 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1796 - 556 pages
...foever we are, we always feel fomething under us that fupports us, and hinders our farther finking downwards; and the bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that, whilft they remain between them, they do by an infurmountable force hinder the approach of the parts... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1801 - 340 pages
...ibever we are, we always feel fomething under us that fupports us, and hinders our farther finking downwards ; and the bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that whilfl they remain between them, they do, by an infurmountable force, hinder the approach of the parts... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - 1048 pages
...body, to (he en- from touch. trance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly...under us that supports us, and hinders our farther seeking downwards; and the bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that, whilst they remain... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1823 - 382 pages
...body, to the en- from touch' trance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly from sensation than solidity. WhetJter.we move or rest, in what posture soever we are, we always feel something under us that supports... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1825 - 490 pages
...applying to all bodies in their usual state of existence. " There is no idea," indeed, says Locke, " which we receive more constantly from sensation than...Solidity. Whether we move or rest, in what posture so ever we are, we always feel something under us that supports us, and hinders our farther sinking... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1828 - 602 pages
...we find in body, to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly from sensation than solidity. Whether \ve move, or rest, in what posture soever we are, we always feel something under us, that supports... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1838 - 590 pages
...F find in body, to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly...that supports us, and hinders our farther sinking do\Vnwards; and the bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that whilst they remain between... | |
 | sir Edward Johnson - Language and languages - 1842 - 586 pages
...nonsense in its place — illustrates what is meant by solidity, by saying : " whether we move or rest, we feel something under us that supports us, and hinders our farther sinking downwards." It is true that he says, a line or two farther on, that solidity " is as essential a quality of water... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...we find in body to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly...Whether we move or rest, in what posture soever we arc, we always feel something under us that supports us, and hinders our farther sinking downwards... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...we find in body, to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly...that supports us, and hinders our farther sinking downward : and the bodies which we daily handle make us perceive, that, whilst they remain between... | |
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The idea of solidity we receive by our touch: and it arises from the resistance which we find in body to the entrance of any other body into the place it possesses, till it has left it. There is no idea which we receive more constantly from sensation... 
