188 III, X | acuteness, and has had the applause of the schools, and encouragement 189 II, XXI | relish were to be found in apples, plums, or nuts, and have 190 III, II | he could not arbitrarily appoint what idea any sound should 191 IV, III | effects produced by the appointment of an infinitely Wise Agent, 192 II, XXI | though yet, whilst he apprehends that the removal of the 193 IV, XI | notice of itself to our apprehensive faculties, and actually 194 I, II | loco vidimus, publicitus apprime commendari, eum esse hominem 195 II, XVI | different from that which approacheth nearest to it, as the most 196 II, XXVII | actions it cannot reconcile or appropriate to that present self by 197 III, II | use, by a tacit consent, appropriates certain sounds to certain 198 II, XXVII | It is a forensic term, appropriating actions and their merit; 199 IV, XX | common cause, and thereby approve himself to those who can 200 II, XXVIII| of thinking well or ill, approving or disapproving of the actions 201 IV, X | that notion which men are aptest to have of God; who would 202 III, VI | link the terrestrial and aquatic together; seals live at 203 IV, XVII | mind perceives, that an arch of a circle is less than 204 IV, XII | had in it. He that, with Archelaus, shall lay it down as a 205 II, XIII | if, desiring to learn our architecture, he should be told that 206 I, II | uniuscujusvis religionis confinio arctentur quae ubique vigent veritates. 207 III, VI | wife Adah, (whom he most ardently loved) that she had too 208 I, II | sanctum unum Saracenicum inter arenarum cumulos, ita ut ex utero 209 I, III | universality of consent, so much argued, if it prove any native 210 IV, XVII | to knowledge. For, 1. It argues not another man’s opinion 211 IV, VIII | used in discourses, equally argumentative and controversial, there 212 III, XI | denomination, than, having seen Aristides, to frame an idea that shall 213 IV, XII | another kind of life in Aristippus, who placed happiness in 214 II, XXIX | no more than we can in arithmetic, about a number of which 215 II, XXVII | consciousness that I saw the ark and Noah’s flood, as that 216 III, IX | physicians, where by chance there arose a question, whether any 217 II, XX | almost starved has joy at the arrival of relief, even before he 218 IV, XII | real knowledge which men arrived to in these sciences, was 219 I, III | hope it will not be thought arrogance to say, that perhaps we 220 IV, X | esse oportere tam stulte arrogantem, ut in se mentem et rationem 221 III, VI | sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as 222 II, XXXIII| on some occasion got the ascendant, the idea of authority and 223 IV, XVI | several degrees of perfection, ascending upwards towards the infinite 224 I, II | and not need any proof to ascertain its truth, nor want any 225 III, XI | sometimes necessary, for the ascertaining the signification of words, 226 IV, VII | what hath been by some men ascribed to these maxims may be apt 227 II, XV | another; and methinks it ascribes a little too much to matter 228 IV, XVIII | deceive not ourselves, in ascribing it to God; secondly, that 229 I, II | puerorum, sed tantummodo asellarum concubitor atque mularum. ( 230 I, III | discourses as it does in assaulting of towns; where, if the 231 IV, XVII | councils, and the business of assemblies, would be in danger to be 232 I, II | Modus conformationis, i.e. Assensus mulla interposita mora. 233 II, XIII | conversation. It requires pains and assiduity to examine its ideas, till 234 II, XVII | years, or ages, or any other assignable portion of duration past, 235 IV, XX | that; but differ only in assigning of reasons and explaining 236 IV, XVIII | injured or disturbed, but assisted and improved by new discoveries 237 II, XXXIII| the understanding, but its associate appears with it; and if 238 II, XXXIII| it. That there are such associations of them made by custom, 239 IV, XIX | of a man’s own brain, and assumes them for a foundation both 240 IV, XIX | beliefs, from whence. The assuming an authority of dictating 241 II, XIV | there is no body.~26. The assumption that the world is neither 242 II, XXXIII| hears the arguings, and is astonished at the obstinacy of a worthy 243 I, II | despatch them, if a pretended astrologer declares them to have unhappy 244 I, II | whimsical, sceptical, or atheist; which he is sure to meet 245 IV, VI | beyond this our earth and atmosphere, but even beyond the sun 246 III, IV | causes, or any otherwise. The atomists, who define motion to be “ 247 III, III | reason why men have never attempted to give names to each sheep 248 II, X | glorious spirits, his immediate attendants, any of his perfections; 249 IV, XX | turn. The tenet has had the attestation of reverend antiquity; it 250 IV, XVI | weaker: and a third that attests the hearsay of an hearsay 251 II, XXI | charms, and put so strong attractions of easiness and pleasure 252 III, IV | should be visible, or colours audible; and to make the ears do 253 II, III | them from without to their audience in the brain,—the mind’s 254 I, II | maximae fortunae ducunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta et dicenda per 255 IV, XVI | can observe, lessen and augment, as the quantity does in 256 II, XXIII | certain colour, is, by thus augmenting the acuteness of our senses, 257 III, II | And therefore the great Augustus himself, in the possession 258 III, VIII | ventured on such terms, as aurietas and saxietas, metallietas 259 II, XXVII | Ismael, Socrates, Pilate, St. Austin, and Caesar Borgia, to be 260 IV, X | caelo mundoque non putet? Aut ea quae vix summa ingenii 261 IV, XVI | probability, to pass for authentic truths; and those which 262 III, VI | is said, (sit fides penes authorem, but there appears no contradiction 263 IV, XVII | speaking, yet common use has so authorized it, that it would be folly 264 II, IX | though in some possibly the avenues provided by nature for the 265 III, V | give occasion to the most averse or negligent to reflect 266 I, II | who through laziness or avocation do not, or for want of time, 267 Int | scruple acquiesce in the avowed ignorance of the one, and 268 II, XXIII | pressure may hinder the avulsion of two polished superficies, 269 IV, XIX | and they see; they have awakened sense, and they feel: this 270 II, XXI | his power to get out: he awakes, and is glad to find himself 271 Read | every side. After we had awhile puzzled ourselves, without 272 II, XXXIII| so great force to set us awry in our actions, as well 273 III, VI | language will be like that of Babel; and every man’s words, 274 IV, XVII | approved writer. Whoever backs his tenets with such authorities, 275 IV, XX | or no; or whether Roger Bacon was a mathematician or a 276 IV, III | something in it which manifestly baffles our understandings. Other 277 III, VI | animal rationale. And if Balaam’s ass had all his life discoursed 278 III, III | with, and have ranked into bands under distinct names or 279 IV, XVII | hands to fence with and bang one another. Had the King 280 III, IX | word sham, or wheedle, or banter, in use, put together as 281 I, III | profligate wretches own it too barefacedly now; yet perhaps we should 282 I, II | degree to make it a very ill bargain to the transgressor. Without 283 II, XXVII | continue and frame the wood, bark, and leaves, &c., of an 284 II, XXXII | complex idea the power of barking like a dog: which three 285 III, I | in English, ignorance and barrenness. All which negative or privative 286 Ded | PEMBROKE AND MONTGOMERY,~BARRON HERBERT OF CARDIFF,~LORD 287 III, IX | alterations any one of the baser metals is apt to receive, 288 III, VI | the water he put in his basin at night in a great part 289 Ded | great neighbour, by whom the basket of flowers or fruit is not 290 IV, XVI | general, and that he won a battle against another, called 291 II, XXIII | white colour, long neck, red beak, black legs, and whole feet, 292 I, I | principles, that all these native beams of light (were there any 293 III, IV | blind man, who had mightily beat his head about visible objects, 294 IV, XII | with Plato, shall place beatitude in the knowledge of God, 295 III, X | sex, has too prevailing beauties in it to suffer itself ever 296 II, XIV | successive ideas: v.g. a man becalmed at sea, out of sight of 297 | became 298 | becoming 299 II, I | is not; no more than the bed or earth he lies on. For 300 II, XXI | insects; whereof some are bees, delighted with flowers 301 II, XXI | their sweetness; others beetles, delighted with other kinds 302 II, XX | of future evil likely to befal us.~11. Despair is the thought 303 III, IX | there is no end; comments beget comments, and explications 304 II, XXVIII| is the same betwixt the begetter and the begotten, in the 305 I, II | condemned or scrupled as the begetting them? Do they not still, 306 II, I | a matter of fact, it is begging it to bring, as a proof 307 II, XXI | life, depending on their behaviour here, the measures of good 308 II, XII | causing delight to the beholder; theft, which being the 309 I, II | published in. Ibi (sc. prope Belbes in AEgypto) vidimus sanctum 310 IV, XIX | forwardness to dictate another’s beliefs, from whence. The assuming 311 IV, XX | the croaking of their own bellies, or the cries of their children. 312 Quot | things.—Eccles. 11. 5.~Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius 313 II, XXI | the griping of an hungry belly to those dishes which are 314 III, VI | pieces: he finds it will bend without breaking. Is not 315 I, II | of society, and visibly beneficial to all with whom the virtuous 316 II, XXIII | owner could not be much benefited by that acuteness; which, 317 III, X | This learning very little benefits society. For, notwithstanding 318 I, III | voyage of the Bishop of Beryte, c. 13, (not to mention 319 III, VI | figure of a man, that it bespake him rather a monster. It 320 Read | The taking notice that men bestow the names of “virtue” and “ 321 II, VIII | sensation of pain, ought to bethink himself what reason he has 322 III, VI | severe ways of examination, betray qualities so different one 323 III, IV | the former of motion, yet betrays its uselessness and insignificancy 324 II, IX | one place to another, be bettered by them. What good would 325 III, XI | sounds, without convincing or bettering a man’s understanding. For 326 I, II | volunt intrandi, edendi, bibendi, et quod majus est, concumbendi; 327 I, II | whilst a man thus openly bids defiance to this innate 328 II, XXVII | answered, Oui, moi; et je scai bien faire; and made the chuck 329 II, XVI | which shall be the next biggest to a right one.~5. Names 330 II, IX | other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued 331 II, XXI | ball obeys the motion of a billiard-stick, it is not any action of 332 II, XVI | Quartrillions Trillions Billions Millions Units 248106 235421 333 II, XXXII | others about them, is to bind them into bundles, and rank 334 II, XI | credibly informed that a bitch will nurse, play with, and 335 II, XXV | brother, king, husband, blacker, merrier, &c., are words 336 I, I | cat it plays with, nor the blackmoor it is afraid of: that the 337 II, XXVIII| vice, which they account blamable: since otherwise they would 338 II, XXI | that the sun has a power to blanch wax, and wax a power to 339 II, VIII | to wax, which it melts or blanches, we look on the whiteness 340 II, XXI | my mistakes for fear of blemishing my reputation, I have, with 341 Int | constitution, and throw away the blessings their hands are filled with, 342 II, XXXIII| there must be something that blinds their understandings, and 343 II, I | they are imprinted, nor blot them out and make new ones 344 II, XIV | freezing of water, or the blowing of a plant, returning at 345 III, VI | inside: he finds it yield to blows, but not easily separate 346 II, XIII | distinct from that of one, as blueness from heat, or either of 347 II, XXIX | infinite, we are very apt to blunder, and involve ourselves in 348 I, II | education and custom, be blurred and blotted out; if they 349 II, XX | have for us, has not always blushing accompanying it.~18. These 350 II, XIII | part of the earth, or in Bodley’s library: but the right 351 IV, IV | ordinary, and then you begin to boggle: make the face yet narrower, 352 II, XXI | contemplations: and sometimes a boisterous passion hurries our thoughts, 353 Int | satisfaction, if they will not boldly quarrel with their own constitution, 354 IV, III | instead thereof, with Egyptian bondage, expect Egyptian darkness, 355 Quot | the Spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her 356 Read | what I have written.~The booksellers preparing for the Fourth 357 I, III | Soldania, in Brazil, [in Boranday,] and in the Caribbee islands, & 358 IV, XV | truth: yet some of them border so near upon certainty, 359 II, XXVII | St. Austin, and Caesar Borgia, to be the same man. For 360 III, IV | Colours indefinable to the born-blind. He that should use the 361 III, VI | co-exist; and so it truly borrows that union from nature: 362 IV, III | handsome wife to in his bosom; yet who is bold enough 363 I, II | the principles on which he bottoms his reasonings, and by which 364 I, II | she hath inured them to bow their minds and submit their 365 IV, XVII | got some iron out of the bowels of the earth, should have 366 Read | one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham; and in an 367 III, IV | which often came in his way, bragged one day, That he now understood 368 III, IV | his art, and the statuary bragging that his was to be preferred, 369 III, VI | thereof two or three little branches coming down like sprigs 370 I, III | amongst the ancients, and left branded upon the records of history, 371 IV, XVII | force of his reason only in brandishing of syllogisms, will discover 372 IV, VI | motion. This the necessity of breathing has forced into our knowledge. 373 I, II | and when they were past breeding, the mothers themselves 374 II, XXVIII| set them, and nothing that breeds such mischiefs and confusion, 375 IV, XIX | that he might bring his brethren out of Egypt: and yet he 376 III, X | that is in them, but the briars and thorns, and the obscurity 377 II, XXI | falling into the water, (a bridge breaking under him), has 378 I, III | materials, he should build him bridges or houses,—which some people 379 II, XVIII | for method’s sake, though briefly, give an account of some 380 IV, XI | exterior cause, and the brisk acting of some objects without 381 III, VI | spring, and others by hogs’ bristles. Are any or all of these 382 II, XXIII | perceive the colour and brittleness of charcoal, whereby we 383 II, XXIII | what gave support to the broad-backed tortoise, replied—something, 384 II, XI | animals which have a numerous brood of young ones at once, appear 385 III, VI | down like sprigs of Spanish broom, long great legs, with feet 386 II, XXVII | punish one twin for what his brother-twin did, whereof he knew nothing, 387 III, VI | feathers and hair, of a dark brown colour, without wings, but 388 II, XXVII | the satisfaction of their brutal inclinations. But yet I 389 II, XXI | other side, the epicure buckles to study, when shame, or 390 II, XIII | original notions of things, he builds upon floating and uncertain 391 I, II | become zealous votaries to bulls and monkeys, and contend 392 III, V | coherence; and so under one term bundle together a great variety 393 II, XXVIII| one man. A citizen, or a burgher, is one who has a right 394 I, II | professing Christianity, to bury their children alive without 395 IV, XIX | sent with. Moses saw the bush burn without being consumed, 396 II, XVII | think of the capacity of a bushel without corn, or the hollow 397 II, XIII | their eyes and touch, (the busiest of all our senses,) so filled 398 III, VII | own.” The first of these buts intimates a supposition 399 I, III | shore it up with props and buttresses, leaning on borrowed or 400 III, X | for learning. Whether any by-interests of these professions have 401 II, IX | custom, have got the use of a by-word, do almost in every sentence 402 IV, XIX | sake, but for some other bye-end. For the evidence that any 403 I, II | supreme Lawgiver, all the bystanders, yea, even the governors 404 I, II | Sunt enim in ipsa mente caelitus descriptae, nullisque traditionibus, 405 IV, X | rationem putet inesse, in caelo mundoque non putet? Aut 406 III, VI | i.e. ill-shaped. He was of Caen.” (Menagiana, 278, 430.) 407 I, III | Literis ex Paraquaria, de Caiguarum Conversione, has these words: 408 II, X | of a fever in a few days calcine all those images to dust 409 II, XIV | the reformation of their calendar by Julius Caesar, or many 410 II, XXVIII| the grandfather of such a calf, or that two pigeons are 411 I, II | the daily labours of their callings; nor be at quiet in their 412 II, XXXIII| passion, but in the steady calm course of his life. That 413 II, XIV | thoughts the duration of that candle-light last night, as I can the 414 Read | his expressions, and the candour that belongs to his order, 415 II, XIV | a real succession. Let a cannon-bullet pass through a room, and 416 I, II | worship. The saints who are canonized amongst the Turks, lead 417 IV, III | thoughts to this little canton—I mean this system of our 418 II, XXVIII| laws of some governments, a capital crime. In this case, when 419 IV, XVI | thousand odd reasons, or capricios, men’s minds are acted by, ( 420 II, XXV | servant, master, possessor, captain, superior, inferior, bigger, 421 II, XX | pleasure of music; pain from captious uninstructive wrangling, 422 IV, XX | enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Tell a 423 II, XXXIII| real truth. That which thus captivates their reasons, and leads 424 I, II | they got on their female captives, whom they kept as concubines 425 II, XXVII | there is no person: and a carcass may be a person, as well 426 Ded | MONTGOMERY,~BARRON HERBERT OF CARDIFF,~LORD ROSS, OF KENDAL, PAR, 427 III, II | how imperfectly soever or carelessly those ideas are collected 428 I, II | their own children. The Caribbees were wont to geld their 429 III, V | not; yet, in respect of carnal knowledge, they are both 430 IV, X | that darling invention, cashier, or at least endeavour to 431 II, I | what have a tang of the cask, and manifestly derive their 432 II, XXV | and chick between the two cassiowaries in St. James’s Park; though 433 III, VI | in those species called cassiowary and querechinchio; and by 434 III, VI | others.~34. Instance in Cassowaries. Were I to talk with any 435 III, XI | the shape of a horse or cassowary will be but rudely and imperfectly 436 III, VI | told that the name of it is cassuaris, I may then use that word 437 IV, IV | truth, all certainty. Such castles in the air will be as strongholds 438 Read | obscurity in my expressions casts a cloud over it, and these 439 II, XXIII | the assistance of glasses (casually at first lighted on) has 440 I, II | has ventured yet to give a catalogue of them, they cannot blame 441 IV, XVII | reasoning more adapted to catch and entangle the mind, than 442 Read | it has been writ in, by catches, and many long intervals 443 IV, XX | any one should a little catechise the greatest part of the 444 I, II | 3. And Veritates nostrae catholicae, quae tanquam indubia Dei 445 IV, XVII | tracks lead this sort of cattle, (as an observing Roman 446 II, XXVIII| occasions of time, place, and causality of comparing or referring 447 III, IX | purpose set themselves to cavil, seldom mistake, in any 448 IV, VII | Schools, to stop the mouths of cavillers, whom any one is excused 449 III, IV | idea of the relish of that celebrated delicious fruit. So far 450 IV, XIX | the sun, as to examine the celestial ray by our dim candle, reason.~ 451 II, X | tumbled out of their dark cells into open daylight, by turbulent 452 II, XI | incoherent ideas have been cemented together so powerfully, 453 II, XXXIII| or much, in his mind, so cements those two ideas together, 454 Read | lost, have published their censures of my Essay, with this honour 455 IV, XVIII | extravagant opinions and ceremonies that are to be found in 456 II, XXV | instance, the contract and ceremony of marriage with Sempronia 457 I, II | Independentia. 3. Universalitas. 4. Certitudo. 5. Necessitas, i.e. as 458 II, XXI | in his power, the stop or cessation of that motion follows not 459 II, XXI | consists. He that has his chains knocked off, and the prison 460 II, XI | being observed to-day in chalk or snow, which the mind 461 II, XXVIII| under relation. Thus the challenging and fighting with a man, 462 III, XI | himself), I shall think him a champion for knowledge, truth, and 463 II, XXXIII| applaud themselves as zealous champions for truth, when indeed they 464 III, X | species, as is plain in chance-medley, manslaughter, murder, parricide, & 465 II, XVII | yet to come, and pass the channel of the river where he stood: 466 II, XIV | can have an idea of the chaos, or angels, being created 467 II, XXVII | possession; and one of his chaplains, who lived long afterwards 468 II, XXIX | confusion ideas are at any time chargeable with, we must consider, 469 II, XXVI | below, a mile distant from Charing-cross, in England, and in London. 470 III, IX | it would become us to be charitable one to another in our interpretations 471 III, X | constant and familiar use, they charm men into notions far remote 472 II, XXI | us. Habits have powerful charms, and put so strong attractions 473 II, XIII | body as if it were mega chasma, a distance as wide as any 474 III, VI | corporeal world, we see no chasms or gaps. All quite down 475 I, II | piety, gratitude, equity, chastity? Or where is that universal 476 II, XXI | glass of wine, or the idle chat of a soaking club. It is 477 III, X | and so indeed are perfect cheats: and therefore, however 478 I, II | conscience will be urged as checking us for such breaches, and 479 II, XXI | determined to any pursuit of good cheer, poignant sauces, delicious 480 II, XXI | satisfy all men’s hunger with cheese or lobsters; which, though 481 II, XIII | determined only within that chequered piece of wood, it would 482 I, II | Parents, preserve and cherish your children.” When, therefore, 483 IV, III | endowments and perfections of cherubim and seraphim, and infinite 484 II, XIII | designation of the place of each chess-man being determined only within 485 II, XIII | determines the place of the chessmen; and the distance from the 486 II, XXV | the relation of dam and chick between the two cassiowaries 487 II, XXVII | that people use to make to chickens when they call them. I set 488 I, II | mothers, if they die in childbirth; or despatch them, if a 489 Int | unpardonable, as well as childish peevishness, if we undervalue 490 II, XXV | through custom, do so readily chime and answer one another in 491 I, II | beyond the smoke of their own chimneys. Where is that practical 492 II, XXI | the various and contrary choices that men make in the world 493 I, III | gods: or, as the Abbe de Choisy more judiciously remarks 494 IV, V | humours, melancholy and choler, would perhaps have little 495 II, XXI | that odd disease called chorea sancti viti), but he is 496 IV, XX | which teach one thing in Christendom and another in Turkey? Or 497 I, II | Mingrelians, a people professing Christianity, to bury their children 498 II, XIV | adds no small difficulty to chronology, that the exact lengths 499 II, XXVII | bien faire; and made the chuck four or five times that 500 I, II | their particular schools or churches; a plain evidence that there