 | John Locke - 1801 - 398 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 being should, if he pleased, give to certain system^ of created senseless matter, put together as he'think? fit, some degrees of sense, perception,... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 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... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - 1809 - 452 pages
...except by revelation, whether that which thinks •an us be not material. He sees " no contradic" tion in it, that the first eternal thinking Being " should,...some degrees of sense, perception, " and thought." He endeavours to guard against theological choler, by urging, " that the great ends ** of morality and... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 492 pages
...For I see no contradiction in *' it, that the first, eternal, thinking being, or omni" potent spirit, should, if he pleased, give to certain " systems of...some degrees of sense, perception, and " thought, though I judge it no less than a contradic" tion, to suppose matter (which is evidently, in its ''... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 448 pages
...inconceivable attraction iu matter, at immeufe, almoft incomprehenfible thinking Being should, if be pleased, give to certain systems of created senseless matter put together, as he thinks fit, some dediftances : it muft therefore he confefled, that there is foraething in folid, as "well as unfolid... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1818 - 416 pages
..." first thinking Being," namely, a God distinct from the visible world, " should have communicated to certain systems of created senseless matter, put...some degrees of sense, perception, and thought*." But it is impossible not to observe in addition, that the argument involves a confusion between the... | |
 | John Locke - 1819 - 460 pages
...could * -Eneid. 4. 385. -j- 1st Answer. $ Ibid. || 2 Cor. iii. *. § Tusculan Quaest. I. 1. c. 23. thinking being should, if he pleased, give to certain...fit, some degrees of sense, perception, and thought: though, as I think, I have proved, lib. iv. ch. 10. §. 14. not conceive this power to be in any thing... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 444 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... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 460 pages
...created being.but merely by the good pleasure and bounty of the Creator. For I see no contradictioninit, that the first eternal thinking being should, if he...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 432 pages
...pleasure and bounty of the Cfeator. For I see no contradiction in it, that the first eternal think^ ing being should, if he' pleased, give to certain systems...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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... 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... 
