The Life of John Locke, Volume 2H. S. King, 1876 |
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... sort . " Here are two protestant nunneries . One belongs to the freemen of the town , and their daughters only are admitted . These are fourteen . They live altogether in one house . The oldest , of course , is the abbess . They have ...
... sort . " Here are two protestant nunneries . One belongs to the freemen of the town , and their daughters only are admitted . These are fourteen . They live altogether in one house . The oldest , of course , is the abbess . They have ...
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... sort of literature which grew out of the varied influences of Descartes and Spinoza . He soon broke loose from Descartes , but he never went as far as Spinoza . The halting - place which he occupied between the two , and from which he ...
... sort of literature which grew out of the varied influences of Descartes and Spinoza . He soon broke loose from Descartes , but he never went as far as Spinoza . The halting - place which he occupied between the two , and from which he ...
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... sort . He rightly held that no man has a claim to the privileges of society who does not recognise the necessity of compliance with the fundamental law of society - the law of good faith . The low morality of people in his day unfor ...
... sort . He rightly held that no man has a claim to the privileges of society who does not recognise the necessity of compliance with the fundamental law of society - the law of good faith . The low morality of people in his day unfor ...
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... sort of happiness in the coming year , and , if you desire that the year should be a happy one to me , love me all through it . " " I know your feeling towards me too well , " he said in another letter , " to have any doubt about it ...
... sort of happiness in the coming year , and , if you desire that the year should be a happy one to me , love me all through it . " " I know your feeling towards me too well , " he said in another letter , " to have any doubt about it ...
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... sort of banker for him all through his stay there . " Bank money is here at 43 , " Locke wrote from Amsterdam in February , 1687-8 . " If you can secure so much for it there , draw on Dr. Peter Guenellon for 15,000 guilders in bank ...
... sort of banker for him all through his stay there . " Bank money is here at 43 , " Locke wrote from Amsterdam in February , 1687-8 . " If you can secure so much for it there , draw on Dr. Peter Guenellon for 15,000 guilders in bank ...
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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.