 When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit,...  Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding - Pagina 6door JOHN MURRAY - 1852Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1813 - 996 pagina’s
...repeat, compare, and unite ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas ; but it has not the power to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned *." This fair structure, stately and imposing as it was, when the band of Locke erected it, has suffered... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 554 pagina’s
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged...simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways aforementioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there. The dominion... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 562 pagina’s
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and go can make at pleasure new complex ideas. 13ut it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged...simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways aforementioned : nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are then. The dominion of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pagina’s
...them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so " can make at pleasure new complex ideas. — But it is not " in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged un" derstanding, by any quickness or variety of thoughts, " to invent or frame one new simple idea... | |
 | 1812 - 84 pagina’s
...at pleasure new complex ideas; but it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or understanding, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned. C 2. S 2. The ideas we receive from sensation are divided into four classes. First. Those which come... | |
 | James Fishback - 1813 - 326 pagina’s
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make, at pleasure, new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or va iety of thoughts, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before... | |
 | John Locke - 1813 - 518 pagina’s
...accidents should subsist by themiclvei."cty ; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged understand, ing, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in... | |
 | John Locke - 1815 - 454 pagina’s
...unite them, even to an almost infinite variety; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit, or enlarged...simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways afore-mentioned : nor can any force of the ' Thus I have, in a short draught, giren a view of our original... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pagina’s
...them, even to an almost infinite va" riety, and socanmake at pleasure new complex ideas. " — But it is not in the power of the most exalted ' " wit, or...enlarged understanding, by any quickness " or variety of thoughts, to invent or frame oue " new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the " ways before mentioned... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pagina’s
...repeat, compare, and unite; and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas; but it has not the power to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned *." * Locke's Essay, Book ii. Chap. 1, 2. 14o This fair structure, stately and imposing as it was,... | |
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