Posthumous WorksW.B., 1706 - 336 páginas |
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Página 26
... we pleafe , yet we may truly fay Nature gives us but the Seeds of it ; we are born to be , if we please , rational Crea- tures , but ' tis Ufe and Exercise only that makes makes us fo , and we are indeed fo no 26 Of the CONDUCT of.
... we pleafe , yet we may truly fay Nature gives us but the Seeds of it ; we are born to be , if we please , rational Crea- tures , but ' tis Ufe and Exercise only that makes makes us fo , and we are indeed fo no 26 Of the CONDUCT of.
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... pleases him . Bias . $ 13 . 13. Next to these we may place those who fuffer their own natural Tempers and Paffions they are poffefs'd with to influence their Judgments , efpecially of Men and Things that may any way relate to their ...
... pleases him . Bias . $ 13 . 13. Next to these we may place those who fuffer their own natural Tempers and Paffions they are poffefs'd with to influence their Judgments , efpecially of Men and Things that may any way relate to their ...
Página 100
... please ) is receiv'd for good . There are fo many ways of Fallacy , fuch Arts of giving Colours , Ap- pearances and Refemblances by this Court- dreffer , the Phanfie , that he who is not wa- ry to admit nothing but Truth it felf , very ...
... please ) is receiv'd for good . There are fo many ways of Fallacy , fuch Arts of giving Colours , Ap- pearances and Refemblances by this Court- dreffer , the Phanfie , that he who is not wa- ry to admit nothing but Truth it felf , very ...
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... please . To these latter one may for anfwer apply the Pro- verb , Ufe Legs and have Legs . No body knows what ftrength of Parts he has ' till he has tried them . And of the Under- standing one may most truly fay , that its Force is ...
... please . To these latter one may for anfwer apply the Pro- verb , Ufe Legs and have Legs . No body knows what ftrength of Parts he has ' till he has tried them . And of the Under- standing one may most truly fay , that its Force is ...
Página 161
... pleases to difco- ver .. Tell me wherein this discovery lies , befides barely making me fee them , and you explain the manner of my having Ideas : Otherwife all that has been faid amounts to no more but this , that I have those Ideas ...
... pleases to difco- ver .. Tell me wherein this discovery lies , befides barely making me fee them , and you explain the manner of my having Ideas : Otherwife all that has been faid amounts to no more but this , that I have those Ideas ...
Términos y frases comunes
Affent againſt anfwer Argument becauſe befides believe beſt Bodies Buſineſs cafe Caufe cauſe cerning Colour conceive confefs Confequences Confideration defire Demonftration derſtanding Difcourfe difcover diftinct Effence elfe elſe Extenfion fafe faid falfe Falfhood fame farther feems feen felf felves ferve fettled feveral fhall fhew fhould fide fignifie fince firft firſt folid fome fomething Force to promote ftand ftate fuch fuffer fufficient full Affurance fuppofe fure give grounds himſelf Houſe Ideas imbrace infinite judge Knowledge laft leaſt lefs ligion Magiftrate Mind Miracles Modification moft moſt muft muſt Nature neceffary never Notions obferve occafion Opinions perceive perfuaded Perfuafion Phanfie pleaſes pofitive prefent promote the true proof purpoſe Queſtion reafon reft reprefent ſay ſee Senfation Senfe Soul ſtand Subftance thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe Thoughts tion true Religion Truth ufe Force Underſtanding univerfal uſe vifible words worfe
Pasajes populares
Página 18 - ... and those who excel in either of them never purposely set themselves to the study of it as an art to be learnt.
Página 7 - The first is of those who seldom reason at all, but do and think according to the example of others, whether parents, neighbours, ministers, or who else they are pleased to make choice of to have an implicit faith in, for the ' saving of themselves the pains and trouble of thinking and examining for themselves.
Página 17 - Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain endeavour to produce like motions in the members not used to them, and it will require length of time and long practice to attain but some degrees of a like ability.
Página 30 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Página 17 - As it is in the body, so it is in the mind ; practice makes it what it is ; and most even of those excellencies which are looked on as natural endowments, will be found, when examined into more narrowly, to be the product of exercise, and to be raised to that pitch only by repeated actions.
Página 17 - The legs of a dancingmaster, and the fingers of a musician, fall, as it were, naturally without thought or pains into regular and admirable motions. Bid them change their parts, and they will in vain...
Página 228 - If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father...
Página 19 - Nobody is made any thing by hearing of rules, or laying them up in his memory ; practice must settle the habit of doing without reflecting on the rule, and you may as well hope to make a good painter or musician extempore by a lecture and instruction in the arts of music and painting, as a coherent thinker, .or a strict reasoner, by a set of rules, showing him wherein right reasoning consists.
Página 226 - That no mission can be looked on to be divine, that delivers any thing derogating from the honour of the one, only, true, invisible God, or inconsistent with natural religion and the rules of morality: because God having discovered to men the unity and majesty of his eternal Godhead, and the truths of natural religion and morality by the light of reason, he cannot be supposed to back the contrary by revelation; for that would be to destroy the evidence and the use of reason, without which men cannot...
Página 4 - Temples have their sacred images, and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all universally pay a ready submission.