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" But, whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I find the ideas actually perceived by Sense have not a like dependence on my will. When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I shall see or no, or to determine... "
A Student's History of Philosophy - Page 356
by Arthur Kenyon Rogers - 1907 - 511 pages
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 1

George Berkeley - 1820 - 514 pages
...unthinking agents, or of exciting ideas exclusive of volition, we only amuse ourselves with words. XXIX. But whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I...ideas actually perceived by sense have not a like dependance on my will. When in broad day-light I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether...
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The Works of George Berkeley, Volume 1

George Berkeley - 1820 - 506 pages
...unthinking agents, or of exciting ideas exclusive of volition, we only amuse ourselves with words. XXIX. But whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I...ideas actually perceived by sense have not a like dependance on my will. When in broad day-light I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether...
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The Book of Nature, Volume 3

John Mason Good - 1826 - 454 pages
...such rules as he himself has ordained, and are termed by us the laws of nature. — When," says he, " in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my...particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of...
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The Book of Nature, Volume 1

John Mason Good - 1828 - 542 pages
...to such rules as he himself has sd, and are termed by us the laws of nature. — When,4 says he, "in daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether I ie or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present their, to my view ; and so likewise...
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The Book of Nature, Volume 2

John Mason Good - 1828 - 540 pages
...such rules as ho himself has ordained, and are termed by us the laws of nature. — When,1' says he, "in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my poxvcr.to choose whether 1 shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 5

Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...as He himself hath ordained, and which are by us termed ' the laws of Nature.' " Again he says : " When in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in...particular objects shall present themselves to my view ; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures...
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Connected Essays and Tracts, being a series of inferences, deduced chiefly ...

Henry O'CONNOR (Barrister-at-Law) - 1837 - 376 pages
...passively, must be the result of some active power without us. " When," says Berkeley, " in broad day light I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether...particular objects shall present themselves to my view, and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of...
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The Book of Nature

John Mason Good - 1837 - 482 pages
...such rules as he himself has ordained, and are termed by us the laws oí nature. — When," says he, " in broad daylight I open my eyes, it is not in my power to choose whether 1 shall see or no, or to determine what particular objects shall present themselves to my view ; and...
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Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Darstellung der ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Johann Eduard Erdmann - 1842 - 662 pages
...can excite ideas in my mind ai pleasure and vary and shift the scene as oft as I think fit. — But whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I...perceived by sense have not a like dependence on my will. — . .. the ideas imprinted on them (senses) are not creatures of my will. There is therefore some...
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The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne: Including ..., Volume 1

George Berkeley - 1843 - 556 pages
...ordinary course of things. XXIX. Ideas of sensation f differ from those of reflection or memory.—[But whatever power I may have over my own thoughts, I...particular objects shall present themselves to my view; and so likewise as to the hearing and other senses, the ideas imprinted on them are not creatures of...
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