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  • Locke and Hobbes that the forty-six guests—freed at long last from the tyranny of social conventions—would shove the tables aside, gather the fruits of the earth in hand, and share them freely in a state of natural bliss!†   (source)
  • He called himself Locke.†   (source)
  • The place later got razed to build Locke High School.†   (source)
  • He remembered Locke's statement that no object, scientific or otherwise, is knowable except in terms of its qualities.†   (source)
  • His books stood neatly along the glassed-in shelves of four vaultlike oak bookcases: the collected Shakespeare, Jefferson's essays, Thoreau, Paine, Rousseau, Crevecoeur, Locke, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, Dickens, Tolstoy.†   (source)
  • You may recall that Locke was not consistent in his empiricism.†   (source)
  • I was tall and lanky, which Locke said was the ideal build for a long-distance runner.†   (source)
  • Nathanael read Caesar and Horace in English translation, Swift, Pope, and Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.†   (source)
  • House Flint held it for a century, House Locke for almost two.†   (source)
  • Kant, Voltaire, Locke ... what's so dangerous about them?†   (source)
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  • Just the names-all the Greeks, of course, and Descartes, Locke, Shaftesbury, Leibniz, Vico, Eberhard, Herder, Schiller, Kant, Rilke, Keats, Schelling, and a hundred others, loaded all the cannon and made them ready to fire.†   (source)
  • Locke admitted what he called intuitive, or 'demonstrative,' knowledge in other areas too.†   (source)
  • I noticed the treaty a year ago was named for Locke.†   (source)
  • They finally agreed to accept the Locke Proposal.†   (source)
  • Locke was one of the first philosophers in more recent times to be interested in sexual roles.†   (source)
  • Well, Demosthenes isn't even going to notice that Locke exists.†   (source)
  • But all three had been to England and were familiar with the philosophy of Locke.†   (source)
  • What I can't figure out is why they wanted Demosthenes before Locke.†   (source)
  • I remember that, and I think Locke's division of things was important.†   (source)
  • Locke was supposed to be the respected one.†   (source)
  • And that brings us to the second question Locke tried to answer.†   (source)
  • Just as I trust Demosthenes not to tell Locke what's going on here today.†   (source)
  • In this way what Locke called simple ideas of sense arise.†   (source)
  • Locke also compared the mind to an unfurnished room.†   (source)
  • Locke is the one who argued for Ender to stay on Eros.†   (source)
  • Locke distinguished between what he called 'primary' and 'secondary' qualities.†   (source)
  • Peter, it isn't you and me, it's Demosthenes and Locke.†   (source)
  • Wasn't it Locke that was recently praised as 'The only truly open mind in America'?†   (source)
  • You remember we talked about an apple in connection with Locke.†   (source)
  • Locke repeats Aristotle's words, and when Locke uses them, they are aimed at Descartes.†   (source)
  • The ones that aren't Locke's lapdogs are under his thumb in other ways.†   (source)
  • That Demosthenes and Locke aren't as much under our control as the Wiggin.†   (source)
  • As Locke would say, we have formed a complex idea of an 'apple.'†   (source)
  • Locke emphasized that the only things we can perceive are simple sensations.†   (source)
  • He doesn't know about the Locke Proposal.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, his Locke followed her moderate, empathic strategies.†   (source)
  • Locke believed—just like Descartes and Spinoza— that the material world is a reality.†   (source)
  • Ender Wiggin's older brother, who also happened to be the great Locke, the architect of peace.†   (source)
  • "One thing hasn't changed," Ser Mallador Locke insisted.†   (source)
  • "The Giant's Stair might serve," said Ser Mallador Locke, "or the Skirling Pass, if it's clear."†   (source)
  • "The gods have turned against us," old Lord Locke was heard to say in the Great Hall.†   (source)
  • The crossbows took Donnel Locke, Owen Norrey, and half a dozen more.†   (source)
  • Ser Mallador Locke went by on his horse, wearing a snow-speckled helm.†   (source)
  • Locke calls these secondary qualities.†   (source)
  • People will be shocked that Demosthenes and Locke are two kids, but they'll already be used to listening to us.†   (source)
  • Locke had first and foremost emphasized that the legislative and the executive power must be separated if tyranny was to be avoided.†   (source)
  • He couldn't write Locke without her.†   (source)
  • He was familiar both with the rationalism of Descartes and Spinoza and the empiricism of Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.†   (source)
  • And sometimes she read Peter's Locke essays and found herself annoyed at his obvious blindness to what was really going on.†   (source)
  • But they were also inspired by British philosophy, in particular by Locke and his political philos-ophy.†   (source)
  • We have come across this idea of a so-called natural right in many philosophers from Socrates to Locke.†   (source)
  • Father was reading Demosthenes regularly; he never read Locke, or if he did, he said nothing about it.†   (source)
  • By having her write Demosthenes, it meant he also had some empathy, just as Locke also could play on others fears.†   (source)
  • The first significant system-builder was Descartes, and he was followed by Spinoza and Leibniz, Locke and Berkeley, Hume and Kant.†   (source)
  • Besides, this appointment doesn't mean they like Demosthenes better than Locke, it just means that Demosthenes has a much stronger base of support.†   (source)
  • The most important empiricists—or philosophers of experience—were Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, and all three were British.†   (source)
  • But Locke also said that the 'primary qualities' like density, gravity, and weight really do belong to the external reality around us.†   (source)
  • Let them spend the next fifty years poring over the passenger list, trying to figure out which one of them is the great demagogue of the Age of Locke.†   (source)
  • All this time we've been worried, all the time we've been trying to persuade the Russians not to take Demosthenes too seriously, we held up Locke as proof that Americans weren't all crazy warmongers.†   (source)
  • LOCKE as hare and empty as a blackboard before the teacher arrives Sophie arrived home at eight-thirty.†   (source)
  • Locke's claim is that all our thoughts and ideas issue from that which we have taken in through the senses.†   (source)
  • You're arguing Locke's part, Val.†   (source)
  • You remember that Locke pointed out that we cannot make statements about the 'secondary qualities' of things.†   (source)
  • A few days later Locke got picked up for a column in a New England newsnet, specifically to provide a contrasting view for their popular column from Demosthenes.†   (source)
  • Locke's view was that to ensure a legal State, the people's representatives must make the laws and the king or the government must apply them.†   (source)
  • At school, she once nearly got them in trouble, when her history teacher assigned the class to write a paper contrasting the views of Demosthenes and Locke as expressed in two of their early columns.†   (source)
  • An equally rationalistic feature was that Locke believed that it was inherent in human reason to be able to know that God exists.†   (source)
  • It was the moment he had been waiting for, to use Demosthenes' influence with the mob and Locke's influence with the intelligentsia to accomplish something noteworthy.†   (source)
  • So when it was a question of 'extended' reality, Locke agreed with Descartes that it does have certain qualities that man is able to understand with his reason.†   (source)
  • Make no report at this time except that we have determined that Locke and Demosthenes have no foreign connections and have no connections with any domestic group, either, except those publicly declared on the nets.†   (source)
  • Locke.†   (source)
  • All in all, Locke was a forerunner of many liberal ideas which later, during the period of the French Enlightenment in the eighteenth century, came into full flower.†   (source)
  • Locke and Demosthenes†   (source)
  • With his departure, in the words of one Harvard history, Locke was "promptly forgotten," but not by John Adams.†   (source)
  • Ser Mallador Locke drew his longsword.†   (source)
  • But during my second year, my friend Locke Ndzamela, Healdtown's champion hurdler, encouraged me to take up a new sport: long-distance running.†   (source)
  • Samuel Locke, another from the class, was not only the youngest man ever chosen for the presidency of Harvard, but to Adams one of the best men ever chosen, irrespective of the fact that Locke had had to resign after only a few years in office, when his housemaid became pregnant.†   (source)
  • Ser Mallador Locke would strike for the Shadow Tower, hoping to pick up Qhorin's trail and learn what had befallen him.†   (source)
  • Old Lord Locke was shouting for a maester as Manderly flopped on the floor like a clubbed walrus in a spreading pool of blood.†   (source)
  • Farther down the table Wyman Manderly sat wolfing down sausages and boiled eggs, whilst old Lord Locke beside him spooned gruel into his toothless mouth.†   (source)
  • Then came the Old Bear with the main force, Ser Mallador Locke with the baggage train and packhorses, and finally Ser Ottyn Wythers and the rear guard.†   (source)
  • The Old Bear stood before the fire with Smallwood, Locke, Wythers, and Blane ranged behind him in a row.†   (source)
  • "As to this of my cousins," Tyrion went on, "we offer Harrion Karstark and Ser Wylis Manderly for Willem Lannister, and Lord Cerwyn and Ser Donnel Locke for your brother Tion.†   (source)
  • Norrey, Locke, and Burley men chiefly, with Ser Wylis Manderly and his White Harbor knights as rear guard.†   (source)
  • Lord Stout became a mastiff, old Lord Locke a vulture, Whoresbane Umber a gargoyle, Big Walder Frey a fox, Little Walder a red bull, lacking only a ring for his nose.†   (source)
  • Sweet Donnel Hill was squire to Ser Mallador Locke, and the night before last Smallwood had come to Locke's tent.†   (source)
  • Banners flew from its square towers, flapping in the wind: the flayed man of the Dreadfort, the battle-axe of Cerwyn, Tallhart's pines, the merman of Manderly, old Lord Locke's crossed keys, the Umber giant and the stony hand of Flint, the Hornwood moose.†   (source)
  • But they would need to kill Ser Ottyn and Ser Mallador Locke as well to give Smallwood the command, and both of them were well-attended day and night ...no, the .†   (source)
  • For a long time he was mad on Great Books and he used to buy space in the want ads and put in quotations from Plato or Locke.†   (source)
  • The rights of labor still were closely associated in the fashion of Locke and Jefferson with the right of the laborer to retain his own product; when men talked about the sacredness of labor, they were often talking in veiled terms about the right to own.†   (source)
  • It was true; he was for the most part happy; he had his wife; he had his children; he had promised in six weeks' time to talk "some nonsense" to the young men of Cardiff about Locke, Hume, Berkeley, and the causes of the French Revolution.†   (source)
  • He is remarkably like the portrait of Locke.†   (source)
  • "Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?"†   (source)
  • "Besides, it's not likely yet, didn't Sondra say she just heard it from Blanche Locke over the phone?†   (source)
  • Two people were drowned this morning or yesterday up at Big Bittern, so Blanche Locke was telling me just now over the phone.†   (source)
  • If it prove a mind of uncommon activity and power, a Locke,[234] a Lavoisier,[235] a Hutton,[236] a Betham,[237] a Fourier,[238] it imposes its classification on other men, and lo!†   (source)
  • So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight.†   (source)
  • Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke,[18] which Bacon,[19] have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.†   (source)
  • His manners, she thought, were very dignified; the set of his iron-gray hair and his deep eye-sockets made him resemble the portrait of Locke.†   (source)
  • As Sir Robert Peel[572] and Mr. Webster[573] vote, so Locke[574] and Rousseau[575] think for thousands; and so there were foundations all around Homer,[576] Menu,[577] Saada,[578] or Milton,[579] from which they drew; friends, lovers, books, traditions, proverbs,——all perished,——which, if seen, would go to reduce the wonder.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether Locke blinked, but I'm sure I am sorry for those who sat opposite to him if he did."†   (source)
  • And I read about this time Locke On Human Understanding, and the Art of Thinking, by Messrs.†   (source)
  • "I read a good deal in Daniel's English History of France; a great deal in Plutarch's Lives, the Atalantis, Pope's Homer, Dryden's Plays, Chillingworth, the Countess D'Aulnois, and Locke's Human Understanding.†   (source)
  • Thus the heroe is always introduced with a flourish of drums and trumpets, in order to rouse a martial spirit in the audience, and to accommodate their ears to bombast and fustian, which Mr Locke's blind man would not have grossly erred in likening to the sound of a trumpet.†   (source)
  • I have bewildered myself so——but one is apt, in these abstracted considerations, to lose the concatenation of ideas, as Mr Locke says:——in short, the truth is——in short, I scarce know what it is; but, as I was saying, my husband returned, and his behaviour, at first, greatly surprized me; but he soon acquainted me with the motive, and taught me to account for it.†   (source)
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