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501 Pre, Int, 5 | 5. How difficult and discouraging soever this attempt may 502 Pre, Int, 19 | stand for - in reading and discoursing, names being for the most 503 Text, 0, 59 | the stars, or any other discoveries in astronomy or nature.~ 504 Text, 0, 149| have our being." That the discovery of this great truth, which 505 Pre, Int, 11 | the species of brutes are discriminated from men, and it is that 506 Text, 0, 17 | ourselves any farther, in discussing this material substratum 507 Pre, Int, 20 | love, hatred, admiration, disdain, and the like, arise immediately 508 Text, 0, 134| thought any just ground of dislike to the principles and tenets 509 Text, 0, 63 | that the Author of nature display His overruling power in 510 Text, 0, 32 | working, which so evidently displays the goodness and wisdom 511 Text, 0, 52 | us proper sentiments, or dispositions to act in such a manner 512 Text, 0, 35 | handle for trifling and disputation.~ 513 Text, 0, 122| enter into a more particular dissertation on this subject, but only 514 Text, 0, 141| there is nothing more easily dissipated than such a being, which 515 Text, 0, 141| motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions which we hourly see befall 516 Pre, Int, 23 | difficult a thing it is to dissolve an union so early begun, 517 Text, 0, 141| not liable to be broken or dissolved by the ordinary laws of 518 Pre, Int, 8 | perceived by sense that which distinguishes them one from another, and 519 Text, 0, 143| these have grown infinite distractions and disputes amongst the 520 Text, 0, 88 | that we see philosophers distrust their senses, and doubt 521 Text, 0, 51 | manner of alteration or disturbance from the admission of our 522 Pre, Int, 1 | of knowledge, and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties 523 Text, 0, 2 | perceives them, and exercises divers operations, as willing, 524 Text, 0, 97 | particular actions and ideas that diversify the day, merely for the 525 Pre, Int, 17 | than by being an innocent diversion and amusement - I say the 526 Pre, Int, 22 | thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how 527 Text, 0, 148| perceive manifest tokens of the Divinity: everything we see, hear, 528 Text, 0, 94 | barely being perceived, doubtless they would never fall down 529 Pre, Int, 1 | and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties than other 530 Text, 0, 96 | once expelled out of nature drags with it so many sceptical 531 Text, 0, 103| that it is by the mutual drawing of bodies instead of their 532 Pre, Int, 12 | line in two equal parts. He draws, for instance, a black line 533 Pre, Int, 20 | danger sufficient to excite a dread, though we think not of 534 Text, 0, 155| merely through a supine and dreadful negligence, sunk into Atheism. 535 Text, 0, 42 | be considered that in a dream we do oft perceive things 536 Text, 0, 119| of some, that they have dreamed of mighty mysteries involved 537 Text, 0, 18 | hands (and what happens in dreams, phrensies, and the like, 538 Pre, Int, 24 | separating from them all that dress and incumbrance of words 539 Text, 0, 156| promote, as it was the main drift and design of my labours, 540 Text, 0, 93 | their grand support, and driven from that only fortress, 541 Text, 0, 101| something there is in every drop of water, every grain of 542 Pre, Int, 4 | to arise from the natural dulness and limitation of our faculties. 543 Text, 0, 136| therefore infer that, all things duly considered, it is not more 544 Text, 0, 156| consideration of GOD and our DUTY; which to promote, as it 545 Text, 0, 155| earnestly to meditate and dwell on those important points; 546 Text, 0, 106| prejudice of truth, humour that eagerness of the mind whereby it is 547 Ded | RIGHT HONOURABLE~THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE, &c.,~KNIGHT 548 Pre, Int, 13 | acquainted with, nor such as its earliest knowledge is conversant 549 Pre, Int, 23 | to dissolve an union so early begun, and confirmed by 550 Text, 0, 114| the land. Or he may move eastward in respect of the one, and 551 Text, 0, 154| that shine throughout the Economy of Nature. But what truth 552 Text, 0, 61 | can deny might have been effected by the mere command of His 553 Text, 0, 61 | those roundabout methods of effecting things by instruments and 554 Text, 0, 141| of mankind, as the most effectual antidote against all impressions 555 Text, 0, 61 | like have no activity or efficacy in them, so as to be capable 556 Pre, Int, 10 | middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the 557 Text, 0, 54 | 54. In the eighth place, the universal concurrent 558 Text, 0, 106| growth of plants, and the elasticity of the air. There is nothing 559 Text, 0, 60 | variety of internal parts so elegantly contrived and put together; 560 Text, 0, 123| axiom or theorem in the elements of that science, yet is 561 Text, 0, 119| an uncommon fineness and elevation of thought. It hath set 562 Text, 0, 60 | 60. In the eleventh place, it will be demanded 563 Pre, Int, 14 | and labour of the mind, to emancipate our thoughts from particular 564 Pre, Int, 25 | Principles of Knowledge from the embarras and delusion of words, we 565 Pre, Int, 4 | difficulties, which stay and embarrass the mind in its search after 566 Text, 0, 98 | all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties. 567 Text, 0, 152| taxing the waste of seeds and embryos, and accidental destruction 568 Pre, Int, 20 | fitting to produce those emotions; but, if I mistake not, 569 Pre, Int, 23 | why those men who have so emphatically recommended to others the 570 Text, 0, 24 | if by this attention the emptiness or repugnancy of those expressions 571 Text, 0, 31 | sort of foresight which enables us to regulate our actions 572 Text, 0, 141| tabernacle wherein it is enclosed. And this notion has been 573 Ded | poor endeavours, were I not encouraged by that candour and native 574 Pre, Int, 21 | their ablest patrons; and endeavored to show they are of no use 575 Text, 0, 85 | the Objections, which I endeavoured to propose in the clearest 576 Text, 0, 133| its consequences cannot endure the light of examination 577 Text, 0, 134| have already been deeply engaged, and make large advances 578 Text, 0, 144| have contributed towards engaging men in controversies and 579 Pre, Int, 1 | time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm and serenity 580 Text, 0, 147| pure and clear light which enlightens every one is itself invisible.~ 581 Pre, Int, 22 | deeper was he likely to be ensnared and faster held therein. 582 Text, 0, 4 | soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever 583 Pre, Int, 24 | heavens and pry into the entrails of the earth, in vain do 584 Text, 0, 110| Treatise of Mechanics. In the entrance of which justly admired 585 Text, 0, 93 | fortress, without which your Epicureans, Hobbists, and the like, 586 Pre, Int, 16 | the right angle, nor the equality, nor determinate length 587 Text, 0, 139| necessary, in order to prevent equivocation and confounding natures 588 Text, 0, 89 | more importance towards erecting a firm system of sound and 589 Text, 0, 154| of the eyes, we may not escape seeing it? Is it therefore 590 Pre, Int, 5 | discern that which had escaped far better eyes.~ 591 Pre, Int, 6 | ideas. These are in a more especial manner thought to be the 592 Text, 0, 3 | perfectly unintelligible. Their esse is percepi, nor is it possible 593 Text, 0, 44 | error was necessary for establishing the notion therein laid 594 Text, 0, 114| be the place whereby they estimate true motions. If we sound 595 Text, 0, 98 | any finite spirit must be estimated by the number of ideas or 596 Text, 0, 66 | doctrine seems to have too much estranged the minds of men from that 597 Text, 0, 31 | without this we should be eternally at a loss; we could not 598 | everyone 599 Pre, Int, 23 | in order to remedy these evils, they advise well, that 600 Text, 0, 147| which does not more strongly evince the being of that Spirit 601 Text, 0, 105| find it consists not in an exacter knowledge of the efficient 602 Text, 0, 109| of the mind to affect an exactness in reducing each particular 603 Text, 0, 101| nature of things. This they exaggerate, and love to enlarge on. 604 Text, 0, 109| namely, to recreate and exalt the mind with a prospect 605 Pre, Int, 20 | should go before. Innumerable examples of this kind may be given, 606 Text, 0, 81 | number and extent are far exceeding those the Author of my being 607 Pre, Int, 11 | man and brutes, and is an excellency which the faculties of brutes 608 Text, 0, 118| whereof, Mathematics not excepted, does consequently participate 609 Text, 0, 68 | entirely made up of negatives, excepting only the relative notion 610 Text, 0, 63 | ordinary series of things. Such exceptions from the general rules of 611 Text, 0, 149| as it were, blinded with excess of light.~ 612 Text, 0, 93 | corruption as the body; which exclude all freedom, intelligence, 613 Text, 0, 2 | knows or perceives them, and exercises divers operations, as willing, 614 Text, 0, 148| own minds; and these being exhibited to our view in sundry distinct 615 Text, 0, 47 | of a finite magnitude, or exhibits only a finite number of 616 Text, 0, 3 | my study I should say it existed - meaning thereby that if 617 Text, 0, 96 | 96. Matter being once expelled out of nature drags with 618 Text, 0, 114| how this follows from the experiment which is brought to prove 619 Text, 0, 107| studied, and observations and experiments made, which, that they are 620 Text, 0, 73 | the gradual ceasing and expiration of those motives or reasons, 621 Text, 0, 62 | ornament of life as to the explaining various phenomena - which 622 Text, 0, 104| justly accounted for. Thus he explains the tides by the attraction 623 Text, 0, 121| more fully consider and expose the vanity of that pretence; 624 Text, 0, 46 | conservation, which by them is expounded to be a continual creation.~ 625 Text, 0, 121| numbers may be most aptly expressed; which seems to have been 626 Text, 0, 91 | attribute a natural subsistence, exterior to all thinking beings, 627 Text, 0, 99 | them, and run into great extravagances. All which depend on a twofold 628 Text, 0, 123| occasion of all that nice and extreme subtilty which renders the 629 Text, 0, 47 | varies, those parts in its extremities which were before unperceivable 630 Text, 0, 46 | absurd that upon closing my eyelids all the visible objects 631 Text, 0, 62 | observed that though the fabrication of all those parts and organs 632 Text, 0, 82 | in Holy Writ innumerable facts related which evidently 633 Pre, Int, 23 | their bare ideas, have yet failed to perform it themselves. 634 Text, 0, 52 | inconsistencies. But, a fair and ingenuous reader will 635 Text, 0, 24 | this, I know no readier or fairer way than to entreat they 636 Pre, Int, 24 | curtain of words, to hold the fairest tree of knowledge, whose 637 Text, 0, 95 | with the articles of our faith, has occasioned no small 638 Text, 0, 103| attraction. That a stone falls to the earth, or the sea 639 Text, 0, 156| God; and, having shewn the falseness or vanity of those barren 640 Pre, Int, 25 | to discover the truth or falsity of what I say. He will be 641 Text, 0, 152| prejudice contracted by our familiarity with impotent and saving 642 Text, 0, 151| an All-wise Spirit, who fashions, regulates and sustains 643 Pre, Int, 22 | likely to be ensnared and faster held therein. Thirdly, so 644 Text, 0, 93 | either to blind chance or fatal necessity arising from the 645 Text, 0, 94 | support of Atheists and Fatalists, but on the same principle 646 Text, 0, 101| of human understanding to fathom or comprehend. But, it is 647 Text, 0, 154| mind that there are any favourers of Atheism or the Manichean 648 Text, 0, 155| truth. And yet it is to be feared that too many of parts and 649 Text, 0, 38 | more than to say, we are fed and clothed with those things 650 Text, 0, 89 | own existence by inward feeling or reflexion, and that of 651 Text, 0, 95 | is immediately seen and felt, which is only a combination 652 Text, 0, 14 | bitter, as in case of a fever or otherwise vitiated palate. 653 Text, 0, 155| truths cannot choose but fill our hearts with an awful 654 Text, 0, 97 | he is to get thither, he finds not the least difficulty. 655 Text, 0, 119| have affected an uncommon fineness and elevation of thought. 656 Pre, Int, 22 | circumstance, that by how much the finer and more curious was the 657 Text, 0, 69 | as when the burning my finger is said to be the occasion 658 Pre, Int, 9 | also all birds, beasts, fishes, and insects. The constituent 659 Pre, Int, 20 | occasioned ideas that were fitting to produce those emotions; 660 Text, 0, 141| to be only a thin vital flame, or system of animal spirits, 661 Pre, Pre | to a thinking reader, I flatter myself it will be throughout 662 Text, 0, 89 | substances: the latter are inert, fleeting, dependent beings, which 663 Text, 0, 151| unperceivable to men of flesh and blood. "Verily" (saith 664 Text, 0, 119| low opinion of those high flights and abstractions, and look 665 Text, 0, 150| pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are covered 666 Text, 0, 129| and contradictions which flowed from this false principle 667 Text, 0, 98 | ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly and is participated 668 Text, 0, 106| quite contrary tendency to fly asunder just as He sees 669 Pre, Int, 9 | be neither walking, nor flying, nor creeping; it is nevertheless 670 Text, 0, 32 | ideas of Sense constantly followed by other ideas and we know 671 Text, 0, 11 | with in Aristotle and his followers. Without extension solidity 672 Text, 0, 81 | were certainly the utmost folly and presumption - since 673 Text, 0, 125| mathematicians are all so fond and tenacious of that doctrine.~ 674 Text, 0, 75 | of man retains so great a fondness, against all the evidence 675 Text, 0, 31 | least pain of sense. That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, 676 Text, 0, 12 | with reference to a yard, a foot, or an inch. Number is so 677 Pre, Int, 11 | is evident we observe no foot-steps in them of making use of 678 Text, 0, 55 | but a very inconsiderable footing in the world.~ 679 Pre, Int, 24 | learned men and trace the dark footsteps of antiquity - we need only 680 Text, 0, 81 | reply, perhaps, that in the fore-said definition is included what 681 Text, 0, 31 | This gives us a sort of foresight which enables us to regulate 682 Text, 0, 65 | approaching it, but the mark that forewarns me of it. In like manner 683 Pre, Int, 1 | is worse, sit down in a forlorn Scepticism.~ 684 Text, 0, 93 | intelligence, and design from the formation of things, and instead thereof 685 Text, 0, 75 | Matter, though, when reason forsakes us, we endeavour to support 686 Text, 0, 32 | not of our own doing, we forthwith attribute power and agency 687 Text, 0, 93 | and driven from that only fortress, without which your Epicureans, 688 Text, 0, 92 | so likewise upon the same foundation have been raised all the 689 Text, 0, 131| it will follow the very foundations of Geometry are destroyed, 690 Text, 0, 117| arising from it is that we are freed from that dangerous dilemma, 691 Text, 0, 92 | co-eternal with Him. How great a friend material substance has been 692 Text, 0, 96 | seem), yet I am sure all friends to knowledge, peace, and 693 Pre, Int, 24 | tree of knowledge, whose fruit is excellent, and within 694 Text, 0, 133| same time appear to be most fruitful Principles, from whence 695 Text, 0, 96 | philosophers, and made so much fruitless work for mankind, that if 696 Text, 0, 151| monsters, untimely births, fruits blasted in the blossom, 697 Text, 0, 1 | quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours; the palate 698 Pre, Int, 14 | surmounting that difficulty, and furnishing themselves with those necessary 699 Text, 0, 124| impossible it should ever gain the assent of any reasonable 700 Text, 0, 45 | trees therefore are in the garden, or the chairs in the parlour, 701 Ded | MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER~AND ONE OF THE LORDS OF 702 Text, 0, 69 | occasion. So far as I can gather from the common use of language, 703 Pre, Int, 11 | are able to abstract or generalize their ideas. That this is 704 Text, 0, 52 | far to alter the bent and genius of the tongue we speak, 705 Text, 0, 124| degrees, as a converted Gentile to the belief of transubstantiation. 706 Text, 0, 124| is not brought to it by gentle and slow degrees, as a converted 707 Text, 0, 126| or, in other words, the geometer considers them abstracting 708 Text, 0, 130| scruples and disputes among the geometers of the present age. Some 709 Text, 0, 123| spring all those amusing geometrical paradoxes which have such 710 Pre, Int, 12 | by an example, suppose a geometrician is demonstrating the method 711 Text, 0, 125| as well in the minds of geometricians as of other men, and have 712 Pre | GEORGE BERKELEY PREFACE~ 713 Text, 0, 155| places whither we go, and giveth us bread to eat and raiment 714 Text, 0, 104| attraction of the terraqueous globe towards the moon, which 715 Text, 0, 109| were designed for, God's glory, and the sustentation and 716 Text, 0, 60 | there is any fault in the going of a watch, there is some 717 Text, 0, 156| the salutary truths of the Gospel, which to know and to practice 718 Pre, Int, 1 | plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, 719 Text, 0, 125| discerned. These errors are grafted as well in the minds of 720 Text, 0, 101| every drop of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond 721 Text, 0, 108| an observance of general grammar rules; so, in arguing from 722 Text, 0, 109| rather than lay them out in grammatical remarks on the language; 723 Text, 0, 93 | see them deprived of their grand support, and driven from 724 Text, 0, 109| enlarge our notions of the grandeur, wisdom, and beneficence 725 Text, 0, 97 | abstract, then it will perhaps gravel even a philosopher to comprehend 726 Text, 0, 141| And this notion has been greedily embraced and cherished by 727 Text, 0, 1 | passions of love, hatred, joy, grief, and so forth.~ 728 Text, 0, 155| to Virtue, and the best guard against Vice.~ 729 Text, 0, 84 | smell, and taste of the guests, so as to create in them 730 Text, 0, 151| is so necessary for our guidance in the affairs of life, 731 Text, 0, 91 | of their reality, and are guilty of no innovation in that 732 Pre, Int, 23 | and confirmed by so long a habit as that betwixt words and 733 Pre, Int, 6 | scarce find any question handled in such a manner as does 734 Text, 0, 22 | am needlessly prolix in handling this subject. For, to what 735 Text, 0, 105| touching things that may have happened at very great distances 736 Text, 0, 100| frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular 737 Text, 0, 100| What it is for a man to be happy, or an object good, every 738 Text, 0, 105| comprehension, whereby analogies, harmonies, and agreements are discovered 739 Text, 0, 71 | of music to produce that harmonious train and composition of 740 Text, 0, 38 | as thing, would sound no harsher nor more ridiculous than 741 Text, 0, 31 | is the way to reap in the harvest; and in general that to 742 Pre, Int, 13 | ideas, and makes all the haste to them it can, for the 743 Pre, Pre | prevent, if possible, the hasty censures of a sort of men 744 Text, 0, 27 | such as willing, loving, hating - inasmuch as we know or 745 Text, 0, 101| drawn principally from this head, namely, that we are under 746 Pre, Int, 20 | raise in the mind of the hearer. Even proper names themselves 747 Text, 0, 93 | beings; that they should hearken to those who deny a Providence, 748 Text, 0, 4 | whoever shall find in his heart to call it in question may, 749 Text, 0, 155| cannot choose but fill our hearts with an awful circumspection 750 Text, 0, 150| immediate hand of God that heathen philosophers are wont to 751 Text, 0, 150| chimera, introduced by those heathens who had not just notions 752 Pre, Int, 14 | themselves with those necessary helps for discourse. It cannot 753 | HER 754 Text, 0, 148| pretence of the unthinking herd that they cannot see God. 755 Text, 0, 154| Atheism or the Manichean Heresy to be found. Little and 756 Text, 0, 53 | Corporeal Causes, this has been heretofore maintained by some of the 757 Text, 0, 137| have risen many absurd and heterodox tenets, and much scepticism 758 Text, 0, 151| prophet) "thou art a God that hidest thyself." Isaiah, 45. 15. 759 Pre, Int, 1 | of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and 760 Text, 0, 156| know and to practice is the highest perfection of human nature.~ 761 Pre, Int, 22 | sciences has been a main hindrance to the growth of true and 762 Text, 0, 107| reason can be drawn why the history of nature should not still 763 Text, 0, 93 | without which your Epicureans, Hobbists, and the like, have not 764 Text, 0, 130| note who, not content with holding that finite lines may be 765 Text, 0, 155| sense of the omnipresence, holiness, and justice of that Almighty 766 Text, 0, 94 | but rather address their homage to that ETERNAL INVISIBLE 767 Ded | person, who has not the honour to be known to your lordship, 768 Pre, Int, 11 | or slow, perpendicular, horizontal, or oblique, or in whatever 769 Pre, Int, 10 | joined to the body of a horse. I can consider the hand, 770 Text, 0, 60 | index, and points to the hour of the day. If so, why may 771 Text, 0, 141| and dissolutions which we hourly see befall natural bodies ( 772 Pre, Int, 9 | man, or, if you please, humanity, or human nature; wherein 773 Ded | LORD,~ Your lordship's most humble~ and most devoted servant,~ 774 Text, 0, 102| I need not say how many hypotheses and speculations are left 775 Text, 0, 133| were proposed only as an hypothesis, and the existence of Matter 776 Text, 0, 97 | difficulties with regard to ideal knowledge is the doctrine 777 Text, 0, 95 | material substance, about the identity whereof all the dispute 778 Text, 0, 94 | the same principle doth Idolatry likewise in all its various 779 Pre, Int, 4 | wisest men have thought our ignorance incurable, conceiving it 780 Text, 0, 40 | the stress and assurance imaginable; nor are there any principles 781 Text, 0, 84 | this business of real and imaginary has been already so plainly 782 Text, 0, 121| seems to have been done in imitation of language, so that an 783 Text, 0, 93 | inclinations, by deriding immaterial substance, and supposing 784 Pre, Pre | demonstration of the existence and immateriality of God, or the natural immortality 785 Text, 0, 141| soul of man is naturally immortal."~ 786 Text, 0, 54 | sort, I refer it to the impartial examination of the reader. 787 Pre, Pre | content the reader should impartially examine; since I do not 788 Text, 0, 9 | motion, rest, solidity or impenetrability, and number; by the latter 789 Text, 0, 122| should spend his time in impertinent criticisms upon words, or 790 Text, 0, 21 | difficulties (not to mention impieties) which have sprung from 791 Text, 0, 35 | empty name to support his impiety; and the Philosophers may 792 Pre, Int, 3 | whatever appetites it may have implanted in the creatures, doth usually 793 Pre, Int, 11 | determinate colour. It is only implied that whatever particular 794 Text, 0, 89 | 89. Nothing seems of more importance towards erecting a firm 795 Pre, Int, 21 | have, I think, shewn the impossibility of Abstract Ideas. We have 796 Text, 0, 152| by our familiarity with impotent and saving mortals. In man 797 Text, 0, 80 | is any kind of effect or impression made on my mind different 798 Text, 0, 152| to full maturity, as an imprudence in the Author of nature, 799 Text, 0, 133| false Principles which were impugned in the foregoing parts of 800 Text, 0, 150| philosophers are wont to impute to Nature. "The Lord He 801 Text, 0, 52 | making allowances for those inaccurate modes of speech which use 802 Text, 0, 149| instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though they 803 Text, 0, 141| opinion that it is absolutely incapable of annihilation even by 804 Text, 0, 155| which is the strongest incentive to Virtue, and the best 805 Text, 0, 127| line containing more, the inch-line is said to contain parts 806 Text, 0, 151| desert places, miseries incident to human life, and the like, 807 Text, 0, 117| particularly to shew the incommunicable attributes of God agree 808 Text, 0, 55 | notions have gained but a very inconsiderable footing in the world.~ 809 Text, 0, 57 | Spirit; especially since inconsistency and mutability in acting, 810 Text, 0, 118| those principles clear and incontestible, we do not deny; but, we 811 Text, 0, 151| outbalances whatever particular inconveniences may thence arise.~ 812 Text, 0, 127| neglected without an error or inconveniency, yet these described lines, 813 Text, 0, 141| and it is consequently incorruptible. Nothing can be plainer 814 Pre, Int, 23 | seems to have been very much increased by the doctrine of abstraction. 815 Text, 0, 24 | This is what I repeat and inculcate, and earnestly recommend 816 Text, 0, 142| to see a sound. This is inculcated because I imagine it may 817 Pre, Int, 24 | them all that dress and incumbrance of words which so much contribute 818 Pre, Int, 4 | have thought our ignorance incurable, conceiving it to arise 819 Text, 0, 74 | since the thing itself is indefensible, at least to retain the 820 Text, 0, 74 | not what abstracted and indefinite notions of being, or occasion, 821 Text, 0, 11 | how nearly the vague and indeterminate description of Matter or 822 Text, 0, 60 | Intelligence which directs the index, and points to the hour 823 Text, 0, 121| notation of the Arabians or Indians came into use, wherein, 824 Text, 0, 63 | make, and are such plain indications of wisdom and beneficence 825 Text, 0, 153| we are in at present, is indispensably necessary to our well-being. 826 Text, 0, 141| such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature; 827 Pre, Int, 20 | view the ideas of those individuals that are supposed to be 828 Text, 0, 129| had rather acquiesce in an indolent scepticism than be at the 829 Text, 0, 18 | sense. But what reason can induce us to believe the existence 830 Text, 0, 102| 102. One great inducement to our pronouncing ourselves 831 Text, 0, 50 | easily be made appear by an induction of particulars. To explain 832 Text, 0, 75 | the thing, and though we indulge ourselves in the full scope 833 Pre, Int, 3 | agreeable to the wonted indulgent methods of Providence, which, 834 Text, 0, 156| them altogether useless and ineffectual if, by what I have said, 835 Text, 0, 64 | instruments, being barely inefficacious perceptions in the mind, 836 Text, 0, 25 | implies passiveness and inertness in it, insomuch that it 837 Text, 0, 52 | speech which use has made inevitable.~ 838 Text, 0, 81 | perception, what ideas the inexhaustible power of the Supreme Spirit 839 Text, 0, 152| must not imagine that the inexplicably fine machine of an animal 840 Text, 0, 121| view of Arithmetic in its infancy, and observing what it was 841 Text, 0, 31 | affairs of life than an infant just born.~ 842 Text, 0, 119| and hath therefore so far infected the minds of some, that 843 Text, 0, 136| sensation. We may therefore infer that, all things duly considered, 844 Text, 0, 109| things: hence, by proper inferences, to enlarge our notions 845 Text, 0, 74 | reflexion, from whence may be inferred the existence of an inert, 846 Text, 0, 18 | things, it must be by reason, inferring their existence from what 847 Text, 0, 133| and general pretence of "infinites being incomprehensible"; 848 Text, 0, 132| make use of or conceive infinitesimal parts of finite lines, or 849 Text, 0, 130| late the speculations about Infinities have run so high, and grown 850 Text, 0, 101| groundless, and that we are influenced by false principles to that 851 Text, 0, 44 | Spirit on whom we depend informs us what tangible ideas he 852 Text, 0, 144| motion of the soul; this infuses a belief that the mind of 853 Text, 0, 52 | inconsistencies. But, a fair and ingenuous reader will collect the 854 Text, 0, 106| is an essential quality inherent in all bodies whatsoever. 855 Text, 0, 81 | own few, stinted narrow inlets of perception, what ideas 856 Text, 0, 155| present and conscious to our innermost thoughts; and that we have 857 Pre, Int, 17 | otherwise than by being an innocent diversion and amusement - 858 Text, 0, 91 | reality, and are guilty of no innovation in that respect. All the 859 Pre, Int, 21 | by the joint labours of inquisitive men in all ages and nations 860 Pre, Int, 9 | birds, beasts, fishes, and insects. The constituent parts of 861 Text, 0, 102| and suchlike qualities, of insensible particles; whereas, in truth, 862 Pre, Int, 1 | these by reason, we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, 863 Text, 0, 123| supposed and thought to have so inseparable and essential a connexion 864 Text, 0, 10 | those original qualities are inseparably united with the other sensible 865 Text, 0, 156| what I have said, I cannot inspire my readers with a pious 866 Pre, Int, 20 | this effect is often so instantly produced in the minds of 867 Pre, Int, 1 | we depart from sense and instinct to follow the light of a 868 Text, 0, 146| pain and pleasure, and the instincts or natural inclinations, 869 Text, 0, 66 | to understand those signs instituted by the Author of Nature, 870 Text, 0, 8 | like something which is intangible; and so of the rest.~ 871 Text, 0, 119| opinion of the pure and intellectual nature of numbers in abstract 872 Text, 0, 121| things themselves that we intend to number.~ 873 Text, 0, 135| Having despatched what we intended to say concerning the knowledge 874 Text, 0, 154| generality of men, who are ever intent on business or pleasure, 875 Text, 0, 122| the true use or original intention and subserviency of language, 876 Text, 0, 147| His power," maintains that intercourse between spirits whereby 877 Text, 0, 75 | thoughtless somewhat, by the interposition whereof it would as it were 878 Text, 0, 152| natural things should not be interpreted weakness or prodigality 879 Text, 0, 57 | the course of nature is interrupted by a miracle, men are ready 880 Text, 0, 48 | exist not at all during the intervals between our perception of 881 Text, 0, 151| plainly legible than the intimate presence of an All-wise 882 Pre, Int, 4 | spring from any darkness and intricacy in the objects, or natural 883 Text, 0, 3 | perceiving them. - I think an intuitive knowledge may be obtained 884 Text, 0, 4 | mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. 885 Text, 0, 6 | perfectly unintelligible, and involving all the absurdity of abstraction, 886 Pre, Int, 17 | paradoxes which are perfectly irreconcilable to the understandings of 887 Pre, Int, 25 | lose ourselves the more irrecoverably, and be the deeper entangled 888 Text, 0, 92 | impious schemes of Atheism and Irreligion. Nay, so great a difficulty 889 Text, 0, 151| God that hidest thyself." Isaiah, 45. 15. But, though the 890 Text, 0, 22 | put the whole upon this issue: - If you can but conceive 891 Text, 0, 120| subordinate to practice, and how jejune and trifling it becomes 892 Text, 0, 150| wind out of his treasures." Jerem. 10. 13. "He turneth the 893 Pre, Int, 9 | observed that Peter, James, and John resemble each other in certain 894 Pre, Int, 20 | abstract? If any one shall join ever so little reflexion 895 Pre, Int, 10 | the upper parts of a man joined to the body of a horse. 896 Pre, Int, 21 | has been purchased by the joint labours of inquisitive men 897 Text, 0, 1 | passions of love, hatred, joy, grief, and so forth.~ 898 Pre, Int, 12 | general we may the better judge how words are made so. And 899 Text, 0, 43 | nor yet apprehended or judged of by lines and angles, 900 Text, 0, 114| greater extent of thought, and juster notions of the system of 901 Text, 0, 154| those who are masters of any justness and extent of thought, and 902 Pre, Int, 18 | It is one thing for to keep a name constantly to the 903 Text, 0, 155| that He is with us and keepeth us in all places whither 904 Pre, Int, 21 | and naked into my view, keeping out of my thoughts so far 905 Text, 0, 106| various laws, whilst He keeps others at a fixed distance; 906 Text, 0, 110| 110. The best key for the aforesaid analogy 907 Text, 0, 107| only of God's goodness and kindness to men in the administration 908 Ded | EARL OF PEMBROKE, &c.,~KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER 909 Pre, Int, 17 | the manifold inextricable labyrinths of error and dispute which 910 Text, 0, 75 | prejudice, and much to be lamented, that the mind of man retains 911 Text, 0, 114| move with relation to the land. Or he may move eastward 912 Text, 0, 83 | manifest, from what has been largely set forth in the premises, 913 Text, 0, 105| but only in a greater largeness of comprehension, whereby 914 Pre, Int, 5 | the consideration that the largest views are not always the 915 Text, 0, 51 | not a man be deservedly laughed at, who should talk after 916 Text, 0, 104| example of a general rule or law of nature.~ 917 Pre, Int, 23 | recommended to others the laying aside all use of words in 918 Text, 0, 98 | existence; since that doctrine lays one under an absolute necessity 919 Text, 0, 129| on purpose to humour the laziness of the mind which had rather 920 Text, 0, 151| eyes of the sensual and lazy, who will not be at the 921 Text, 0, 32 | of nature, is so far from leading our thoughts to Him, that 922 Text, 0, 30 | of nature; and these we learn by experience, which teaches 923 Text, 0, 151| nothing can be more plainly legible than the intimate presence 924 Text, 0, 155| that too many of parts and leisure, who live in Christian countries, 925 Text, 0, 116| resistance to motion is lesser or greater, I say the space 926 Pre, Int, 4 | grounds to suspect that those lets and difficulties, which 927 Text, 0, 151| the affairs of life, and letting us into the secret of nature, 928 Text, 0, 131| study of such things as lie nearer the concerns of life, 929 Text, 0, 150| vapours to ascend; He maketh lightnings with rain; He bringeth forth 930 Pre, Int, 4 | the natural dulness and limitation of our faculties. And surely 931 Text, 0, 153| good, when considered as linked with the whole system of 932 Text, 0, 16 | be taken in its usual or literal sense - as when we say that 933 Text, 0, 30 | of Sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those 934 Pre, Int, 9 | which are common to all the living creatures, frames the idea 935 Text, 0, 121| conditions of the simple and local value of figures, were contrived 936 Text, 0, 126| whether great or small, but looks on that as a thing different 937 Ded | THE GARTER~AND ONE OF THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S~MOST HONOURABLE 938 Text, 0, 31 | should be eternally at a loss; we could not know how to 939 Text, 0, 27 | the mind: such as willing, loving, hating - inasmuch as we 940 Text, 0, 72 | of reason, though in the lowest rank of probability, that 941 Text, 0, 32 | by sight a certain round luminous figure we at the same time 942 Text, 0, 118| in their principles there lurks some secret error which 943 Text, 0, 146| natural things, the surprising magnificence, beauty, and perfection 944 Text, 0, 147| the word of His power," maintains that intercourse between 945 Ded | ONE OF THE LORDS OF HER MAJESTY'S~MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY 946 Text, 0, 31 | man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of 947 Text, 0, 152| In man indeed a thrifty management of those things which he 948 Text, 0, 154| favourers of Atheism or the Manichean Heresy to be found. Little 949 Text, 0, 149| surrounded with such clear manifestations of the Deity, are yet so 950 Pre, Int, 17 | abstraction, through all the manifold inextricable labyrinths 951 Text, 0, 131| direct influence on the manners.~ 952 Text, 0, 83 | proper use of words is the marking our conceptions, or things 953 Text, 0, 84 | Saviour did no more at the marriage-feast in Cana than impose on the 954 Text, 0, 11 | much ridiculed notion of materia prima, to be met with in 955 Text, 0, 114| Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in Schol. Def. VIII. For 956 Text, 0, 110| relative, true and apparent, mathematical and vulgar; which distinction, 957 Text, 0, 152| before they come to full maturity, as an imprudence in the 958 Pre, Int, 1 | wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just 959 Text, 0, 111| obliged to use their sensible measures, and so define both place 960 Text, 0, 110| certain celebrated Treatise of Mechanics. In the entrance of which 961 Pre, Int, 18 | name; and that it is by the mediation of these abstract ideas 962 Pre, Int, 23 | all use of words in their meditations, and contemplating their 963 Text, 0, 97 | sense. Bid your servant meet you at such a time in such 964 Ded | the studies of one of its members. These considerations determined 965 Text, 0, 60 | the movements, which being mended by a skilful hand all is 966 Pre, Int, 9 | by the same precision or mental separation, attain abstract 967 Text, 0, 51 | sets," or "comes to the meridian"; and if they affected a 968 Text, 0, 11 | of materia prima, to be met with in Aristotle and his 969 Text, 0, 97 | passed through the hands of a metaphysician, they become too abstract 970 Text, 0, 60 | be discerned by the best microscope. In short, it will be asked, 971 Pre, Int, 9 | nor low stature, nor yet middle stature, but something abstracted 972 Pre, Int, 10 | a tall, or a low, or a middle-sized man. I cannot by any effort 973 Text, 0, 127| inch; but there is of a mile or diameter of the earth, 974 Text, 0, 42 | the distance of several miles should be as near to us 975 Text, 0, 62 | things, might if He were minded to produce a miracle, cause 976 Text, 0, 36 | that every vegetable, star, mineral, and in general each part 977 Text, 0, 95 | same absurd principle, by mingling itself with the articles 978 Text, 0, 132| quantities less than the minimum sensible; nay, it will be 979 Text, 0, 10 | texture, and motion of the minute particles of matter. This 980 Text, 0, 151| falling in desert places, miseries incident to human life, 981 Pre, Pre | it be remedied) to gross misinterpretation, and to be charged with 982 Text, 0, 133| consequence; if it be not even missed in the world, but everything 983 Text, 0, 115| shews we are capable of mistaking a thing to be in motion 984 Text, 0, 153| 153. As for the mixture of pain or uneasiness which 985 Text, 0, 155| unconvinced of such an evident and momentous truth. And yet it is to 986 Text, 0, 151| Almighty Agent. Besides, monsters, untimely births, fruits 987 Text, 0, 150| shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark 988 Text, 0, 152| with impotent and saving mortals. In man indeed a thrifty 989 Text, 0, 84 | principles. What must we think of Moses' rod? was it not really 990 | mostly 991 Text, 0, 60 | spring and wheels, and every movement of a watch, and adjusted 992 Text, 0, 142| and to expect that by any multiplication or enlargement of our faculties 993 Pre, Int, 1 | and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance 994 Text, 0, 121| betwixt them and the distinct multitudes of things whereof one is 995 Text, 0, 71 | after the same manner as a musician is directed by the notes 996 Text, 0, 57 | since inconsistency and mutability in acting, though it be 997 Text, 0, 119| they have dreamed of mighty mysteries involved in numbers, and 998 Pre, Int, 9 | hair, feathers, scales, and nakedness being the distinguishing 999 Pre, Int, 18 | they are made in order to naming; from which it is a clear 1000 Pre, Int, 21 | inquisitive men in all ages and nations may be drawn into the view