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1 I, 0, 5 | subdividing and balancing of power; the lawyer more method 2 II, 0, 13 | not only escapes all human power and authority, but is not 3 II, 0, 13 | is any thing beyond the power of thought, except what 4 II, 0, 13 | and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no 5 IV, I, 26 | distinctly the action of that power, which produces any single 6 IV, II, 29 | that wonderful force or power, which would carry on a 7 IV, II, 29(*)| The word, Power, is here used in a loose 8 V, I, 35 | knowledge of the secret power by which the one object 9 V, II, 39 | senses, it has unlimited power of mixing, compounding, 10 V, II, 39 | horse; but it is not in our power to believe that such an 11 VII, I, 48 | reflection; nor is it in our power to recal the original object, 12 VII, I, 49 | uncertain, than those of power, force, energy or necessary 13 VII, I, 50 | therefore, with the idea of power or necessary connexion, 14 VII, I, 50 | instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion; 15 VII, I, 50 | can suggest the idea of power or necessary connexion.~ 16 VII, I, 50 | result from it. But were the power or energy of any cause discoverable 17 VII, I, 50 | qualities, discover any power or energy, or give us ground 18 VII, I, 50 | uninterrupted succession; but the power of force, which actuates 19 VII, I, 50 | therefore, that the idea of power can be derived from the 20 VII, I, 50 | bodies ever discover any power, which can be the original 21 VII, I, 50(*)| Locke, in his chapter of power, says that, finding from 22 VII, I, 50(*)| there must somewhere be a power capable of producing them, 23 VII, I, 50(*)| reasoning at the idea of power. But no reasoning can ever 24 VII, I, 51 | senses, give us no idea of power or necessary connexion, 25 VII, I, 51 | moment conscious of internal power; while we feel, that, by 26 VII, I, 51 | Hence we acquire the idea of power or energy; and are certain, 27 VII, I, 51 | beings are possessed of power. This idea, then, is an 28 VII, I, 52 | from any apparent energy or power in the cause, which connects 29 VII, I, 52 | consciousness we perceived any power or energy in the will, we 30 VII, I, 52 | will, we must know this power; we must know its connexion 31 VII, I, 52 | were we conscious of a power in the former case, not 32 VII, I, 52 | fully acquainted with the power or force, by which it operates, 33 VII, I, 52 | is as much conscious of power to command such limbs, as 34 VII, I, 52 | perfect health is conscious of power to actuate any member which 35 VII, I, 52 | we ever conscious of any power. We learn the influence 36 VII, I, 52 | the immediate object of power in voluntary motion, is 37 VII, I, 52 | certain proof, that the power, by which this whole operation 38 VII, I, 52 | produced. But if the original power were felt, it must be known: 39 VII, I, 52 | must be known; since all power is relative to its effect. 40 VII, I, 52 | effect be not known, the power cannot be known nor felt. 41 VII, I, 52 | can we be conscious of a power to move our limbs, when 42 VII, I, 52 | limbs, when we have no such power; but only that to move certain 43 VII, I, 52 | assurance; that our idea of power is not copied from any sentiment 44 VII, I, 52 | sentiment or consciousness of power within ourselves, when we 45 VII, I, 52 | natural events: But the power or energy by which this 46 VII, I, 52(*)| force, and call up all our power, this gives us the idea 47 VII, I, 52(*)| us the idea of force and power. It is this nisus, or strong 48 VII, I, 52(*)| But, first, we attribute power to a vast number of objects, 49 VII, I, 52(*)| accurate precise idea of power, enters very much into that 50 VII, I, 53 | that we are conscious of a power or energy in our own minds, 51 VII, I, 53 | allowed, that, when we know a power, we know that very circumstance 52 VII, I, 53 | nothing: Which implies a power so great, that it may seem, 53 VII, I, 53 | must be owned, that such a power is not felt, nor known, 54 VII, I, 53 | operation is performed, the power by which it is produced, 55 VII, I, 53 | boundaries, or show why the power is deficient in one case, 56 VII, I, 53 | experience? Where then is the power, of which we pretend to 57 VII, I, 53 | unknown to us, renders the power or energy of the will equally 58 VII, I, 53 | in it like this creative power, by which it raises from 59 VII, I, 55 | every effect is not any power or force in nature, but 60 VII, I, 55 | totally ignorant of the power on which depends the mutual 61 VII, I, 55 | no less ignorant of that power on which depends the operation 62 VII, I, 55 | erroneously attribute to our own power and efficacy. Nor do philosophers 63 VII, I, 56 | that nothing possesses any power but by his concession: They 64 VII, I, 56 | created beings, of every power, in order to render their 65 VII, I, 56 | celebrate. It argues surely more power in the Deity to delegate 66 VII, I, 56 | delegate a certain degree of power to inferior creatures than 67 VII, I, 57 | or consciousness of this power in ourselves. We have no 68 VII, I, 57(*)| have any idea of the inert power; in the same manner as, 69 VII, I, 57(*)| comprehending that active power. It was never the meaning 70 VII, I, 57(*)| subordinate and derived power. By what means has it become 71 II, 0, 58 | sought in vain for an idea of power or necessary connexion in 72 II, 0, 58 | comprehend any force or power by which the cause operates, 73 II, 0, 58 | no idea of connexion or power at all, and that these words 74 II, 0, 59 | connexion between them; some power in the one, by which it 75 II, 0, 59 | which we form the idea of power or necessary connexion. 76 II, 0, 60(*)| definitions, the idea of power is relative as much as that 77 II, 0, 60(*)| determined, we call that its power: And accordingly, it is 78 II, 0, 60(*)| effect is the measure of the power. But if they had any idea 79 II, 0, 60(*)| if they had any idea of power, as it is in itself, why 80 II, 0, 60 | use of the words, Force, Power, Energy, &c., which every 81 II, 0, 61 | can suggest any idea of power or necessary connexion. 82 VIII, I, 70 | no certain or determinate power to produce particular sentiments, 83 VIII, I, 73 | then, we can only mean a power of acting or not acting, 84 VIII, I, 74 | and means not any real power which has anywhere a being 85 VIII, II, 81 | hitherto to exceed all the power of philosophy. Happy, if 86 IX, 0, 94 | of instinct or mechanical power, that acts in us unknown 87 XI, 0, 115 | possess that precise degree of power, intelligence, and benevolence, 88 XI, 0, 116 | cause, which controlled the power and benevolence of Jupiter, 89 XII, I, 128 | of argument, exceeds the power of all human capacity.~ 90 XII, III, 139 | anything, but the strong power of natural instinct, could