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Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy ... - Page 411
by Alexander Bain - 1868 - 539 pages
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...illustration of it that has yet been given. " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, The absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As, for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation exhibiting a general view of the ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...illustration of it that has yet been given. " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, The absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As, for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...illustration of it that has yet been given. " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained * Tractat. Polit. cap. ii. sect. 6. f Le Philosophe Ignorant, XIII. J Essay on Truth, p. 360, 2d Ed....
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - Authors, English - 1836 - 538 pages
...not made an end of deliberating. Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have-...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt, Volume 1

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 pages
...not made an end of deliberating. Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have...
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Biographical sketch

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 pages
...not made an end of deliberating. Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have...
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Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With a Notice of His Life by ...

William Hazlitt - 1836 - 372 pages
...end of deliberating. Fiflhly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty ts the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have...
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The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, Volume 4

Thomas Hobbes - Philosophy - 1840 - 492 pages
...not made an end of deliberating. Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As for example, the water is said to descend freely, VOL. IV....
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Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects: Historical, Moral, and Political ...

James Napier Bailey - English literature - 1842 - 270 pages
...the process of deliberation takes, place he denominates voluntary. He conceives liberty to consist in the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature of the agent. This he illustrates in the following manner. Water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend...
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The Works of the Most Reverend Father in God, John Bramhall, D.D ..., Volume 4

John Bramhall - Theology - 1844 - 624 pages
...XXIX. [y. Defini. TH — Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in Kferfy.] this manner. Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and in the intrinsecal quality of the agent. As, for example, the water is said to descend freely,...
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