| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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-... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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