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Page 449 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 105 - I do not pretend to be a setter-up of new notions. My endeavours tend only to unite and place in a clearer light that truth, which was before shared between the vulgar and the philosophers : the former being of opinion, that those things they immediately perceive are the real things : and the latter, that the things immediately perceived are ideas which exist only in the mind.
Page 90 - It being that term which, I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks...
Page 440 - This is no where more remarkable than in birds of the same shape and proportion, where we often see the male determined in his courtship by the single grain or tincture of a feather, and never discovering any charms but in the colour of its species.
Page 90 - It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them. Our (knowledge, therefore, is real only so far as there is a conformity between our ideas and the reality of things.
Page 63 - ... the understanding is not much unlike a closet wholly shut from light, with only some little opening left to let in external visible resemblances or ideas of things without: would the pictures coming into such a dark room but stay there, and lie so orderly as to be found upon occasion, it would very much resemble the understanding of a man in reference to all objects of sight, and the ideas of them.
Page 248 - 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 330 - And something previous ev'n to taste — 'tis sense: Good sense, which only is the gift of heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven: A light, which in yourself you must perceive; Jones and Le Notre0 have it not to give.
Page 329 - I call white; by which I know that that quality or accident (ie whose appearance before my eyes always causes that idea) doth really exist, and hath a being without me. And of this, the greatest assurance I can possibly have, and to which my faculties can attain, is the testimony of my eyes, which are the proper and sole judges of this thing...
Page 306 - Likewise the idea of man that I frame to myself, must be either of a white, or a black, or a tawny, a straight or a crooked, a tall or a low, or a middle-sized man.