The Life of John Locke, Volume 2H. S. King, 1876 |
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... servant , I had almost said a slave , to truth ; never abandoning her for anything else , and following her for her own sake purely . " ( A letter from Lady Masham to Jean Le Clerc . ) THE LIFE OF JOHN LOCKE . BY H. R. FOX.
... servant , I had almost said a slave , to truth ; never abandoning her for anything else , and following her for her own sake purely . " ( A letter from Lady Masham to Jean Le Clerc . ) THE LIFE OF JOHN LOCKE . BY H. R. FOX.
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... truth of Chris- tianity , he borrowed the manuscript from me , and , having read it carefully , gave me his wise and ingenious com- ments upon it . " Locke , while he was in Utrecht , bor- rowed the manuscript again ; and he took it to ...
... truth of Chris- tianity , he borrowed the manuscript from me , and , having read it carefully , gave me his wise and ingenious com- ments upon it . " Locke , while he was in Utrecht , bor- rowed the manuscript again ; and he took it to ...
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... truth alone , or as much as I can find of it , care not at all whether it comes to me from heretics or the ortho- dox ; but I confess that , while it contains much which I cannot answer , there are some things in this work that do not ...
... truth alone , or as much as I can find of it , care not at all whether it comes to me from heretics or the ortho- dox ; but I confess that , while it contains much which I cannot answer , there are some things in this work that do not ...
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... truth of their doctrines and the purity of their worship is on both sides equal , nor is there any judge , either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth , by whose sentence it can be determined . The decision of that question belongs ...
... truth of their doctrines and the purity of their worship is on both sides equal , nor is there any judge , either at Constantinople or elsewhere upon earth , by whose sentence it can be determined . The decision of that question belongs ...
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... truth . Let us suppose , neverthe- less , that the civil magistrate inclined to favour one of them , and to put his sword into their hands , that , by his consent , they might chastise the dis- senters as they pleased . Will any man say ...
... truth . Let us suppose , neverthe- less , that the civil magistrate inclined to favour one of them , and to put his sword into their hands , that , by his consent , they might chastise the dis- senters as they pleased . Will any man say ...
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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.