 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 - 1894 - 604 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...it operate on our senses differently from what it lid before. Tim. the sun has a power to make wax wliite, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually... | |
 | Edward John Hamilton - Perception - 1899 - 460 pages
...so forth, — these I call secondary qualities." With these secondary qualities Locke classed also " the power that is in any body, by reason of the particular...a, power to make wax white, and fire to make lead tluid." Elsewhere Locke adds to the primary qualities situation and texture, or consistency. First,... | |
 | Edward J. Hamilton - 1899 - 466 pages
...forth, — these I call se qualities." With these secondary qualities Locke classed also " the pov is in any body, by reason of the particular constitution of its l qualities, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, a tion of another body as to make... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 632 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...texture, and motion of another body, as to make it 98 operate on our senses differently from what it did before. Thus the sun has a power to make wax... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1904 - 640 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 642 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...senses differently from what it did before. Thus the ran has a power to make wax white, and fire to make lead fluid. These are usually called powers. '... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 382 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... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1905 - 424 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 quali- ' ties, to make such a change in the bulk, figure, texture, and motion of another body, as to... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 484 pages
...several colours, sounds, smells, tastes, etc. 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... | |
 | Philosophy, Modern - 1908 - 768 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... | |
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