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1001 Ded            |      encouraged by that candour and native goodness which is so bright
1002 Text,   0,  114|          prove it. See Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in
1003 Text,   0,  22 |           given cause to think I am needlessly prolix in handling this
1004 Text,   0,  80 |             at all, so long as this negative definition of Matter is
1005 Text,   0,  68 |      definition entirely made up of negatives, excepting only the relative
1006 Text,   0,  155|            be found so stupid as to neglect, than that neglecting they
1007 Text,   0,  127|             and consequently may be neglected without an error or inconveniency,
1008 Text,   0,  155|       through a supine and dreadful negligence, sunk into Atheism. Since
1009 Pre, Int,  22  |             of that fine and subtle net of abstract ideas which
1010 Text,   0,  146|            whole, but above all the never-enough-admired laws of pain and pleasure,
1011 Pre, Pre       |            reason but because it is newly known, and contrary to the
1012 Text,   0,  123|      principal occasion of all that nice and extreme subtilty which
1013 Text,   0,  5  |           ideas. For can there be a nicer strain of abstraction than
1014 Text,   0,  45 |              For my part, after the nicest inquiry I could make, I
1015 Text,   0,  62 |                    62. But, to come nigher the difficulty, it must
1016 Ded            |              c.,~KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER~AND
1017 Text,   0,  109|         should propose to ourselves nobler views, namely, to recreate
1018 Text,   0,  65 |           of it. In like manner the noise that I hear is not the effect
1019 Text,   0,  68 |             to the description of a nonentity I desire may be considered.
1020 Pre, Int,  10  |     consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by itself abstracted
1021 Text,   0,  127|            follows that, to prevent notable errors in practice, the
1022 Pre, Int,  12  |            so. And here it is to be noted that I do not deny absolutely
1023 Text,   0,  34 |            that is, they are purely notional. What therefore becomes
1024 Text,   0,  116|           we are apt to think every noun substantive stands for a
1025 Text,   0,  31 |            pain of sense. That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire
1026 Pre, Pre       |            As for the characters of novelty and singularity which some
1027 Text,   0,  119|          only as so many difficiles nugae, so far as they are not
1028 Text,   0,  120|          from the particular things numbered, can be supposed to have
1029 Text,   0,  119|          price on the most trifling numerical speculations which in practice
1030 Text,   0,  148|           that He is, and believing obey His commands. But alas,
1031 Pre, Int,  16  |     conclude that to be true of any obliquangular or scalenon which I had
1032 Text,   0,  28 |             by the same power it is obliterated and makes way for another.
1033 Text,   0,  86 |           these hath been very much obscured and confounded, and we have
1034 Pre, Int,  2   |           this is thought to be the obscurity of things, or the natural
1035 Text,   0,  131|          men of great abilities and obstinate application would draw off
1036 Text,   0,  56 |      prejudice, and account for its obtaining in the world. To this I
1037 Text,   0,  47 |          from those perceived by an obtuser sense. And at length, after
1038 Text,   0,  115|            secondly, that the force occasioning that change be applied to
1039 Text,   0,  102|          account for appearances by occult qualities, but of late they
1040 Text,   0,  111|         that part of space which is occupied by any body; and according
1041 Text,   0,  3  |           perceive it. There was an odour, that is, it was smelt;
1042 Text,   0,  1  |          Smelling furnishes me with odours; the palate with tastes;
1043 Pre, Int,  13  |          them, and do not so easily offer themselves as we are apt
1044 Text,   0,  78 |     substance that has been already offered with relation to figure,
1045 Text,   0,  23 |            trees, and the same time omitting to frame the idea of any
1046 Text,   0,  152|           more evident than that an Omnipotent Spirit can indifferently
1047 Text,   0,  105|           sort of endeavour towards omniscience is much affected by the
1048 Text,   0,  41 |       betwixt dreaming or imagining oneself burnt, and actually being
1049 Text,   0,  45 |            nothing, and barely upon opening them it is again created.
1050 Text,   0,  50 |        ideas. But how Matter should operate on a Spirit, or produce
1051 Text,   0,  151|        elsewhere observed, that the operating according to general and
1052 Text,   0,  60 |            have nothing powerful or operative in them, nor have any necessary
1053 Text,   0,  40 |           there any principles more opposite to Scepticism than those
1054 Text,   0,  133|           of this treatise; and the opposites of those erroneous tenets
1055 Text,   0,  60 |         purpose serves that curious organization of plants, and the animal
1056 Text,   0,  8  |          ask whether those supposed originals or external things, of which
1057                | ours
1058 Text,   0,  151|            consideration abundantly outbalances whatever particular inconveniences
1059 Text,   0,  43 |           is shewn that distance or outness is neither immediately of
1060 Text,   0,  101|            and amused only with the outside and show of things. The
1061 Text,   0,  63 |        Author of nature display His overruling power in producing some
1062 Pre, Int,  3   |             knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselves  - that we
1063 Text,   0,  12 |          mind. We say one book, one page, one line, etc.; all these
1064 Pre, Int,  14  |           not conscious of any such painstaking; it remains therefore to
1065 Text,   0,  70 |      certain permanent and distinct parcels of Matter, corresponding
1066 Text,   0,  34 |     apprehensions, I hope it may be pardoned, since all men do not equally
1067 Text,   0,  131|      Speculative Mathematics may be pared off without any prejudice
1068 Text,   0,  23 |           trees, for instance, in a park, or books existing in a
1069 Text,   0,  45 |        garden, or the chairs in the parlour, no longer than while there
1070 Pre, Int,  3   |              perhaps, we may be too partial to ourselves in placing
1071 Text,   0,  98 |        which flows uniformly and is participated by all beings, I am lost
1072 Pre, Int,  13  |            to, I shall add one more passage out of the Essay on Human
1073 Text,   0,  97 |        everybody knows, but, having passed through the hands of a metaphysician,
1074 Pre, Int,  20  |              as the raising of some passion, the exciting to or deterring
1075 Text,   0,  25 |            being of an idea implies passiveness and inertness in it, insomuch
1076 Text,   0,  150|           His goodness; so that the pastures are clothed with flocks,
1077 Ded            |            of your lordship for his patron, will not be thought strange
1078 Text,   0,  25 |            it be the resemblance or pattern of any active being, as
1079 Text,   0,  150|             if we may believe Saint Paul) "He be not far from every
1080 Text,   0,  96 |           all friends to knowledge, peace, and religion have reason
1081 Text,   0,  152|            in its production than a pebble does; nothing being more
1082 Ded            |          HONOURABLE~THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE, &c.,~KNIGHT OF THE MOST
1083 Pre, Int,  2   |         comfort of life, and not to penetrate into the inward essence
1084 Text,   0,  3  |       unintelligible. Their esse is percepi, nor is it possible they
1085 Text,   0,  141|             animal spirits, make it perishing and corruptible as the body;
1086 Text,   0,  111|          sense, for the duration or perseverance of the existence of things,
1087 Text,   0,  155|         that Almighty Spirit should persist in a remorseless violation
1088 Text,   0,  125|       abstract general ideas may be persuaded that (whatever be thought
1089 Pre, Pre       |        nevertheless, upon an entire perusal will appear not to follow
1090 Text,   0,  109|             on the language; so, in perusing the volume of nature, it
1091 Text,   0,  87 |          hear, and feel may be only phantom and vain chimera, and not
1092 Text,   0,  114|            brought to prove it. See Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica,
1093 Text,   0,  111|       immovable. But, it is said in philosophical matters we must abstract
1094 Text,   0,  52 |       ordinary affairs of life, any phrases may be retained, so long
1095 Text,   0,  18 |             what happens in dreams, phrensies, and the like, puts it beyond
1096 Text,   0,  152|            creation, as shades in a picture serve to set off the brighter
1097 Text,   0,  8  |             which our ideas are the pictures or representations, be themselves
1098 Text,   0,  155|    downright impossible that a soul pierced and enlightened with a thorough
1099 Text,   0,  92 |     substance to have been the main pillar and support of Scepticism,
1100 Text,   0,  16 |         sense - as when we say that pillars support a building; in what
1101 Text,   0,  156|           inspire my readers with a pious sense of the Presence of
1102 Pre, Int,  3   |             partial to ourselves in placing the fault originally in
1103 Text,   0,  58 |         move among the choir of the planets, and appearing in all respects
1104 Text,   0,  1  |          things - which as they are pleasing or disagreeable excite the
1105 Pre, Int,  20  |       experience will, I doubt not, plentifully suggest unto him?~
1106 Text,   0,  107|         confess I see no reason why pointing out the various ends to
1107 Pre, Int,  17  |          all together, a very small portion of them does supply any
1108 Text,   0,  125|           He whose understanding is possessed with the doctrine of abstract
1109 Pre, Int,  21  |          into the view and made the possession of one single person. But
1110 Text,   0,  131|          that science considered as practical will rather receive advantage
1111 Pre, Int,  14  |           couple of children cannot prate together of their sugar-plums
1112 Text,   0,  62 |           and rightly adjusts them, precede the production of the aforesaid
1113 Text,   0,  26 |            ideas, is clear from the preceding section. I must therefore
1114 Pre, Int,  9   |             so does it, by the same precision or mental separation, attain
1115 Text,   0,  105|            and place, as well as to predict things to come; which sort
1116 Text,   0,  59 |          but sure and well-grounded predictions concerning the ideas we
1117 Text,   0,  54 |       assigned of so widespread and predominant an error? I answer, first,
1118 Text,   0,  83 |            largely set forth in the premises, that it is needless to
1119 Pre, Int,  6   |                      6. In order to prepare the mind of the reader for
1120 Text,   0,  124|          the mind of man may not be prepared to swallow.~
1121 Text,   0,  99 |     consider them by themselves, we presently lose sight of them, and
1122 Ded            |            to your lordship, should presume to address you in this manner.
1123 Text,   0,  143|           dark and ambiguous terms, presumed to stand for abstract notions,
1124 Text,   0,  81 |      certainly the utmost folly and presumption - since there may be, for
1125 Pre, Int,  23  |           all these advantages doth presuppose an entire deliverance from
1126 Text,   0,  66 |            philosopher; and not the pretending to explain things by corporeal
1127 Text,   0,  40 |            how plausible soever, to prevail over the certainty of them.
1128 Text,   0,  144|           could but philosophers be prevailed on to retire into themselves,
1129 Text,   0,  142|            important questions, and preventing some very dangerous errors
1130 Text,   0,  119|           of thought. It hath set a price on the most trifling numerical
1131 Text,   0,  11 |         ridiculed notion of materia prima, to be met with in Aristotle
1132 Text,   0,  101|         ignorant and low, are drawn principally from this head, namely,
1133 Text,   0,  114|          See Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in Schol. Def.
1134 Text,   0,  124|        deducible from them, thought privileged from all examination. And
1135 Ded            |           MAJESTY'S~MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL~MY LORD,~ You will
1136 Text,   0,  72 |        though in the lowest rank of probability, that he can have for its
1137 Text,   0,  34 |      answering objections which may probably be made against the principles
1138 Text,   0,  121|           arithmetical theorems and problems which have not any use,
1139 Text,   0,  73 |          themselves. Afterwards, in process of time, men being convinced
1140 Text,   0,  152|             interpreted weakness or prodigality in the agent who produces
1141 Text,   0,  27 |             by the effects which it produceth. If any man shall doubt
1142 Text,   0,  150|          received among Christians, professing belief in the Holy Scriptures,
1143 Pre, Int,  17  |            who make the most avowed profession of it. When men consider
1144 Text,   0,  118|        error which is common to the professors of those sciences with the
1145 Ded            |            with the truest and most profound respect, on account of that
1146 Text,   0,  152|             plain that the splendid profusion of natural things should
1147 Text,   0,  44 |            The former are marks and prognostics of the latter. That the
1148 Text,   0,  118|       supposed throughout the whole progress of that science; and that
1149 Text,   0,  131|             useful in geometry, and promotes the benefit of human life,
1150 Text,   0,  151|          blood. "Verily" (saith the prophet) "thou art a God that hidest
1151 Text,   0,  73 |          motives or reasons, we may proportionably withdraw the assent that
1152 Text,   0,  153|          what occasions and in what proportions we are affected with pain
1153 Text,   0,  153|             our well-being. But our prospects are too narrow. We take,
1154 Text,   0,  103|             their being impelled or protruded towards each other? But,
1155 Text,   0,  103|            be termed "impulse," or "protrusion," as "attraction." Again,
1156 Text,   0,  101|                  101. The two great provinces of speculative science conversant
1157 Pre, Int,  24  |           view into the heavens and pry into the entrails of the
1158 Text,   0,  150|        covered over with corn." See Psalm 65. But, notwithstanding
1159 Pre, Pre       |           PREFACE~ WHAT I here make public has, after a long and scrupulous
1160 Text,   0,  43 |        Theory of Vision," which was published not long since, wherein
1161 Pre, Int,  21  |            knowledge which has been purchased by the joint labours of
1162 Pre, Int,  24  |          particular ideas, will not puzzle himself in vain to find
1163 Text,   0,  96 |   incredible number of disputes and puzzling questions, which have been
1164 Text,   0,  139|           be said that this is only quarreling at a word, and that, since
1165 Text,   0,  34 |         seem too prolix to those of quick apprehensions, I hope it
1166 Text,   0,  81 |           positive abstract idea of quiddity, entity, or existence. I
1167 Text,   0,  74 |      without any reluctance at all, quit the belief of what was solely
1168 Pre, Int,  12  |             in the passages we have quoted wherein there is mention
1169 Text,   0,  144|          that is by the stroke of a racket. Hence arise endless scruples
1170 Text,   0,  155|          giveth us bread to eat and raiment to put on"; that He is present
1171 Text,   0,  150|           He maketh lightnings with rain; He bringeth forth the wind
1172 Text,   0,  151|             blasted in the blossom, rains falling in desert places,
1173 Pre, Int,  20  |        There are other ends, as the raising of some passion, the exciting
1174 Text,   0,  72 |        reason, though in the lowest rank of probability, that he
1175 Pre, Int,  14  |            of their sugar-plums and rattles and the rest of their little
1176 Text,   0,  156|           said, I cannot inspire my readers with a pious sense of the
1177 Text,   0,  24 |           others of this, I know no readier or fairer way than to entreat
1178 Text,   0,  31 |             seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest; and in general
1179 Text,   0,  121|           kind they had occasion to reckon. Afterwards they found out
1180 Pre, Int,  11  |           that pass for men must be reckoned into their number. The reason
1181 Text,   0,  24 |            inculcate, and earnestly recommend to the attentive thoughts
1182 Pre, Int,  23  |            who have so emphatically recommended to others the laying aside
1183 Text,   0,  129|             for an infinite mind to reconcile contradictions; or as if
1184 Text,   0,  57 |       likeness, and not rather have recourse to Spirit which alone can
1185 Text,   0,  109|            nobler views, namely, to recreate and exalt the mind with
1186 Text,   0,  93 |            industry and artifice to reduce everything to it, methinks
1187 Text,   0,  109|           to affect an exactness in reducing each particular phenomenon
1188 Text,   0,  12 |          the mind considers it with reference to a yard, a foot, or an
1189 Text,   0,  31 |          That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that
1190 Text,   0,  137|              seems to need no other refutation than barely attending to
1191 Text,   0,  44 |           my purpose to examine and refute it in a discourse concerning
1192 Text,   0,  31 |       foresight which enables us to regulate our actions for the benefit
1193 Text,   0,  151|      All-wise Spirit, who fashions, regulates and sustains the whole system
1194 Pre, Pre       |             the sciences, who shall reject a truth that is capable
1195 Text,   0,  134|         mean parts of learning, are rejected as useless. But, how great
1196 Text,   0,  93 |            it, methinks they should rejoice to see them deprived of
1197 Text,   0,  92 |           all ages were needless to relate. All their monstrous systems
1198 Text,   0,  12 |     instance, it is plain, the unit relates to some particular combination
1199 Text,   0,  111|           same thing which is moved relatively may be really at rest; as
1200 Text,   0,  11 |        ideas. And here I cannot but remark how nearly the vague and
1201 Text,   0,  109|             them out in grammatical remarks on the language; so, in
1202 Pre, Pre       |             liable (nor could it be remedied) to gross misinterpretation,
1203 Pre, Int,  23  |             words. And, in order to remedy these evils, they advise
1204 Text,   0,  2  |              as willing, imagining, remembering, about them. This perceiving,
1205 Text,   0,  70 |           were so many occasions to remind Him when and what ideas
1206 Text,   0,  155|          Spirit should persist in a remorseless violation of His laws. We
1207 Pre, Int,  11  |            to embrace an opinion so remote from common sense as that
1208 Text,   0,  133|    incomprehensible"; if withal the removal of this Matter be not attended
1209 Text,   0,  92 |           this corner-stone is once removed, the whole fabric cannot
1210 Text,   0,  123|          and extreme subtilty which renders the study of Mathematics
1211 Text,   0,  24 |       contradiction. This is what I repeat and inculcate, and earnestly
1212 Text,   0,  121|           into use, wherein, by the repetition of a few characters or figures,
1213 Text,   0,  131|          the air. To this it may be replied that whatever is useful
1214 Text,   0,  8  |           ideas are the pictures or representations, be themselves perceivable
1215 Text,   0,  123|           have ever been esteemed a reproach to human reason, and withal
1216 Pre, Int,  20  |            his person, writings, or reputation should go before. Innumerable
1217 Text,   0,  1  |           by one name, and so to be reputed as one thing. Thus, for
1218 Pre, Pre       |            not suffer, I make it my request that the reader suspend
1219 Pre, Int,  13  |            For example, does it not require some pains and skill to
1220 Text,   0,  25 |     anything: neither can it be the resemblance or pattern of any active
1221 Text,   0,  11 |            by their own principles, resembles that antiquated and so much
1222 Text,   0,  18 |             bodies existing without resembling them. Hence, it is evident
1223 Pre, Int,  20  |         those who are accustomed to resign their judgment to authority
1224 Text,   0,  124|            less plain that I cannot resolve any one of my ideas into
1225 Text,   0,  102|             of late they are mostly resolved into mechanical causes,
1226 Pre, Int,  7   |           or compound idea the mind resolving into its simple, constituent
1227 Pre, Int,  18  |             a definition is thereby restrained to one certain signification.
1228 Text,   0,  25 |           are the effects of powers resulting from the configuration,
1229 Text,   0,  84 |           reader's understanding to resume the explication of it in
1230 Text,   0,  95 |              For example, about the Resurrection, how many scruples and objections
1231 Text,   0,  52 |            life, any phrases may be retained, so long as they excite
1232 Text,   0,  144|     philosophers be prevailed on to retire into themselves, and attentively
1233 Text,   0,  61 |           find the objection may be retorted with greater force on those
1234 Text,   0,  156|          the better dispose them to reverence and embrace the salutary
1235 Text,   0,  152|            on as an argument of the riches of His power.~
1236 Text,   0,  11 |         that antiquated and so much ridiculed notion of materia prima,
1237 Pre, Int,  16  |        demonstrated of a particular right-angled equicrural triangle, and
1238 Text,   0,  52 |        impossible, even in the most rigid, philosophic reasonings,
1239 Text,   0,  61 |             the utmost evidence and rigor of demonstration. Secondly,
1240 Text,   0,  133|             errors have taken their rise from those false Principles
1241 Text,   0,  137|           an idea or sensation have risen many absurd and heterodox
1242 Text,   0,  51 |           nevertheless say "the sun rises," "the sun sets," or "comes
1243 Text,   0,  104|         stone to the ground, in the rising of the sea towards the moon,
1244 Text,   0,  74 |       thereon; yet the prejudice is riveted so deeply in our thoughts,
1245 Text,   0,  45 |            all the furniture in the room is reduced to nothing, and
1246 Text,   0,  124|     transubstantiation. Ancient and rooted prejudices do often pass
1247 Text,   0,  61 |           end God should take those roundabout methods of effecting things
1248 Text,   0,  141|       impossible should survive the ruin of the tabernacle wherein
1249 Text,   0,  79 |            please without danger of running into a contradiction. You
1250 Text,   0,  82 |          sort of writings whatever, sacred or profane, which use those
1251 Text,   0,  149|         reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity
1252 Text,   0,  151|       compass of thought, all human sagacity and design, could serve
1253 Text,   0,  150|           though (if we may believe Saint Paul) "He be not far from
1254 Text,   0,  156|           reverence and embrace the salutary truths of the Gospel, which
1255 Text,   0,  101|            of water, every grain of sand, which it is beyond the
1256 Text,   0,  14 |      sweetness is not really in the sapid thing, because the thing
1257 Text,   0,  102|            that kind are not at all satisfactory. Which may be said in general
1258 Text,   0,  25 |        alteration in another. To be satisfied of the truth of this, there
1259 Pre, Int,  3   |            use of, will not fail to satisfy them. Upon the whole, I
1260 Text,   0,  152|       familiarity with impotent and saving mortals. In man indeed a
1261 Text,   0,  84 |             it be supposed that our Saviour did no more at the marriage-feast
1262 Text,   0,  68 |             is all that is meant by saying it is an inert, senseless,
1263 Text,   0,  99 |          care to understand what he says, will, if I mistake not,
1264 Text,   0,  81 |           may be to acknowledge the scantiness of my comprehension with
1265 Text,   0,  28 |              and vary and shift the scene as oft as I think fit. It
1266 Text,   0,  64 |           hid as it were behind the scenes, have a secret operation
1267 Text,   0,  40 |             for having any man turn sceptic and disbelieve his senses;
1268 Text,   0,  96 |        nature drags with it so many sceptical and impious notions, such
1269 Text,   0,  92 |         been raised all the impious schemes of Atheism and Irreligion.
1270 Text,   0,  114|           Principia Mathematica, in Schol. Def. VIII. For the water
1271 Pre, Int,  20  |           them. For example, when a schoolman tells me "Aristotle hath
1272 Pre, Pre       |        public has, after a long and scrupulous inquiry, seemed to me evidently
1273 Pre, Int,  4   |           embarrass the mind in its search after truth, do not spring
1274 Text,   0,  66 |          information. And it is the searching after and endeavouring to
1275 Pre, Int,  4   |    contradictions, into the several sects of philosophy; insomuch
1276 Text,   0,  31 |        warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the
1277 Text,   0,  152|             our taxing the waste of seeds and embryos, and accidental
1278                | seeming
1279 Text,   0,  106|           to fly asunder just as He sees convenient.~
1280 Text,   0,  63 |             they are to be used but seldom, otherwise there is a plain
1281 Text,   0,  88 |             we cannot attain to any self-evident or demonstrative knowledge
1282 Text,   0,  93 |          and instead thereof make a self-existent, stupid, unthinking substance
1283 Text,   0,  32 |     thoughts to Him, that it rather sends them wandering after second
1284 Text,   0,  151|        Himself from the eyes of the sensual and lazy, who will not be
1285 Text,   0,  52 |            they excite in us proper sentiments, or dispositions to act
1286 Pre, Int,  24  |            ideas he would consider, separating from them all that dress
1287 Pre, Int,  9   |            same precision or mental separation, attain abstract ideas of
1288 Text,   0,  85 |          appear more plainly in the sequel.~
1289 Pre, Int,  1   |            enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness
1290 Text,   0,  60 |            demanded to what purpose serves that curious organization
1291 Text,   0,  51 |            the sun rises," "the sun sets," or "comes to the meridian";
1292 Text,   0,  79 |          that twice two is equal to seven, so long as you declare
1293 Text,   0,  51 |                                 51. Seventhly, it will upon this be demanded
1294 Text,   0,  129|          pains to go through with a severe examination of those principles
1295 Text,   0,  152|            rest of the creation, as shades in a picture serve to set
1296 Text,   0,  47 |      according to them infinite and shapeless, and it is the mind that
1297 Pre, Int,  25  |       designs to read the following sheets, I entreat him to make my
1298 Text,   0,  114|             utmost unmoved walls or shell thereof to be the place
1299 Text,   0,  28 |           at pleasure, and vary and shift the scene as oft as I think
1300 Text,   0,  154|            Wisdom and Goodness that shine throughout the Economy of
1301 Text,   0,  154|           what truth is there which shineth so strongly on the mind
1302 Text,   0,  114|            to it varies. A man in a ship may be said to be quiescent
1303 Text,   0,  60 |            not vegetables grow, and shoot forth leaves of blossoms,
1304 Pre, Int,  5   |        clearest, and that he who is short-sighted will be obliged to draw
1305 Text,   0,  150|             and maketh it soft with showers: He blesseth the springing
1306 Text,   0,  9  |           from what we have already shown, that extension, figure,
1307 Pre, Int,  16  |          length. Which sufficiently shows that the right angle might
1308 Text,   0,  90 |            other mind; thus, when I shut my eyes, the things I saw
1309 Text,   0,  127|     triangle on paper, and take one side not above an inch, for example,
1310 Pre, Int,  4   |   Principles of Human Knowledge, to sift and examine them on all
1311 Text,   0,  83 | inconsistent with the right use and significancy of language, and that discourse,
1312 Text,   0,  139|         that, since the immediately significations of other names are by common
1313 Text,   0,  133|           and Atheists are for ever silenced upon supposing only spirits
1314 Text,   0,  111|            sense, remains in itself similar and immovable; and relative
1315 Pre, Int,  8   |      another; it considers apart or singles out by itself that which
1316 Pre, Int,  7   |            to consider each quality singly, or abstracted from those
1317 Pre, Pre       |           characters of novelty and singularity which some of the following
1318 Pre, Int,  1   |           were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn Scepticism.~
1319 Text,   0,  50 |                                 50. Sixthly, you will say there have
1320 Text,   0,  126|     innumerable others of different sizes; or, in other words, the
1321 Text,   0,  60 |             which being mended by a skilful hand all is right again?
1322 Text,   0,  31 |         sense. That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms
1323 Text,   0,  127|      distinction in their thoughts, slide into a belief that the small
1324 Text,   0,  14 |          acknowledged, shall appear slower without any alteration in
1325 Text,   0,  146|        exquisite contrivance of the smaller parts of creation, together
1326 Text,   0,  130|     infinitely, can never equal the smallest given extension. And yet
1327 Text,   0,  1  |           as to quantity or degree. Smelling furnishes me with odours;
1328 Text,   0,  3  |           an odour, that is, it was smelt; there was a sound, that
1329 Ded            |         pleased to show towards our Society gave me hopes you would
1330 Text,   0,  95 |      objections have been raised by Socinians and others? But do not the
1331 Text,   0,  38 |             senses. The hardness or softness, the colour, taste, warmth,
1332 Text,   0,  150|       ascribed to the immediate and sole operation of God? I answer,
1333 Text,   0,  74 |         quit the belief of what was solely grounded thereon; yet the
1334 Text,   0,  61 |           nature, which I could not solve by the foregoing principles,
1335 Text,   0,  45 |          longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them. Upon
1336 Pre, Int,  3   |           more bountifully with the sons of men than to give them
1337 Pre, Int,  1   |           becoming Sceptics. But no sooner do we depart from sense
1338 Text,   0,  148|            open our eyes to see the Sovereign Lord of all things, with
1339 Text,   0,  31 |          and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the
1340 Pre, Int,  24  |         always stand for ideas will spare himself the labour of looking
1341 Pre, Int,  20  |             of language without the speaker's designing them for marks
1342 Text,   0,  121|            some who, deluded by the specious show of discovering abstracted
1343 Text,   0,  84 |           ideas in the minds of the spectators? And, can it be supposed
1344 Text,   0,  152|         Hence, it is plain that the splendid profusion of natural things
1345 Text,   0,  100|          little contributed towards spoiling the most useful parts of
1346 Text,   0,  36 |       evident that every vegetable, star, mineral, and in general
1347 Text,   0,  14 |       different texture at the same station, they appear various, and
1348 Text,   0,  14 |           the same eye at different stations, or eyes of a different
1349 Text,   0,  150|            unthinking deputy in His stead, though (if we may believe
1350 Text,   0,  55 |            never so universally and steadfastly adhered to, yet this is
1351 Text,   0,  30 |   imagination; they have likewise a steadiness, order, and coherence, and
1352 Text,   0,  151|          general rules, and after a steady and consistent manner; which
1353 Text,   0,  103|    attraction." Again, the parts of steel we see cohere firmly together,
1354 Pre, Int,  19  |             requisite that in every step each letter suggest to your
1355 Text,   0,  76 |            not dispute. But, if you stick to the notion of an unthinking
1356 Text,   0,  81 |            determine by my own few, stinted narrow inlets of perception,
1357 Pre, Int,  10  |           or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked, a tall, or
1358 Text,   0,  5  |            For can there be a nicer strain of abstraction than to distinguish
1359 Pre, Int,  6   |             He who is not a perfect stranger to the writings and disputes
1360 Text,   0,  113|        motion as he walks along the streets, the stones he passes over
1361 Pre, Int,  19  |          not necessary (even in the strictest reasonings) significant
1362 Text,   0,  151|       motions and various phenomena strike on our senses, the hand
1363 Text,   0,  73 |    existence without the mind, they stripped this substratum or material
1364 Text,   0,  144|       necessarily as that is by the stroke of a racket. Hence arise
1365 Text,   0,  155|             holy fear, which is the strongest incentive to Virtue, and
1366 Text,   0,  88 |          after all their labour and struggle of thought, they are forced
1367 Text,   0,  107|          nature should not still be studied, and observations and experiments
1368 Text,   0,  149|            is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men,
1369 Text,   0,  130|            infinitesimals is itself subdivisible into an infinity of other
1370 Pre, Pre       |     attention and thought which the subject-matter shall seem to deserve. For,
1371 Pre, Int,  20  |      opinion with the deference and submission which custom has annexed
1372 Text,   0,  120|           the science of numbers is subordinate to practice, and how jejune
1373 Text,   0,  130|           order, denying all of the subsequent orders, are obliged to maintain.~
1374 Text,   0,  122|           or original intention and subserviency of language, should spend
1375 Text,   0,  133|      perceived, and allowing them a subsistance of their own out of the
1376 Text,   0,  86 |            thought that real things subsisted without the mind, and that
1377 Text,   0,  34 |     principles all that is real and substantial in nature is banished out
1378 Text,   0,  116|             apt to think every noun substantive stands for a distinct idea
1379 Text,   0,  150|             great distance off, and substitute some blind unthinking deputy
1380 Text,   0,  123|           all that nice and extreme subtilty which renders the study
1381 Text,   0,  98 |          number of ideas or actions succeeding each other in that same
1382 Text,   0,  98 |        nothing, abstracted from the sucession of ideas in our minds, it
1383 Text,   0,  88 |             external," "exist, "and such-like, signifying we know not
1384 Pre, Int,  14  |             prate together of their sugar-plums and rattles and the rest
1385 Text,   0,  43 |             it; but that it is only suggested to our thoughts by certain
1386 Pre, Int,  11  |           of which it indifferently suggests to the mind. For example,
1387 Text,   0,  52 |    regulated by custom, language is suited to the received opinions,
1388 Text,   0,  121|           we may be able rightly to sum up, divide, and proportion
1389 Text,   0,  121|          any part of the particular sums signified by them; and,
1390 Text,   0,  148|            exhibited to our view in sundry distinct collections, serve
1391 Text,   0,  155|            and dreadful negligence, sunk into Atheism. Since it is
1392 Text,   0,  151|            immediately actuated and superintended by a Spirit of infinite
1393 Text,   0,  155|    countries, are, merely through a supine and dreadful negligence,
1394 Pre, Int,  17  |          small portion of them does supply any real benefit to mankind,
1395 Text,   0,  61 |         sect. 25. Whoever therefore supposes them to exist (allowing
1396 Pre, Int,  14  |           it is men are employed in surmounting that difficulty, and furnishing
1397 Text,   0,  63 |             of nature are proper to surprise and awe men into an acknowledgement
1398 Text,   0,  149|           men, who, though they are surrounded with such clear manifestations
1399 Text,   0,  141|         naturally impossible should survive the ruin of the tabernacle
1400 Pre, Pre       |             request that the reader suspend his judgment till he has
1401 Text,   0,  109|           for, God's glory, and the sustentation and comfort of ourselves
1402 Text,   0,  124|          man may not be prepared to swallow.~
1403 Pre, Int,  17  |            a more wide and extended sway over the thoughts of speculative
1404 Text,   0,  103|            to the earth, or the sea swells towards the moon, may to
1405 Text,   0,  14 |            ideas in the mind become swifter, the motion, it is acknowledged,
1406 Text,   0,  141|             survive the ruin of the tabernacle wherein it is enclosed.
1407 Text,   0,  118|         expressly mentioned, though tacitly supposed throughout the
1408 Pre, Int,  14  |      trinkets, till they have first tacked together numberless inconsistencies,
1409 Pre, Pre       |       particularly to those who are tainted with Scepticism, or want
1410 Pre, Int,  10  |             white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight, or a crooked,
1411 Text,   0,  152|         well to examine whether our taxing the waste of seeds and embryos,
1412 Text,   0,  30 |          learn by experience, which teaches us that such and such ideas
1413 Text,   0,  123|        Mathematics so difficult and tedious. Hence, if we can make it
1414 Pre, Int,  20  |           example, when a schoolman tells me "Aristotle hath said
1415 Text,   0,  125|  mathematicians are all so fond and tenacious of that doctrine.~
1416 Text,   0,  55 |            embraced with the utmost tenaciousness, by the unreflecting (which
1417 Pre, Int,  14  |          found a hard task for that tender age. Is it not a hard thing
1418 Text,   0,  52 |            sense from the scope and tenor and connexion of a discourse,
1419 Text,   0,  58 |                                 58. Tenthly, it will be objected that
1420 Text,   0,  104|            by the attraction of the terraqueous globe towards the moon,
1421 Text,   0,  30 |      connexion whereof sufficiently testifies the wisdom and benevolence
1422 Text,   0,  40 |            But I do not see how the testimony of sense can be alleged
1423 Text,   0,  64 |   appearances which are seen on the theatre of the world, being themselves
1424 Text,   0,  120|      numeral names and figures. The theories therefore in Arithmetic.
1425 Text,   0,  43 |             my "Essay towards a New Theory of Vision," which was published
1426 Text,   0,  141|            soul of man to be only a thin vital flame, or system of
1427 Text,   0,  27 |             other as well as from a third idea of Substance or Being
1428 Text,   0,  12 |      extension is one, or three, or thirty-six, according as the mind considers
1429 Text,   0,  97 |        motion by which he is to get thither, he finds not the least
1430 Ded            |             TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE~THOMAS, EARL OF PEMBROKE, &c.,~
1431 Text,   0,  96 |          questions, which have been thorns in the sides of divines
1432                | thou
1433 Pre, Int,  20  |             is? Or is not the being threatened with danger sufficient to
1434 Text,   0,  152|            mortals. In man indeed a thrifty management of those things
1435 Pre, Int,  17  | consideration of all this is apt to throw them into a despondency
1436 Text,   0,  85 |             of speculation has been thrown away, are entirely banished
1437 Text,   0,  151|          thou art a God that hidest thyself." Isaiah, 45. 15. But, though
1438 Pre, Int,  11  |           They are the best of them tied up within those narrow bounds,
1439 Text,   0,  82 |    evidently suppose the reality of timber and stone, mountains and
1440 Text,   0,  148|       direct our view, we do at all times and in all places perceive
1441 Pre, Int,  14  |         that there is need of great toil and labour of the mind,
1442 Text,   0,  148|            places perceive manifest tokens of the Divinity: everything
1443 Text,   0,  1  |             in all their variety of tone and composition. And as
1444 Text,   0,  52 |          the bent and genius of the tongue we speak, as never to give
1445 Text,   0,  26 |      excited, others are changed or totally disappear. There is therefore
1446 Text,   0,  105|           very probable conjectures touching things that may have happened
1447 Pre, Int,  21  |      necessary. And lastly, we have traced them to the source from
1448 Text,   0,  154|      sufficiently admire the divine traces of Wisdom and Goodness that
1449 Text,   0,  118|            inquiry concerning those transcendental maxims which influence all
1450 Text,   0,  126|             by a very usual figure) transferred to the sign, and thence,
1451 Pre, Pre       |          over, yet, if this be done transiently, it is very probable my
1452 Text,   0,  111|            Motion is said to be the translation of a body from absolute
1453 Text,   0,  124|            Gentile to the belief of transubstantiation. Ancient and rooted prejudices
1454 Text,   0,  150|           forth the wind out of his treasures." Jerem. 10. 13. "He turneth
1455 Pre, Int,  2   |           man being finite, when it treats of things which partake
1456 Text,   0,  22 |           or unperceived. This easy trial may perhaps make you see
1457 Pre, Int,  16  |         consider a figure merely as triangular, without attending to the
1458 Pre, Int,  14  |            the rest of their little trinkets, till they have first tacked
1459 Text,   0,  5  |        divided. Thus, I imagine the trunk of a human body without
1460 Text,   0,  22 |           your own thoughts, and so trying whether you can conceive
1461 Text,   0,  71 |             sound which is called a tune, though they who hear the
1462 Text,   0,  40 |          are not for having any man turn sceptic and disbelieve his
1463 Text,   0,  84 |              rod? was it not really turned into a serpent; or was there
1464 Text,   0,  150|      treasures." Jerem. 10. 13. "He turneth the shadow of death into
1465 Text,   0,  67 |                          67. In the twelfth place, it may perhaps be
1466 Text,   0,  79 |          may say, for example, that twice two is equal to seven, so
1467 Text,   0,  19 |           since they own themselves unable to comprehend in what manner
1468 Ded            |          one that is not altogether unacquainted with the present state of
1469 Text,   0,  14 |         because the thing remaining unaltered the sweetness is changed
1470 Text,   0,  95 |          ideas, and then their most unanswerable objections come to nothing.~
1471 Text,   0,  52 |     speculative sense. Nay, this is unavoidable, since, propriety being
1472 Text,   0,  47 |    corporeal substance, yet it will unavoidably follow, from the principles
1473 Text,   0,  151|       expense of thought, yet to an unbiased and attentive mind nothing
1474 Text,   0,  59 |          often make, I will not say uncertain conjectures, but sure and
1475 Text,   0,  23 |          you conceive them existing unconceived or unthought of, which is
1476 Text,   0,  155|           neglecting they should be unconvinced of such an evident and momentous
1477 Pre, Int,  1   |           are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties,
1478 Text,   0,  50 |         corpuscular philosophy, and undermine those mechanical principles
1479 Pre, Int,  25  |          considering his own naked, undisguised ideas.~
1480 Text,   0,  27 |             A spirit is one simple, undivided, active being - as it perceives
1481 Text,   0,  10 |       matter. This they take for an undoubted truth, which they can demonstrate
1482 Text,   0,  132|          said that several theorems undoubtedly true are discovered by methods
1483 Text,   0,  153|          for the mixture of pain or uneasiness which is in the world, pursuant
1484 Text,   0,  118|             effects of those secret unexamined errors are diffused through
1485 Pre, Int,  13  |         easy to children or the yet unexercised mind as particular ones.
1486 Text,   0,  79 |        though indeed to go about to unfold the meaning or adhere to
1487 Pre, Int,  20  |             it, as I think does not unfrequently happen in the familiar use
1488 Text,   0,  62 |           thing, in discovering the uniformity there is in the production
1489 Text,   0,  105|         grounded on the analogy and uniformness observed in the production
1490 Pre, Int,  15  |            in the manner premised - universality, so far as I can comprehend,
1491                | Unless
1492 Text,   0,  28 |            another. This making and unmaking of ideas doth very properly
1493 Text,   0,  114|           as finite, and the utmost unmoved walls or shell thereof to
1494 Pre, Int,  6   |          abuse of Language. But the unravelling this matter leads me in
1495 Text,   0,  45 |           he will acknowledge it is unreasonable for him to stand up in defence
1496 Text,   0,  131|          does still remain firm and unshaken on our principles; that
1497 Text,   0,  107|           they were originally with unspeakable wisdom contrived, should
1498 Text,   0,  36 |          these are faint, weak, and unsteady in respect of others they
1499 Text,   0,  151|           Agent. Besides, monsters, untimely births, fruits blasted in
1500 Pre, Pre       |           me evidently true and not unuseful to be known - particularly