 The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our senses, differently from what it did before....  The Life of John Locke - Page 111by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - 1853 - 588 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly. The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to mal\e it operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make... | |
 | John Locke - Philosophy - 1854 - 560 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly, the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually called powers. The first of these, as has been said, I think may be properly called... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. Thirdly, The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its primary qualities, to make sucha change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to make it operate on our... | |
 | James McCosh - 1866 - 424 pages
...(specially mentioned by Locke, Essay, B. II. c. ii. ยง 23) by which one body operates upon another; " thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." It is enough for us here to examine Mr. Mill's theory of the production of the idea of Eesistance and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1867 - 664 pages
...into any receptivity or subjectivity of mine." " those powers by which one body operates upon another; thus " the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead " fluid." If Dr. M'Cosh had entered even a very little way into the mode of thought which he is combating, he... | |
 | Theology - 1868 - 904 pages
...figure, thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. "Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." When I said so I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | James McCosh - 1868 - 90 pages
...thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. " Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." When I said so, I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | James McCosh - Ethics - 1869 - 82 pages
...thus omitting, I said, those powers mentioned by Locke, by which one body operates upon another. " Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid." AVhen I said so, I had entered a good way, notwithstanding his insinuation to the contrary, into the... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities, (b) The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and... | |
 | David Hume - Knowledge, Theory of - 1874 - 604 pages
...ideas of several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, &c. These are usually called sensible qualities. (6) The power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...and motion of another body, as to make it operate differently on our senses from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax white, and... | |
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