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1001 II, XXXIII| imputing the pain they endured at school to their books 1002 I, II | eating abundance of their enemies. They have not so much as 1003 Ded | of the great and growing engagements it has to your lordship. 1004 II, XXI | determining the will, and engaging us in action. This is standing 1005 II, IV | violent compression of the engine that squeezed it.~5. On 1006 II, XXVII | perhaps, amiss to relieve or enliven a busy scene sometimes with 1007 I, I | primary notions, koinai ennoiai, characters, as it were 1008 II, XIV | Methusalem’s life was longer than Enoch’s. And if the common reckoning 1009 I, II | others avoid.~9. Instances of enormities practised without remorse. 1010 I, III | power of assent, by lazily enslaving their minds to the dictates 1011 I, III | follow any authority in the ensuing Discourse. Truth has been 1012 IV, XVII | if he will pursue it, it entangles him the more, and engages 1013 III, IV | trial. For this simple idea, entering by the touch as well as 1014 II, XXI | that it will be possibly entertained as a paradox, if it be said, 1015 IV, XVI | the mind such different entertainments, as we call belief, conjecture, 1016 IV, XIX | and depending on him?~6. Enthusiastic impulse. Their minds being 1017 III, IV | language, that it was “actus entis in potentia quatenus in 1018 III, VI | are those qualities which entitle them to receive their names. 1019 III, VI | reckoned of that sort, nor be entitled to that name. Should there 1020 I, II | least some of these five he enumerates, viz. “Do as thou wouldst 1021 III, IV | when, to avoid unpleasant enumerations, men would comprehend both 1022 II, XXIII | body were it on all sides environed by that fluid, and touched 1023 I, III | the King of France’s late envoy thither, who gives no better 1024 I, II | monumenta extruunt amplissima, eosque contingere ac sepelire maximae 1025 IV, XX | manifest reasons, but do either epechein, suspend their assent, or 1026 II, XXI | on the other side, the epicure buckles to study, when shame, 1027 III, X | soul of the world, and the Epicureans their endeavour towards 1028 Read | EPISTLE TO THE READER~I HAVE put 1029 II, III | salt are almost all the epithets we have to denominate that 1030 Read | have been told that a short Epitome of this Treatise, which 1031 II, XV | existence, we see in Horace, Epod. xvi. ferro duravit secula. 1032 IV, III | two or more numbers, their equalities or proportions; that the 1033 IV, XVII | strength of judgment, few have equalled; and who, in this very invention 1034 II, XIV | flood constantly in the equator, and so equally dispersed 1035 IV, VII | rectangle, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenon; but all and 1036 IV, IV | and call it, if he please, equilaterum or trapezium, or anything 1037 IV, VIII | fetiche,” &c. These all being equivalent to this proposition, viz. 1038 I, III | will assist me, I hope to erect it on such a basis that 1039 IV, III | openly to avow that he has espoused a falsehood, and received 1040 II, XXXIII| quick-sighted enough to espy in another, and will by 1041 II, X | imitate, or which any repeated essays can bring them nearer to. 1042 III, VI | nominal species, a real essense is supposed. To avoid this 1043 I, II | quod, nec foeminarum unquam esset, nec puerorum, sed tantummodo 1044 IV, XX | much as think upon their estates, who have reason to fear 1045 II, XXVII | Marinnan. The Prince, A qui estes-vous? The Parrot, A un Portugais. 1046 III, X | s parts and learning are estimated by their skill in disputing. 1047 II, XXII | first invented printing or etching, had an idea of it in his 1048 IV, XX | reply, Non persuadebis, etiamsi persuaseris; though I cannot 1049 I, II | publicitus apprime commendari, eum esse hominem sanctum, divinum 1050 IV, XVII | only to imitation, Non quo eundum est, sed quo itur. But I 1051 I, III | body is changed? Whether Euphorbus and Pythagoras, having had 1052 II, XIII | report the story of Nisus and Euryalus, it would be very improper 1053 IV, XX | Manifest probabilities may be evaded, and the assent withheld, 1054 I, I | proves them not innate. This evasion therefore of general assent 1055 IV, XVI | where such supernatural events are suitable to ends aimed 1056 II, XXI | the greatest allowed, even ever-lasting unspeakable, good, which 1057 IV, XVIII | principles of reason have not evidenced a proposition to be certainly 1058 II, XIV | serve for a measure; though exacter search has since discovered 1059 III, XI | them their terms with the exactest choice and fitness. This 1060 II, II | in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, 1061 IV, XVI | your sentiments be one that examines before he assents, you must 1062 I, III | thoughts and notions had not exceeded those brutish ones of the 1063 IV, VI | the being it has, and the excellences of it, to its neighbours; 1064 II, XXXIII| that chamber he could dance excellently well, yet it was only whilst 1065 IV, XVI | ranks of intelligent beings, excelling us in several degrees of 1066 IV, IV | dislikeness to it: and such, excepting those of substances, are 1067 II, IX | but of the ideas that are excited in him by them.~10. How, 1068 II, VII | expansion of Matter, and makes excursions into that incomprehensible 1069 II, XXI | I shall be thought more excusable for having then done so, 1070 II, XXI | his understanding, yet it excuses him not; because, by a too 1071 II, XXVII | his conscience accusing or excusing him.~23. Consciousness alone 1072 III, VI | cast him, and he had been executed, as a thing not to be allowed 1073 II, XXI | a power to suspend the execution and satisfaction of any 1074 IV, XII | mankind than the monuments of exemplary charity that have at so 1075 Int | wherein there was nothing exempt from its decisions, or that 1076 Read | in order to their being exerted are—he will I suppose find 1077 I, II | hominibus dum vivunt, magnos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel 1078 II, XXIII | ways to accommodate the exigences of this life. We have insight 1079 I, II | curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot 1080 II, XIII | it,—so as to say space is expanded and body extended. But in 1081 II, VII | capacious mind of man to expatiate in, which takes its flight 1082 II, XVII | where he stood: Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille 1083 Read | prints, and consequently expects men should read, that wherein 1084 III, X | acquired, found this a good expedient to cover their ignorance, 1085 II, XVIII | which is a very short and expedite way of conveying their thoughts 1086 IV, XX | and Latin, with no small expense of time and candle, and 1087 III, XI | sort of things, and are experienced in them. For, since it is 1088 II, I | and make use of its former experiences, reasonings, and contemplations, 1089 II, XXIII | attain it. And therefore experimenting and discovering in ourselves 1090 IV, XX | of their reports in the explanation of things; nor be prevailed 1091 III, XI | cannot be without frequent explanations, demands, and other the 1092 II, XXIII | consequences impossible to be explicated or made in our apprehensions 1093 I, I | these principles, but not an explicit, before this first hearing ( 1094 IV, IV | all back again to what was exploded just now: this is to place 1095 IV, VI | of this our little globe exposes them to. The qualities observed 1096 IV, VII | them.~Maxims of use in the exposition of what has been discovered, 1097 III, X | reads, till he consults an expositor, or goes to counsel; who, 1098 III, X | one, because in truth it expressly contains nothing but the 1099 II, XIII | without the removing or expulsion of anything that was there. 1100 II, XXI | come out of the body? the expulsive faculty. What moved? the 1101 II, XXIII | is only in the several extents and degrees of their knowledge, 1102 II, XXI | pain, that a little of it extinguishes all our pleasures. A little 1103 II, XIII | extension is to have partes extra partes, is to say only, 1104 II, XI | examine and learn how the mind extracts, denominates, compares, 1105 IV, XIX | immediate revelation from God, extraordinarily operating on our minds, 1106 IV, XIX | give himself up to all the extravagances of delusion and error must 1107 IV, XVII | which reason cannot well extricate itself out of.~11. III. 1108 I, II | vel templa vel monumenta extruunt amplissima, eosque contingere 1109 II, IX | cover our eyes with our eyelids, without perceiving that 1110 IV, III | What are the particular fabrics of the great masses of matter 1111 III, XI | Romans, than we have of the faces of the tailors who made 1112 IV, XX | testimonies. Quod volumus, facile credimus; what suits our 1113 II, XVII | extension that it rather facilitates and enlarges it. For so 1114 I, II | i.e. as he explains it, faciunt ad hominis conservationem. 1115 IV, XVI | propositions about particular facts, being agreeable to our 1116 II, XXIX | freshness, and are, as it were, faded or tarnished by time, so 1117 II, X | in our minds are laid in fading colours; and if not sometimes 1118 II, XXVII | Oui, moi; et je scai bien faire; and made the chuck four 1119 I, II | none, I think, can have a fairer pretence to be innate than 1120 I, I | impressions, should appear fairest and clearest in those persons 1121 I, III | Such borrowed wealth, like fairy money, though it were gold 1122 II, XXVII | Portugais. The Prince, Que fais-tu la? Parrot, Je garde les 1123 IV, IV | They are in the hands of a faithful Creator and a bountiful 1124 III, X | together, will talk very fallaciously. 4. He that gives the name 1125 I, I | to the use of reason is falsely assigned as the time of 1126 I, I | unprejudiced readers of the falseness of this supposition, if 1127 II, XXVIII| dislike and ill opinion of his familiars, and those he converses 1128 II, XXV | The same may be said of a family, a tune, &c.; for there 1129 II, XI | shall find a distracted man fancying himself a king, with a right 1130 II, XXX | calls liberality. But this fantasticalness relates more to propriety 1131 II, XXI | agreeable and delicious fare to some, are to others extremely 1132 III, V | they would but look beyond fashionable sounds, and observe what 1133 II, XXI | and makes the will often fasten on the worse side, lies 1134 IV, XX | unbiassed understandings, and fastened by degrees, are at last ( 1135 II, XXV | grandfather, grandson, father-in-law, son-in-law, husband, friend, 1136 II, XXIII | ancient and most learned Fathers of the church seemed to 1137 IV, XX | repent; or with the other, Fatiez penitence, do penance.~12. 1138 IV, XIX | is nothing but an ignis fatuus, that leads them constantly 1139 II, XI | of their several ways of faultering would no doubt discover. 1140 I, II | living, are yet so little favourable to the information of their 1141 II, VII | sensation. Which is wisely and favourably so ordered by nature, that 1142 III, III | yet, granting this also feasible, (which I think is not), 1143 II, XXI | pain, heightened by our feeble passionate nature, most 1144 I, I | knows, that the nurse that feeds it is neither the cat it 1145 II, XIII | helps not our ignorance to feign a knowledge where we have 1146 Read | freely of those who with a feigned modesty condemn as useless 1147 II, XVII | infinite, than the country fellow had of the water which was 1148 II, XXVIII| cannot employ it against any fellow-citizens any further than the law 1149 I, II | who acts fairly with his fellow-highwayman, and at the same time plunders 1150 III, I | under a necessity to have fellowship with those of his own kind, 1151 III, VI | beards, and others where the females have. If it be asked whether 1152 II, XXXIII| discreet people minded and fenced against, yet I am apt to 1153 II, XV | see in Horace, Epod. xvi. ferro duravit secula. But, be 1154 IV, XVII | artificial and cumbersome fetters of several syllogisms, that 1155 III, XI | countryman understand what feuillemorte colour signifies, it may 1156 I, II | the greatest part of men, fewest people have had the impudence 1157 II, XIII | thing made up of several fibres. Would he thereby be enabled 1158 II, XXXI | a real idea, (and not a fiction of the mind, which has no 1159 III, VI | creatures, as it is said, (sit fides penes authorem, but there 1160 IV, XVI | being generally the most fierce and firm in their tenets, 1161 IV, XIII | and seven are less than fifteen; if he will consider and 1162 I, II | monkeys, and contend too, fight, and die in defence of their 1163 II, XXVIII| Thus the challenging and fighting with a man, as it is a certain 1164 II, XVII | ubiquity; and, I think, more figuratively to his power, wisdom, and 1165 III, IX | liquor passed through the filaments of the nerves. The debate 1166 II, XVIII | v.g. coltshire, drilling, filtration, cohobation, are words standing 1167 IV, XVII | cause, and particularly the final cause. But the consideration 1168 III, X | which depend mostly on the fineness and niceties of words, it 1169 IV, XX | principles. The first and firmest ground of probability is 1170 IV, III | should be that Eternal first-thinking Being. What certainty of 1171 III, III | as an unicorn, or such a fish as a mermaid; yet, supposing 1172 III, VI | scrupulous are allowed them on fish-days. There are animals so near 1173 IV, XVII | Every one knows what best fits his own sight; but let him 1174 Ded | LORD ROSS, OF KENDAL, PAR, FITZHUGH, MARMION, ST. QUINTIN, AND 1175 II, XXXIII| not observed some man to flag at the appearance, or in 1176 II, X | of all its ideas, and the flames of a fever in a few days 1177 IV, XIX | natural ways of knowledge, so flatters many men’s laziness, ignorance, 1178 I, III | makes it fond of the one and flee the other? Or does the mind 1179 II, XXIV | army, a swarm, a city, a fleet; each of which every one 1180 IV, III | disputed; nay, ships built, and fleets sent out, would never have 1181 II, XXVI | is but a little one to a Fleming; they two having, from the 1182 IV, VII | calls man, whereof white or flesh-colour in England being one, the 1183 II, XIV | take with it any limb, or fleshy parts of a man, it is as 1184 II, IV | inform him. Let him put a flint or a football between his 1185 III, VI | knocks, and beats it with flints, to see what was discoverable 1186 II, IV | have been told, was made at Florence, with a hollow globe of 1187 IV, XVII | that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses. 1188 IV, XVII | fallacy hid in a rhetorical flourish, or cunningly wrapt up in 1189 IV, XII | short of those of the most flourishing and polite nations. So that 1190 IV, VI | and how those qualities flowed from thence, we could, by 1191 I, II | profitable. Hence naturally flows the great variety of opinions 1192 IV, VI | operations of those invisible fluids they are encompassed with, 1193 IV, III | themselves, whilst their thoughts flutter about, or stick only in 1194 I, II | praecipuum; eo quod, nec foeminarum unquam esset, nec puerorum, 1195 I, II | of all children and young folk; and custom, a greater power 1196 IV, XVIII | but stand amazed at their follies, and judge them so far from 1197 Read | Second Edition I added as followeth:—~The bookseller will not 1198 IV, XIX | that may show it to be a fondling of our own, but will by 1199 Read | it, that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is 1200 III, VI | enough to be admitted to the font or no? As I have been told 1201 II, XXI | be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery 1202 II, XXI | true liberty, madmen and fools are the only freemen: but 1203 II, XXI | are proposed, though mere forbearances, requiring as much the determination 1204 II, XXXII | such an action of a man who forbears to afford himself such meat, 1205 II, XXVIII| the action commanded or forbidden by God, I call it good or 1206 II, XXI | preference is to be given? I have forborne to mention anything of the 1207 II, XXI | operate for the most part forcibly on the will, and turn the 1208 IV, XVII | under consideration; and, forcing it upon some remote difficulty, 1209 II, XXI | it for which they should forego a present enjoyment. But 1210 III, IV | touched the head, and then the forehead, eyes, nose, &c., as his 1211 III, IV | rackets against some men’s foreheads, whilst they passed by others. 1212 IV, III | difficulties, it is not easy to foretell. Confident I am, that, if 1213 II, I | once out of sight, are gone forever, and leave no memory of 1214 III, VIII | those few that the schools forged, and put into the mouths 1215 IV, X | doubt not but I shall be forgiven by my reader if I go over 1216 II, XXVII | oblivion separates what is thus forgotten from the person, but not 1217 I, II | them innate impressions in foro interiori descriptae. For 1218 I, II | And I think they equally forsake the truth who, running into 1219 IV, III | dissolving of silver in aqua fortis, and gold in aqua regia, 1220 IV, V | ideas, as of a man, vitriol, fortitude, glory, we usually put the 1221 III, X | holes of foxes, than the fortresses of fair warriors: which, 1222 IV, XX | discourse; or that a blind fortuitous concourse of atoms, not 1223 I, II | contingere ac sepelire maximae fortunae ducunt loco. Audivimus haec 1224 IV, XVII | ones we have already. The forty-seventh proposition of the first 1225 II, IX | colder or warmer, clean or foul water, as it happens to 1226 IV, XII | charge been raised by the founders of hospitals and almshouses. 1227 IV, VI | is, to say a centaur is four-footed. But if malleableness make 1228 IV, VIII | body of a certain figure, four-legged, with sense, motion, ambling, 1229 IV, XVII | together, there are but about fourteen wherein one may be sure 1230 IV, XIII | idea of an intelligent, but frail and weak being, made by 1231 III, IX | was subject to all the frailties and inconveniences of human 1232 Read | but waiving that, I shall frankly avow that I have sometimes 1233 II, XI | in one particular be as frantic as any in Bedlam; if either 1234 I, II | that those that live by fraud or rapine have innate principles 1235 II, XXV | is said to be whiter than free-stone.~2. Ideas of relations without 1236 II, XXI | think improperly) called free-will. For, during this suspension 1237 II, XXI | madmen and fools are the only freemen: but yet, I think, nobody 1238 II, X | like marble, in others like freestone, and in others little better 1239 II, XXII | countryman says the cold freezes water, though the word freezing 1240 IV, XV | of observations, as the frequency and constancy of experience 1241 I, I | made upon their senses the frequentest and strongest impressions. 1242 II, XXIX | lost any of their first freshness, and are, as it were, faded 1243 II, XXXIII| afterwards bring with it those frightful ideas, and they shall be 1244 III, X | or tossing words to and fro;—whether it would not be 1245 III, XI | has just such a sort of frontispiece; or can join itself to, 1246 IV, XVI | it, should affirm that it froze in England the last winter, 1247 III, VI | at night in a great part frozen in the morning, and, not 1248 III, VI | having their minds set upon fruitless inquiries after “substantial 1249 II, XXI | palate; and you will as fruitlessly endeavour to delight all 1250 III, VI | one from another, as to frustrate the expectation and labour 1251 I, II | concubitu, si proles secuta fuerit, sancta similiter habetur. 1252 II, XVII | I may say, a growing or fugitive idea, still in a boundless 1253 II, VII | of Him with whom there is fullness of joy, and at whose right 1254 II, XXI | as the body,-”With him is fulness of joy, and pleasure for 1255 IV, X | parts: yet this being so fundamental a truth, and of that consequence, 1256 II, XI | perches, we frame that of a furlong.~7. Brutes compound but 1257 IV, III | knowledge: and what sorts of furniture and inhabitants those mansions 1258 II, XVI | marks of one number: v. g.~Nonillions Octillions Septillions 1259 IV, XIX | assent are the vouchers and gage of its probability to us; 1260 I, I | be proposed in order to gaining assent, when, by being in 1261 IV, XX | men cannot always openly gainsay or resist the force of manifest 1262 IV, XVIII | one, or ever convince a gainsayer who makes use of the same 1263 II, XI | as if he had tasted only gall. Nor does it make any more 1264 II, XXXIII| are thus united, the whole gang, always inseparable, show 1265 II, XVI | for wherever this fails, a gap is made, the chain breaks, 1266 I, II | to fat and eat them. And Garcilasso de la Vega tells us of a 1267 II, XXVII | Que fais-tu la? Parrot, Je garde les poulles. The Prince 1268 II, XXVII | laughed, and said, Vous gardez les poulles? The Parrot 1269 I, III | addition to his stock who gathers them. Such borrowed wealth, 1270 II, XXI | itself, though it likes not a gaudy dress, yet, when it appears 1271 III, VI | Strasburg, from that which a gazing countryman has of it, who 1272 I, II | The Caribbees were wont to geld their children, on purpose 1273 III, VII | after another, of cases and genders, moods and tenses, gerunds 1274 I, III | in all countries. For the generality of the acknowledging of 1275 IV, III | the advantages some men’s generous pains have this way brought 1276 I, III | these words: Reperi eam gentem nullum nomen habere quod 1277 I, III | evidently the case of all Gentilism. Nor hath even amongst Jews, 1278 IV, XX | those who call themselves gentlemen, That, however they may 1279 IV, XVII | of ideas. Tell a country gentlewoman that the wind is south-west, 1280 IV, XX | should be skilled in the geography of the country. Nor is it 1281 III, VII | genders, moods and tenses, gerunds and supines: in these and 1282 IV, XIX | inspirations of the Holy Ghost? He can transform himself 1283 IV, XIX | them whom he was sent to. Gideon was sent by an angel to 1284 III, X | defects of it had made it; a gift which the illiterate had 1285 IV, XII | bodies, we must be content to glean what we can from particular 1286 IV, XX | such principles, go down glibly, and are easily digested. 1287 II, I | me not to have the least glimmering of any ideas which it doth 1288 III, VI | the mountains, lights on a glittering substance which pleases 1289 IV, XII | occasion to admire, revere, and glorify their Author: and, if rightly 1290 II, X | may communicate to those glorious spirits, his immediate attendants, 1291 IV, XIX | may as naturally take a glow-worm to assist us to discover 1292 IV, XI | pleases to try whether the glowing heat of a glass furnace 1293 III, III | an oval as a sheep from a goat; and rain is as essentially 1294 III, VI | can distinguish sheep and goats by their real essences, 1295 III, VI | gold, and that a silver goblet, only by the different figures 1296 II, XXXIII| An instance. The ideas of goblins and sprites have really 1297 IV, X | even his eternal power and Godhead.” Though our own being furnishes 1298 II, IV | a body as water. For the golden globe thus filled, being 1299 I, II | they can suppose an innate Gospel too. I would not here be 1300 III, XI | own ways of talking, and gossipings not be robbed of their ancient 1301 II, XXI | by a violent fit of the gout in his limbs, finds a doziness 1302 I, II | bystanders, yea, even the governors and rulers of the people, 1303 III, XI | words easily translated by gown, coat, and cloak; but we 1304 III, VI | in a continuous series or gradation. It is not impossible to 1305 IV, XIV | requisite in a long train of gradations, or impatient of delay, 1306 III, VI | perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards: 1307 III, X | the right construction of grammatical rules, or the harmony of 1308 I, III | the dark and doubt in so grand a concernment; and also, 1309 II, XXV | brother, son, grandfather, grandson, father-in-law, son-in-law, 1310 III, III | ensigns. Thus, that which was grass to-day is to-morrow the 1311 Read | civilly of me; which I must gratefully acknowledge he has done 1312 II, X | seemed to be as lasting as if graved in marble.~6. Constantly 1313 I, III | purpose should characters be graven on the mind by the finger 1314 Read | the moral rectitude and gravity of their actions, and accordingly 1315 II, XX | pleasure; we hate, fear, and grieve, only in respect of pain 1316 II, XXI | would with reason prefer the griping of an hungry belly to those 1317 II, VIII | sometimes of acute pains or gripings in us. That these ideas 1318 II, I | discovery of anything, and the groundwork whereon to build all those 1319 IV, X | but 100,000th part of a gry, will operate no otherwise 1320 III, X | absurd doctrines, as to guard them round about with legions 1321 IV, XIX | they are under the peculiar guidance of heaven in their actions 1322 IV, XX | current opinions, and licensed guides of every country sufficient 1323 III, IX | pulling the trigger of the gun with which the murder is 1324 II, XXI | subservient) may add a new gusto, able to make us swallow 1325 III, IV | a man who was blind by a gutta serena, he would thereby 1326 I, II | opinions. Dum solos credit habendos esse deos, quos ipse colit. 1327 I, II | libertatem quandam effrenem habent, domos quos volunt intrandi, 1328 I, III | eam gentem nullum nomen habere quod Deum, et hominis animam 1329 I, II | fuerit, sancta similiter habetur. His ergo hominibus dum 1330 II, XIV | light and heat to all the habitable parts of the earth, in days 1331 III, X | dispossess a vagrant of his habitation who has no settled abode. 1332 II, XXVII | bodies of beasts, as fit habitations, with organs suited to the 1333 IV, III | which may show us what habitude of agreement or disagreement 1334 I, II | fortunae ducunt loco. Audivimus haec dicta et dicenda per interpretem 1335 II, VIII | are smaller than peas or hail-stones;—let us suppose at present 1336 II, XVI | numbers, they would show the hairs of their head, to express 1337 II, XXIX | first division into two halves does. I must confess, for 1338 III, VI | will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. What we 1339 I, II | praemium vel paenam post hanc vitam transactam. Though 1340 III, X | sciences as they have been handled in the schools, have given 1341 IV, XVIII | always have this objection hanging to it, viz. that we cannot 1342 IV, X | acted only by that blind haphazard; I shall leave with him 1343 I, III | improbability of any tenet;—it happening in controversial discourses 1344 III, X | oratory may render them in harangues and popular addresses, they 1345 I, II | and error? Who is there hardy enough to contend with the 1346 Read | and then I shall not be harmed or offended, whatever be 1347 II, XXI | if, besides accidental harms, we add the fantastical 1348 IV, V | but what as much concerns harpies and centaurs, as men and 1349 IV, IV | demonstrations of Euclid. That an harpy is not a centaur is by this 1350 | hast 1351 II, XIV | they can neither delay nor hasten.~10. Real succession in 1352 II, XI | in the understanding; or hastiness and precipitancy, natural 1353 II, XXV | out of which the other was hatched, I have a clear idea of 1354 III, V | a man with a sword or a hatchet are looked on as no distinct 1355 II, XX | respect of pleasure; we hate, fear, and grieve, only 1356 II, XXXIII| the one as the other. Thus hatreds are often begotten from 1357 Read | now it is done. He that hawks at larks and sparrows has 1358 IV, XI | of hunger, thirst, or the headache, without any pain at all; 1359 II, XXI | or acquired habits have heaped up, take the will in their 1360 II, XXIII | the bonds that tie these heaps of loose little bodies together 1361 III, X | excite in the mind of the hearers, they cannot make known 1362 IV, XV | assent, men have reason to be Heathens in Japan, Mahometans in 1363 II, XIV | out by the motion of those heavenly bodies, they were apt to 1364 III, VII | opposite significations. In the Hebrew tongue there is a particle 1365 II, I | to it, and with attention heed all the parts of it. The 1366 II, XIV | commonly choose whether he will heedfully observe and consider them.~ 1367 II, X | notice of: the mind, either heedless, as in children, or otherwise 1368 Read | mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it 1369 III, V | because of the different heinousness of the crime, and the distinct 1370 II, XXI | most men, like spendthrift heirs, are apt to judge a little 1371 I, II | prescribed these rules; nor the hell that he has ordained for 1372 IV, III | demonstrate something of an heptagon, should, in the diagram 1373 II, I | distinct persons as Castor and Hercules, or as Socrates and Plato 1374 IV, III | as when it was declared heresy to hold there were any. 1375 III, VI | Englishmen do of swans or herons, which are specific names, 1376 | hers 1377 IV, VII | that this proposition, “A hill is higher than a valley,” 1378 II, XXI | called compulsion; when the hindering or stopping any action is 1379 III, V | are not only the greatest hindrances of true knowledge, but are 1380 II, XXI | to suspend. This is the hinge on which turns the liberty 1381 II, XX | good and evil, are the hinges on which our passions turn. 1382 IV, III | is what by a transient hint in another place I have 1383 IV, VI | from wary observation, and hints well laid together, often 1384 I, III | of Voyages, vol. i., and Historia Cultus Sinensium. And perhaps, 1385 IV, XIII | help seeing it white and hoary, if he will look abroad. 1386 I, II | requires it of us. But if a Hobbist be asked why? he will answer:— 1387 III, X | the dens of robbers, or holes of foxes, than the fortresses 1388 I, III | to secure to himself the homage and veneration due from 1389 I, II | similiter habetur. His ergo hominibus dum vivunt, magnos exhibent 1390 I, II | deputant. Ejusmodi vero genus hominum libertatem quandam effrenem 1391 II, XXVIII| natura praestantius, quam honestatem, quam laudem, quam dignitatem, 1392 I, II | vivunt, magnos exhibent honores; mortuis vero vel templa 1393 IV, XVII | and this the judicious Hooker encourages me to say, who 1394 II, XXIII | there see what conceivable hoops, what bond he can imagine 1395 III, V | weight; and the Latin names, hora, pes, libra, are without 1396 II, XV | of existence, we see in Horace, Epod. xvi. ferro duravit 1397 Int | once discovered, and the horizon found which sets the bounds 1398 III, IX | that men are engaged so hotly in, I shall perhaps have 1399 I, III | those brutish ones of the Hottentots that inhabit there. And 1400 II, XXIII | water, or the sands of an hour-glass), come in a few moments 1401 II, XIV | would have passed from one hour-line to another whilst that flame 1402 II, XXIII | and the characters of the hour-plate, and thereby at a distance 1403 II, XIX | feeling the shaking of the house, which are sensible enough 1404 II, XXXIII| this remarkable piece of household stuff had so mixed itself 1405 II, II | other qualities in bodies, howsoever constituted, whereby they 1406 II, XXI | therefore either side be huddled up in haste, and several 1407 III, V | all, is mixed with those huffing opinions they are swelled 1408 IV, III | we shall then discover a huge abyss of ignorance. What 1409 III, VIII | a mode, and its concrete humanus, not homo. ~ 1410 Ded | LORD,~Your Lordship’s most humble and most obedient servant,~ 1411 III, VI | with limitation: nor, as I humbly conceive, do we, between 1412 IV, V | right, of obstructions and humours, melancholy and choler, 1413 II, XXI | food to life: yet, till he hungers or thirsts after righteousness, 1414 IV, III | forget one before we have hunted out another; we may guess 1415 Read | lights on) not miss the hunter’s satisfaction; every moment 1416 II, XXI | hurries our thoughts, as a hurricane does our bodies, without 1417 II, XXI | sometimes a boisterous passion hurries our thoughts, as a hurricane 1418 IV, VII | their use not dangerous or hurtful, in the probation of such 1419 II, X | make us take notice of what hurts or advantages the body, 1420 IV, XX | vacancies that might be husbanded to this advantage of their 1421 I, I | seldom mentioned in the huts of Indians: much less are 1422 Read | such masters as the great Huygenius and the incomparable Mr. 1423 II, XXII | first framed the idea of hypocrisy, might have either taken 1424 IV, XII | know that the square of the hypothenuse in a right-angled triangle 1425 III, XI | clearer idea of apium or ibex, from a little print of 1426 I, II | language it is published in. Ibi (sc. prope Belbes in AEgypto) 1427 IV, IV | when they have barely an ideal existence in his mind, will 1428 I, III | knowledge of impossible est idem esse, et non esse, that 1429 III, V | that of a Latin and English idiom.~10. In mixed modes it is 1430 Int | a cure of scepticism and idleness. When we know our own strength, 1431 I, III | nulla sacra habet, nulla idola. These are instances of 1432 IV, XIX | dazzled with is nothing but an ignis fatuus, that leads them 1433 I, II | this case is the greatest ignominy. And if we look abroad to 1434 IV, IV | everywhere they do, to destroy ill-formed and mis-shaped productions. 1435 IV, XI | them, it cannot pass for an ill-grounded confidence: for I think 1436 Read | reader’s time in so idle or ill-natured an employment of mine, as 1437 II, XXI | altered to comply with his ill-ordered choice. If the neglect or 1438 II, XXI | able to make us swallow an ill-relished potion. In the latter of 1439 II, XXVII | rather rises from the names ill-used, than from any obscurity 1440 II, XVII | expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille Labitur, et labetur in omne 1441 II, XXI | darkness of the night, or illness of the weather, or want 1442 I, II | supremum numen. 2. Numen illud coli debere. 3. Virtutem 1443 I, II | nostro. Insuper sanctum illum, quem eo loco vidimus, publicitus 1444 IV, XIX | original or no. When he illuminates the mind with supernatural 1445 IV, XIX | mind by Him, and is not an illusion dropped in by some other 1446 III, XI | nothing but the fallacious and illusory use of obscure or deceitful 1447 II, XV | perhaps be of use for their illustration; and we may have the more 1448 II, XXXIII| sight of the operator: that image brought back with it the 1449 II, X | effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away. The pictures 1450 II, X | be a pattern for them to imitate, or which any repeated essays 1451 II, VII | infinite: and what a large and immense field doth extension alone 1452 II, XXIII | to me impossible.~21. God immoveable, because infinite. If it 1453 IV, XI | and the same ideas having immutably the same habitudes one to 1454 IV, VI | essence which nature regularly imparts to every individual of that 1455 IV, X | anywhere exist. They knock, impel, and resist one another, 1456 II, XXI | For so is motion in a body impelled by another; the continuation 1457 I, II | perpetually feel them strongly impelling us.~4. Moral rules need 1458 IV, III | ignorance conceal from us, in an impenetrable obscurity, almost the whole 1459 IV, XVII | of them in us, and much imperfecter yet of the operation of 1460 II, XXI | the pain of the rack, an impetuous uneasiness, as of love, 1461 IV, XVII | that case it is in vain to implore the help of reason, unless 1462 IV, III | than the name ordinarily imported, or he intended it should 1463 II, I | or some pain (the most importunate of all sensations), or some 1464 III, X | though men will not be so importunately dull as not to understand 1465 III, X | stands for some real being, imposes on himself, and mistakes 1466 IV, XVIII | themselves. Credo, quia impossibile est: I believe, because 1467 IV, X | any more absurdities and impossibilities in this hypothesis (however 1468 IV, III | inconsiderable, mean, and impotent a creature as he will find 1469 IV, XX | him, seems to me utterly impracticable, and as impossible as it 1470 I, II | original, were certainly the impress of God and nature upon their 1471 IV, XX | grossest absurdities and improbabilities, being but agreeable to 1472 II, I | how the mind, by degrees, improves in these; and advances to 1473 II, XXVIII| themselves with the hopes of impunity. But no man escapes the 1474 IV, XVII | such unjust and groundless imputations, I tell them, that I am 1475 II, XXVII | and accountable; owns and imputes to itself past actions, 1476 II, XXXIII| instances. Many children, imputing the pain they endured at 1477 III, VI | confused conceptions, and inaccurate ways of talking and thinking; 1478 II, XXXII | may be said to be true, inasmuch as they really are ideas 1479 I, II | assures us there are such inbred rules? Murders in duels, 1480 I, II | proposition, and fit to be incated on and received by those 1481 III, IX | obscurities and difficulties incident to words; methinks it would 1482 I, II | them; some things that they incline to and others that they 1483 II, IV | make a trial, with the air inclosed in a football. The experiment, 1484 IV, III | knowledge of the co-existence or inco-existence (if I may so say) of different 1485 II, XXIII | God in his own essence incognisable. For it is infinity, which, 1486 IV, XX | souls, who lay out all their incomes in provisions for the body, 1487 III, XI | demands, and other the like incommodious interruptions, where men 1488 Read | great Huygenius and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some others 1489 IV, III | knowledge is larger. As to the incompatibility or repugnancy to coexistence, 1490 IV, III | qualities result from, or are incompatible with, the same constitution 1491 IV, III | themselves: who, because of the inconceivableness of something they find in 1492 IV, XVII | perceive the weakness and inconclusiveness of a long artificial and 1493 III, XI | and so the congruity and incongruity of the things themselves 1494 IV, XVII | them see consequences or inconsequences in argumentation, I am not 1495 I, III | things; whilst the lazy and inconsiderate part of men, making far 1496 I, II | the impudence to deny or inconsideration to doubt of. If any can 1497 IV, III | necessary consequences, as incontestible as those in mathematics, 1498 IV, XI | which are convenient or inconvenient to us. For he that sees 1499 III, X | embryo in an egg before incubation, or a man in a swoon without 1500 II, XXXIII| yet let but a foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind 1501 IV, VIII | think, the offering and inculcating such propositions, in order