Familiar Letters: Between Mr. John Locke, and Several of His Friends. In which are Explain'd, His Notions in His Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and in Some of His Other Works. The Fourth Edition. To which is Added, the Life and Character of Mr. John LockeF. Noble, 1742 - 424 pages |
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actio actionem adeo againſt aliis Anſwer apud autem becauſe Book bumble Servant cafu cujus defire Dublin Effay effe enim epiftola Eſſay etiam falutes fame fatis Favour feems felf femper fent fhall fhew fhould fibi fince firſt fome Friend fuam fuch fuis funt hæc hanc himſelf homo illa illi illius illo illud illum inter ipfi JOHN LOCKE judicium laft Letter libertatem LIMBORCH JOANNES LOCKE LOCKE PHILIPPUS à mihi moft MOLYNEUX moſt muſt nifi nihil Obfervations Occafion omnes omnia otium Perfon PHILIPPO à LIMBORCH pleaſed poffe poffit poffum poteft prefent qu'il quæ quam quia quibus quid quod Reafon recte S. P. D. Vir ampliffime ſelf tamen tantum Thing thofe thoſe Thoughts tibi tuæ tuam Tui amantiffimum tuum Underſtanding uſeful Vale vel non vero verum videtur volendi voluntatis
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Page 58 - I think every one, according to what way Providence has placed him in, is bound to labour for the public good, as far as he is able, or else he has no right to eat.
Page 32 - Not. For though he has obtained the experience of how a globe, how a cube, affects his touch ; yet he has not yet attained the experience, that what affects his touch so or so, must affect his sight so or so; or that a protuberant angle in the cube, that pressed his hand unequally, shall appear to his eye as it does in the cube.
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Page 35 - I now publish is but what was contained in several letters to a friend of mine, the greatest part whereof were writ out of Holland. How your brother came to know of it I have clearly forgot, and do not remember that ever I communicated it to any body there. These letters, or at least some of them, have been seen by some of my acquaintance here, who would needs persuade me...
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Page 150 - I did not then think that he was so near me as within the bounds of this city ; but I find since that he is come over hither, and have had the favour of a visit from him. I now understand, as I intimated to you, that he was born in this country; but that he hath been a great while abroad, and his education was for some time under the great Le Clerc.
Page 150 - Spirit that reigns here, which begins already to mew it felf againft him, and, I believe, will increafe daily ; for I find the Clergy alarmed, to a mighty Degree, againft him : And laft Sunday he had his Welcome to this City, by hearing himfelf harangued againft out of the Pulpit, by a Prelate of this Country.