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Locke's Conduct of the Understanding - Page 135
by John Locke - 1881 - 136 pages
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An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the ...

John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...the satisfaction to have aimed sincerely at truth and usefulness, though in one of the meanest ways. The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without...in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygeuius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that strain, it is ambition enough to...
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An essay concerning human understanding. With the notes and illustr. of the ...

John Locke - 1853 - 588 pages
...the satisfaction to have aimed sincerely at truth and usefulness, though in one of the meanest ways. The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without...lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity : but eveiy one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham ; and in an age that produces such masters as the...
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Locke's essays. An essay concerning human understanding. And A treatise on ...

John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...the satisfaction to have aimed sincerely at truth and usefulness, though in one of the meanest ways. The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without...Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr Newton, with some others of that strain, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground...
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: With the Notes and Illustrations of ...

John Locke - 1879 - 722 pages
...the satisfaction to have aimed sincerely at truth and usefulness, though in one of the meanest ways. The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without...posterity : but every one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydciiham ; and in an age that produces such masters as the great liny genins, andthe incomparable...
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Locke

Thomas Fowler - Authors, English - 1880 - 222 pages
...following passage, expressing no doubt Locke's genuine opinion of the great writers whom ho names:—" The Commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mightv 1 O designs in advancing the sciences will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity;...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 32

Henry Barnard - Education - 1882 - 1112 pages
...various orders of our beliefs rest » Compare what Locke says of Newton in the Epistle tn the Render, prefixed to the Essay : ' The Commonwealth of Learning...every one must not hope to be a Boyle or a Sydenham. Anil in nn а^с ttmt produces such masters as the great — Huygenius, aiid the Incomparable Mr. Newton,...
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The World's Cyclopedia of Biography, Volume 3

Biography - 1883 - 836 pages
...expressing no doubt Locke's genuine opinion of the great writers whom he names :— " The Com 49 monwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders,...incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that strain, 'tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing...
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Locke

Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 224 pages
...following passage, expressing no doubt Locke's genuine opinion of the great writers whom he names : — " The Commonwealth of learning is not at this time without...admiration of posterity ; but every one must not hope to bs a Boyle or a Sydenbam, and in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius and the incomparable...
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Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York

Medical Society of the State of New York (1807- ) - Medicine - 1887 - 800 pages
...is shown when he says : "The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master builders, whose mighty designs in advancing the sciences will...in an age that produces such masters as the great Huyghenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-laborer,...
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English Men of Letters, Volume 11

John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 618 pages
...following passage, expressing no doubt Locke's genuine opinion of the great writers whom he names: — "The Commonwealth of learning is not at this time...in an age that produces such masters as the great Hnygenius and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that strain, 'tis ambition enough to...
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