# bib

id: A39370
author: Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.
date: 1690
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mime: application/xml
words: 1810
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flesch: 68
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title:
  Reflections upon some passages in a book, entitled reflections upon the conduct of human life. With reference to the study of learning and knowledge. By Edmund Elys.

summary:
  Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 31292) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 .


id: A30485
author: Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715.
date: 1697
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7775
sentence: 275
flesch: 64
cache: cache/A30485.xml
txt: txt/A30485.txt
title:
  Second remarks upon An essay concerning humane understanding in a letter address'd to the author, being a vindication of the first remarks against the answer of Mr. Lock, at the end of his reply to the Lord Bishop of Worcester.

summary:
  Sir , I did not presume to desire to know the full Systems of your Morality , but the Basis up on which you would build it : And you having declar'd more than once , That from Grounds and Principles laid down in your Book , Morality might be Mathematically demonstrated , I thought it would give no offence to enquire which Ground or Principle you pitcht upon for your Foundation . Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors.


id: A53057
author: Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.
title: Philosophicall fancies. Written by the Right Honourable, the Lady Newcastle.
date: 1653
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mime: application/xml
words: 16209
sentence: 736
flesch: 74
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txt: txt/A53057.txt
summary:
  But as an equall motion makes light , and a perturb'd motion makes colour , which is between Light , & Darknesse : So Darknesse is an Opposite Motion to those Motions that make light ; for though Light is an equall Motion , yet it is such a kind , or sort of Motion . What makes a Naturall Aversion from some Creatures to others , and what causes an unnaturalnsse to their owne kind and Breed ? What Motion makes Thunder , Lightning , VVinde , Earthquakes , Cold , Ice , Snow , Haile , Rain , what Motions makes drought , Heat .


id: A65786
author: White, Thomas, 1593-1676.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 22200
sentence: 661
flesch: 59
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txt: txt/A65786.txt
title:
  An exclusion of scepticks from all title to dispute being an answer to The vanity of dogmatizing / by Thomas White.

summary:
  Nature her self , therefore , teaches us , that Man is an Animal endued with Reason , to fit him for governing his Action , and Reason is allowed to be That whereby what before was unknown is rendred known : dayly Experience also convinces that our Action consists for the most part in such things as are subject to an infinite and insuperable mutability and variation : whence it comes to pass , that that Vertue which is immediate to action cannot properly be called Science ( since 't is not infallible , and the effect of demonstrative Discourse ) but a power of conjecturing aptly ; and uses commonly to be term'd Prudence , either properly or derivatively ; properly , if it be concerning the thing to be done , as to its right proceeding from Reason ; analogically , if of the action or thing to be done , as it regards some other inferior Faculty subservient to the dominion of Reason . For , if to Reason be to advance our selves , out of certain and known things , to things before unknown and uncertain ; and nothing be certain : neither is any Reasoning possible ; nor consequently any power of reasoning ; or Animal endowed with it .


id: A26553
author: Abercromby, David, d. 1701 or 2.
date: 1687
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 24475
sentence: 1213
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A26553.xml
txt: txt/A26553.txt
title:
  Academia scientiarum, or, The academy of sciences being a short and easie introduction to the knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences, with the names of those famous authors that have written on every particular science : in English and Latine / by D. Abercromby ...

summary:
  The first signifieth , that whatever 〈◊〉 generally affirmed of any thing , m●… likewise be affirm'd of whatever is contain'd under that thing , as if I s●… Every Animal is a living Creature , th●… it follows , that a Bird is a living Cre●tur● ▪ The second signifieth , that what ever is generally denied of any thing is denied likewise of whatever is contain'd under that thing ; as if I say No Animal is a Stone , then I may , an cught likewise to say , No Bird is Stone , No Man is a Stone , &c. I then b● allowed to say , without the least suspicio● of flattery , that you are not only th● la●ful Successor of the most Ancient , mo● Noble , and Loyal Family of the Thai● of Calder , and of their Estate and For ▪ tune , but also , that you are already possess'd of these good and great Endowments both of Body and Mind , which made them capable of the great Employments they were intrusted with , and enabled them on all occasions to render the Kings of Scotland and Great Britain such signal Services , as can never be forgotten .


id: A70185
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
date: 1665
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 27198
sentence: 889
flesch: 55
cache: cache/A70185.xml
txt: txt/A70185.txt
title:
  Scepsis scientifica, or, Confest ignorance, the way to science in an essay of The vanity of dogmatizing, and confident opinion : with a reply to the exceptions of the learned Thomas Albius / by Joseph Glanvill ...

summary:
  And Aristotle himself 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . And ( 2. ) his calling God , the Quintessence , Form , the Soul , and Motion , by the common appellative of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To all which might be added , that 't is an argument that the Aristotelean method was not so clear and cautious , as our Author would have it believed ; since his Commentators have been infinitely divided about his meaning : And our Author himself complains , That those of the latter Schools have quite receded from his genuine doctrine , which either accuses their ignorance , or his obscurity .


id: A52433
author: Masham, Damaris, Lady, 1658-1708.
date: 1690
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31550
sentence: 1061
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A52433.xml
txt: txt/A52433.txt
title:
  Reflections upon the conduct of human life with reference to the study of learning and knowledge : in a letter to the excellent lady, the Lady Masham / by John Norris ... ; to which is annex'd a visitation sermon, by the same author.

summary:
  To question their Conduct in any thing else , would be but a trivial Charge , and such as they would not only readily Pardon , but Acknowledge ; it being a common thing with Learned Men not only to own , but studiously to affect Ignorance in things besides their Profession , as in Secular business , the common Affairs of Life , the Mysteries of Trades and the like . So much more Learned an atchievement is it to know Opinions than things ; and accordingly , those are reckon'd the most Learned Authors , who have given the greatest Specimens of this kind of Knowledge .


id: A61523
author: Stillingfleet, Edward, 1635-1699.
date: 1698
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 39404
sentence: 1510
flesch: 70
cache: cache/A61523.xml
txt: txt/A61523.txt
title:
  The bishop of Worcester's answer to Mr. Locke's second letter wherein his notion of ideas is prov'd to be inconsistent with itself, and with the articles of the Christian faith.

summary:
  What is meant by these Archetypes in the Mind which cannot deceive us ? I confess here are such things said in order to Certainty , which are above my Understanding , if taken with respect to Things ; as how we cannot but be infallibly certain , that all the Knowledge we attain concerning these Ideas is real , and reaches things themselves , and yet they are Archetypes of the Mind 's own making , not intended to be the Copies of any thing , nor referr'd to the Existence of any thing . And to pretend to Certainty by Ideas without pretending to clear and distinct Ideas , is to judge without Evidence , and to determine a thing to be certainly true , when we cannot know whether it be so or not ; for how can you be sure that your Ideas agree with the Reality of things ( wherein you place the Certainty of Knowledge ) if there be no such Ideas of those things , that you can perceive their true Nature , and their difference from all others ?


id: A01894
author: Goodwin, Thomas, 1600-1680.
date: 1637
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37965
sentence: 1465
flesch: 77
cache: cache/A01894.xml
txt: txt/A01894.txt
title:
  Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers occasions. By Tho: Goodvvin B.D.

summary:
  Now for sinnes committed collaterally , or per modum circumstantia ( that I may so expresse it ) against knowledge , they are done either when particular acts of sinne are committed , and duties omitted , against light and knowledge ; and so the Saints may and doe often sinne against knowledge . But these are not sinnes great enough for thee , that art a sinner of the Christians ; to be given up to drunkennesse , or adultery , &c. otherwise than to discover thy rottennesse , these are too small sins ; but thou shalt be given up to inward profanenesse of heart , ( as Esau was , having been brought up in a good family ) so as not to neglect holy duties onely , but to despise them ; to despise the good word of God and his Saints , and to hate godlinesse and the appearance of it ; thou shalt be given up to contemne God and his judgements , to trample under foot the blood of the covenant , or else unto devilish opinions ; those other are too small to be punishments of thy sinne :


id: A42833
author: Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 48341
sentence: 1762
flesch: 60
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txt: txt/A42833.txt
title:
  The vanity of dogmatizing, or, Confidence in opinions manifested in a discourse of the shortness and uncertainty of our knowledge, and its causes : with some reflexions on peripateticism, and an apology for philosophy / by Jos. Glanvill ...

summary:
  The first deception enter'd in at this Postern , and hath ever since kept it open for the entry of Legion : so that we scarse see any thing now but through our Passions , the most blind , and sophisticate things about us . And therefore , as that great man , the Lord Bacon hath observ'd , Time as a River , hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial ; while things more solid and substantial have been immersed .


id: A48871
author: Locke, John, 1632-1704.
title: An abridgment of Mr. Locke's Essay concerning humane [sic] understanding
date: 1696
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 58805
sentence: 2015
flesch: 62
cache: cache/A48871.xml
txt: txt/A48871.txt
summary:
  Secondly , They are designed for Representations in the mind of Things that do exist , by Ideas discoverable in them : in both which respects they are Inadaequate . This shews us the reason why in defining Words , we make use of the Genus : namely to save the labour of enumerating the several Simple Ideas , which the next general Term stands for : General Terms then belong not to the real Existence of Things ; they are Inventions of the Understanding , and concern only Signs , either Words or Ideas .


# ent

id: A26553
sid: 245
eid: 5
type: ORG
entity:
  polygoni hoc est figurae variis terminatae angulis lineas quasdam super quibus propugnaculum aedificandum est


