The Life of John Locke, Volume 2H. S. King, 1876 |
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... less sadly expressed his temper , or certain phases of his temper , at this time . What was his position in this gloomy autumn of 1683 ? Sixteen years before he had broken through his plans of work in order to join with Shaftesbury in ...
... less sadly expressed his temper , or certain phases of his temper , at this time . What was his position in this gloomy autumn of 1683 ? Sixteen years before he had broken through his plans of work in order to join with Shaftesbury in ...
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... less than a year after Locke , he succeeded to the pastorship of the church in 1668 , and to the chief professorship in the seminary in 1669. By his learning and worth he made the small body of the remonstrants famous among all the ...
... less than a year after Locke , he succeeded to the pastorship of the church in 1668 , and to the chief professorship in the seminary in 1669. By his learning and worth he made the small body of the remonstrants famous among all the ...
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... less noteworthy here than in the more northern and out - of - the - way parts . He spent some days at Utrecht , and went thence to Amsterdam on the 30th of September , though only to go on the 5th of October to Leyden , which to him was ...
... less noteworthy here than in the more northern and out - of - the - way parts . He spent some days at Utrecht , and went thence to Amsterdam on the 30th of September , though only to go on the 5th of October to Leyden , which to him was ...
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... less protected by artificial barriers from inclement weather than now , were also evidently attractive to him . In the sober old town , which in Holland was surpassed only by Leyden as a seat of learning , and in the house of Mynheer ...
... less protected by artificial barriers from inclement weather than now , were also evidently attractive to him . In the sober old town , which in Holland was surpassed only by Leyden as a seat of learning , and in the house of Mynheer ...
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... less heartily in his interests . The most active of these - or at any rate , through that strange concurrence of accidents or plots which just then made a quaker the most influential courtier of the catholic monarch , the most capable ...
... less heartily in his interests . The most active of these - or at any rate , through that strange concurrence of accidents or plots which just then made a quaker the most influential courtier of the catholic monarch , the most capable ...
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Page 170 - ... a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man.
Page 172 - Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.
Page 105 - ... well he knows that it is long enough to reach the bottom at such places as are necessary to direct his voyage, and caution him against running upon shoals that may ruin him. Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
Page 441 - As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.
Page 175 - The only way whereby any one divests himself of his natural liberty, and puts on the bonds of civil society, is by agreeing with other men to join and unite into a community, for their comfortable, safe, and peaceable living one amongst another, in a secure enjoyment of their properties, and a greater security against any that are not of it.
Page 113 - ... the dominion of man in this little world of his own understanding, being much-what the same as it is in the great world, of visible things, wherein his power, however managed by art and skill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his hand but can do nothing towards the making the least particle of new matter, or destroying one atom of what is already in being.
Page 130 - I feel pleasure and pain: can any of these be more evident to me, than my own existence? if I doubt of all other things, that very doubt makes me perceive my own existence, and will not suffer me to doubt of that.
Page 172 - The labour of his body and the work of his hands we may say are properly his. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath provided and left it in, he hath mixed his labour with, and joined to it something that is his own, and thereby makes it his property.
Page 111 - The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid.
Page 262 - The studies which he sets him upon are but as it were the exercises of his faculties and employment of his time, to keep him from sauntering and idleness, to teach him application and accustom him to take pains, and to give him some little taste of what his own industry must perfect.