 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1847 - 558 σελίδες
...and motions of our bodies, barely by a thought or preference of the mind. — A power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind.— The power of the mind to determine its thoughts ioihe producing, continuing or stopping any action... | |
 | John Boag - 1848 - 744 σελίδες
...without external control. Liberty in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agimt to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which cither is preferred to the other. Privilege; exemption; immunity enjoyed by prescription or... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1849 - 450 σελίδες
...necessity." And a few sentences afterwards : — " The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according...according to his volition, there he is not at liberty but under necessity." * That these definitions are not perfectly correct will appear hereafter. They... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 σελίδες
...will, with infinite difliculty be entertained. — JEREMY TAYLOR. 2. LIBERTY is the power in any agent, to do or forbear any particular action, according...whereby either of them is preferred to the other. — LOCKE. 3. LIBERTY is a latitude of practice, within the compafs of law and religion, a ftanding... | |
 | 1850 - 656 σελίδες
...perhaps the action may be voluntary. So that the idea of liberty is the idea cf a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according...the determination or thought of the mind, whereby eiiherof them is preferred to the other; where either cf thorn is not in the power of the agent to... | |
 | GEORGE RIPLEY - 1852 - 670 σελίδες
...without external control. — Liberty, in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, by which either is preferred to the other. — Liberty of the press, is freedom from any restriction... | |
 | 1852 - 678 σελίδες
...without external control,— Ijiberly, in metaphysics, as opposed to necessity, is the power of an agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of tlio mind, by which either is preferred to the other. — Liberty of the press, is freedom from nny... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 σελίδες
...Necessity." And a few sentences afterwards: — "The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according...according to his volition, there he is not at Liberty but under Necessity."1 That these definitions are not perfectly correct will appear hereafter. They... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 446 σελίδες
...Necessity." And a few sentences afterwards: — "The idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according...according to his volition, there he is not at Liberty but under Necessity."1 That these definitions are not perfectly correct will appear hereafter. They... | |
 | e.r. humphreys, lld - 1856 - 200 σελίδες
...nothing inconsistent with moral liberty, which Locke defines to be, "a power in any agent to do or to forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind." It frequently happens that we are suspended between the equal attractions of two conflicting motives,... | |
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So that the idea of liberty is the idea of a power in any agent to do or forbear any particular action, according to the determination or thought of the mind, whereby either of them is preferred to the other... 
