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" ... in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration, of knowledge and power, of pleasure and happiness, and of several other qualities and powers, which it is better to have than to be without ; when we would frame an idea the most suitable we can... "
The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: The Spectator [no. 487-600 ... - Page 45
by Joseph Addison - 1854
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John Locke and English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Kenneth MacLean - 1962 - 192 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 4

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1965 - 618 pages
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The Eighteenth Century--the Intellectual and Cultural Context of English ...

James Sambrook - 1986 - 328 pages
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Latitudinarianism in the Seventeenth-Century Church of England

Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin - 1992 - 242 pages
...ultimately from simple ideas derived from sensation and reflection. [We have] from what we experiment in ourselves, got the ideas of existence and duration;...so putting them together, make our complex idea of God.14 Reason can tell us nothing about God's substance or essence, then, but just about his attributes....
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The Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English ...

James Sambrook - 1993 - 364 pages
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Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist

Robert Merrihew Adams - 1998 - 446 pages
...negative accounts of infinity in general, and of God's infinity in particular, abound. According to Locke, "when we would frame an Idea the most suitable we can to the supreme Being, we enlarge . . . with our 4 Other places where Leibniz appears to use 'absolute' to mean nonrelative are A VI,ii,161...
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The works of John Locke

John Locke - 1997
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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-century Philosophy, Volume 1

Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pages
...up of the simple Ideas we receive from Reflection; vg having from what we experiment in our selves, got the Ideas of Existence and Duration; of Knowledge...Infinity; and so putting them together, make our complex ¡dea ofGod.ix Because Locke's idea of God is constructed by us from simpler ideas, it is impossible...
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Science and Religion: An Introduction

Alister E. McGrath - 1999 - 250 pages
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Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification

Alister E. McGrath - 1998 - 550 pages
...constructed through the mind's infinite enlargement of its ideas, received from sensation and reflection, of 'Qualities and Powers, which it is better to have than to be without'. The egocentricity of Locke's account of experience thus inevitably leads to the moral character of...
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