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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XVIII
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Sounds also, besides the distinct cries of birds and beasts, are modified by diversity of notes of different length put together, which make that complex idea called a tune, which a musician may have in his mind when he hears or makes no sound at all, by reflecting on the ideas of those sounds, so put together silently in his own fancy.
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Modes of Colours.
Those of colours are also very various: some we take notice of as the different degrees, or as they were termed shades, of the same colour.
But since we very seldom make assemblages of colours, either for use or delight, but figure is taken in also, and has its part in it, as in painting, weaving, needleworks, &c.;--those which are taken notice of do most commonly belong to MIXED MODES, as being made up of ideas of divers kinds, viz.

figure and colour, such as beauty, rainbow, &c.
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Modes of Tastes.
All compounded tastes and smells are also modes, made up of the simple ideas of those senses.

But they, being such as generally we have no names for, are less taken notice of, and cannot be set down in writing; and therefore must be left without enumeration to the thoughts and experience of my reader.
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