An Essay on Moral Freedom: To which is Attached, a Review of the Principles of Dr. Whitby and President Edwards on Free Will; and of Dr. Brown's Theory of Causation and AgencyWaugh & Innes, 1829 - 311 من الصفحات |
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... ciple long before it is formally recognised by the understanding and received with all the pomp of the schools . There is another principle , that of association , namely , which at an equally early period , per- haps much earlier and ...
... ciple long before it is formally recognised by the understanding and received with all the pomp of the schools . There is another principle , that of association , namely , which at an equally early period , per- haps much earlier and ...
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... ciple on which the conception ultimately rests , the belief of constant and uniform sequence , as a whole , is got from experience ; and association , at first , exerts a powerful influence in its acquire- ments . On the intuitive ...
... ciple on which the conception ultimately rests , the belief of constant and uniform sequence , as a whole , is got from experience ; and association , at first , exerts a powerful influence in its acquire- ments . On the intuitive ...
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... ciple . A prisoner , who has neither money nor interest , discovers the impossibility of escape , as well when he considers the obstinacy of his guards as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded ; and in all his attempts for his ...
... ciple . A prisoner , who has neither money nor interest , discovers the impossibility of escape , as well when he considers the obstinacy of his guards as the walls and bars with which he is surrounded ; and in all his attempts for his ...
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... ciple , too , depend abstraction , attention , and other powers usually enumerated by mental phi- losophers . * Leaving , however , the principle of association to be elsewhere illustrated , the fact of the mind's • See Note B ...
... ciple , too , depend abstraction , attention , and other powers usually enumerated by mental phi- losophers . * Leaving , however , the principle of association to be elsewhere illustrated , the fact of the mind's • See Note B ...
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... ciple of causation ; and are equally absolute and certain in their results . The common belief of the difference which is imagined to subsist be- tween them is a mistake , in consequence of the multiplicity of circumstances on which ...
... ciple of causation ; and are equally absolute and certain in their results . The common belief of the difference which is imagined to subsist be- tween them is a mistake , in consequence of the multiplicity of circumstances on which ...
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الصفحة 174 - If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone ? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent ? or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion ? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ? " And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb.
الصفحة 170 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
الصفحة 151 - Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots ? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
الصفحة 25 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was BO.
الصفحة 119 - If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgment which keeps us from choosing or doing the...
الصفحة 274 - It must be confessed, that language is here somewhat imperfect, and the meaning of words in a considerable measure loose and unfixed, and not precisely limited by custom, which governs the use of language. In some sense, the affection of the soul differs nothing at all from the will and inclination...
الصفحة 183 - Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him, for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. " Woe unto the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
الصفحة 282 - Good and evil, present and absent, it is true, work upon the mind. But that which IMMEDIATELY determines the will from time to time, to every voluntary action, is the UNEASINESS OF DESIRE, fixed on some absent good: either negative, as indolence to one in pain; or positive, as enjoyment of pleasure.
الصفحة 54 - ... or wheel. His mind runs along a certain train of ideas : The refusal of the soldiers to consent to his escape ; the action of the executioner ; the separation of the head and body ; bleeding, convulsive motions, and death. Here is a connected chain of natural causes and voluntary actions ; but the mind feels no difference...
الصفحة 274 - ... em; or is the faculty by which the soul does not behold things, as an indifferent unaffected spectator, but either as liking or disliking, pleased or displeased, approving or rejecting. This faculty is called by various names: it is sometimes called the inclination...