 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 504 pages
...agency of man is univerfally felt and believed : That though man in truth is a neceffary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...it ? Does the author of nature conceal it, — and do thefe writers difcover it! What deference is * In the former editions of this Eflay, a particular... | |
 | James Beattie (LL.D.) - Truth - 1807 - 400 pages
...agency of man is universally felt and believed : That though man in truth is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...it ? Does the Author of nature conceal it, — and do these writers discover it ! What deference is not due to the judgment of a metaphysician, whose... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...control, he is in the strictest sense impelled by an unalterable necessity : yet this law of his conduct being concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent ; and as his whole conduct is regulated by this conviction, he is thus equally capable of virtue and... | |
 | George Gleig (bp. of Brechin.) - 1827 - 1124 pages
...to the common sense of mankind, by saying, " that though man is in truth a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of teing a free agen«" That is, the Author of naiure has concealed from mankind that they are necessary... | |
 | Theyre Townsend Smith - Sermons, English - 1838 - 526 pages
...agency of man is universally felt and believed : that though man, in truth, is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...conviction of being a free agent. — Concealed from him !" exclaims this writer, " Who conceals it ? Does the Author of nature conceal it, — and do these... | |
 | Richard Hobart - Apologetics - 1848 - 262 pages
...incredible * Hume goes so far as to affirm, " that, though man, in truth, is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...he acts with the conviction of being a free agent." Who conceals it? Doe%the Author of nature conceal it, and this writer discover it ? To laugh were want... | |
 | Richard Hobart - Apologetics - 1848 - 264 pages
...is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable laws, yet, this beiug concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent.'' Who conceals it ? Does the Author of nature conceal it, and this writer discover it ? To laugh were... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Natural theology - 1859 - 240 pages
...incredible * Hume goes so far as to affirm, "'that, though man, in truth, is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable...he acts with the conviction of being a free agent." Who conceals it? Does the Author of nature conceal it, and this writer discover it ? To laugh were... | |
 | William Fleming - Ethics - 1867 - 450 pages
...have a natural conviction or belief that we act freely. " Though man in truth is a necessary agent ; yet, this being concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent." The conviction or belief is not founded on the truth and reality of things, but it is given for wise... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1869 - 372 pages
...is a necessary agent, having all hia actions determined by fixed and immutable laws, yet, this beiug concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent" Which is the same as to say that God intended to conceal from men ap important fact, involving the... | |
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That though man in truth is a necessary agent, having all his actions determined by fixed and immutable laws ; yet, this being concealed from him, he acts with the conviction of being a free agent... 
