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" ... since we know not wherein thinking consists, nor to what sort of substances the Almighty has been pleased to give that power, which cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction... "
The Works of Lord Bolingbroke: With a Life, Prepared Expressly for this ... - Page 174
by Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1841
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First ..., Volume 2

John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 424 pages
...being,but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradictioninit, thatthe first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased,...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib. iv. ch. 10. § 14, &c. it is no less than a contradiction to...
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An essay concerning human understanding. To which are now first ..., Volume 2

John Locke - 1832 - 426 pages
...cannot be in any created being,but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought : though, as I think, I have proved, lib. iv. ch. 10. § 14, &c. it is no less than a contradiction...
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A View of the Principal Deistical Writers: That Have Appeared in England in ...

John Leland - Apologetics - 1837 - 784 pages
...it is little less than blasphemy to deny it.f Mr. Locke, as he observes, supposed, that God might, if he pleased, give to certain systems of created...senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degree of sense, perception, and thought. But what Mr. Locke had advanced as barely possible, for aught...
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Essays on History, Philosophy, and Theology, Volume 2

Robert Vaughan - Christianity - 1849 - 338 pages
...cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought ; though, as I think, I have proved, lib. iv. ch. 1 0, it is not less than a contradiction to suppose...
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An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the ...

John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...cannot be in any created being but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought : though, as I think, I have proved, (lib. iv. chap, x.) it is no less than a contradiction to suppose...
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The Christian Philosopher & Metaphysician: A Series of Tracts, to be ...

John Lord - Anthroposophy - 1852 - 360 pages
...cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first Eternal thinking...senseless matter, put together as he thinks fit, some degree of sense, perception and thought." To this statement the Bishop took exception, and a controversy...
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The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Locke, James Augustus St. John - Language and languages - 1854 - 576 pages
...cannot be in any created being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal thinking...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought; though, as I think I have proved, lib. iv. ch. 10, § 14, &c., it is no less than a contradiction to...
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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on ...

John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...being, but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradiction iu it, ihat the first eternal thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain système Ix found in an eleph»nt. Hitherto it is not doubted but the power of Gad may go, •nd that...
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Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism ...

James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 444 pages
...Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think I see no contradiction in it that the first eternal thinking...systems of created senseless matter, put together as He sees fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought." 1 In these and similar passages, Locke did...
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Modern Atheism: Under Its Forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism ...

James Buchanan - Atheism - 1857 - 442 pages
...Omnipotency has not given to some systems of matter, fitly disposed, a power to perceive and think I see no contradiction in it that the first eternal thinking...systems of created senseless matter, put together as He sees fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought." l In these and similar passages, Locke did...
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