 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1722 - 640 pages
...it is in the great World of vifible Things ; wherein his Power, however manag'd by Art and Ski 11, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the...already in being. The fame Inability will every one rind in himfelf, who (hall go ab^'"- m fafhion in his Underftanding any fimple Idea, not receiv'd in... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...as it is in the great world of viiiblc things; wherein his power, however managed by art and Ikill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made allow an idea of fubftance, which comes not in by fenfation or reflection ; and fo we may be certain... | |
 | John Locke - 1801 - 950 pages
...as it is in the great world of vifille things, wherein his power, however managed by art and (kill, reaches no farther than to compound and divide the...his hand, but can do nothing towards the making the lealh particle of new matter, or deftroying one atom of what is already in being. The fame inability... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Philosophy - 1803 - 676 pages
...things ; " wherein his power, however managed by art " and fkill, reaches no farther than to com" pound and divide the materials that are made " to his hand, but can do nothing towards ma" king *' king the leaft particle of matter, or deftroying " one atom that is already in being. The... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 524 pages
...fame as in the ' great world of vifible things ; wherein his power, how1 ever managed by art or fldll, reaches no farther than to ' compound and divide the...are made to his ' hand, but can do nothing towards making the leaft par' tide of matter, or deftroying one atom that is already in 1 being. The fame inability... | |
 | Robert Eden Scott - Cognition - 1805 - 500 pages
...of Vifible things ; wherein his power, how' ever managed fey aft or ftill, rtaches no farther thari to ' compound and divide the materials that are made to his ' hand, but can do nothing towards making the leaft par' ticle of matter, or deftroying one atom that is already in * being. The fame... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 554 pages
...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 allow an idea of substance, which comes not in by sensation or reflection ; and so we may be certain... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 562 pages
...7. $ to. 5 B. zc zi.J. 73, * In his first letter to the bishop of •Worcester. + B. 3. c. 3. Thii. 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. The same inability... | |
 | John Locke - Books and reading - 1806 - 390 pages
...profefs, as it ftands there, I do not underftand. For it is uncertain to me, whether your lordfhip means. world of vifible things ; wherein his power, however...towards the making the leaft particle of new matter, or defiroying one atom of what is already in being. The fame inability will every one find in himfelf,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 794 pages
...Aft of receiving any thing ready to onc'e hand' when it only waits to be taken.— His power reache» no farther than to compound and divide the materials that are made to his band; but can do nothing towards the making ordeftroying one atom of what is already in being. Locke.—... | |
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Understanding destroy those that are there : 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... 
