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" 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 or... "
The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition - Page 87
by Robert Jardine - 1874 - 287 pages
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The Christian Observer, Volume 11

1813 - 996 pages
...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...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 562 pages
...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...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1805 - 554 pages
...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...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...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...
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A syllabus of Locke's Essay on the human understanding

1812 - 84 pages
...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....
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The Philosophy of the Human Mind, in Respect to Religion; Or, A ...

James Fishback - 1813 - 326 pages
...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...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Volume 1

John Locke - 1813 - 518 pages
...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...
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An essay concerning human understanding. Also extr. from the author's works ...

John Locke - 1815 - 454 pages
...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...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pages
...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...
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Select Pieces in Verse and Prose, Volume 1

John Bowdler - 1816 - 374 pages
...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...
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