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... implies a knowledge of human nature . To understand what man ought to do , it is neces- sary to know what man is . Not that the Moral Philosopher , before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly be- long to him , must go over the ...
... implies a knowledge of human nature . To understand what man ought to do , it is neces- sary to know what man is . Not that the Moral Philosopher , before entering upon those inquiries which peculiarly be- long to him , must go over the ...
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... imply power , -power to originate or produce change , or power to receive or undergo change . Passive virtue and Active power are both recognized . The exercise of any power or faculty may be called an Act or Action . Acts are ...
... imply power , -power to originate or produce change , or power to receive or undergo change . Passive virtue and Active power are both recognized . The exercise of any power or faculty may be called an Act or Action . Acts are ...
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... imply knowledge and intention , it is said that they must be either right or wrong . An action considered in specie , is a mere abstraction . A human action is an agent acting deliberately , and his action must either be in accordance ...
... imply knowledge and intention , it is said that they must be either right or wrong . An action considered in specie , is a mere abstraction . A human action is an agent acting deliberately , and his action must either be in accordance ...
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... imply knowledge nor design . When the agent does not determine to do the action , or when he is compelled to do what he determined not to do , his action is Involuntary - or rather it is no action of his at all . What is done is the ...
... imply knowledge nor design . When the agent does not determine to do the action , or when he is compelled to do what he determined not to do , his action is Involuntary - or rather it is no action of his at all . What is done is the ...
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... implies neither affirmation nor negation , and therefore cannot have the qualities of true or false , which distinguish propositions from all other forms of speech , and judgments from all other acts of mind . " 6 3. Cognitions are ...
... implies neither affirmation nor negation , and therefore cannot have the qualities of true or false , which distinguish propositions from all other forms of speech , and judgments from all other acts of mind . " 6 3. Cognitions are ...
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Page 322 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Page 134 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page 222 - Calvinism presents, it cannot be denied that " such knowledge is too wonderful for us; it is high, we cannot attain unto it.
Page 175 - By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctly.
Page 112 - But whatsoever is the object of any man's appetite or desire, that is it which he for his part calleth 'good'; and the object of his hate and aversion, 'evil'; and of his contempt 'vile' and 'inconsiderable.' For these words of good, evil, and contemptible, are ever used with relation to the person that useth them, there being nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common rule of good and evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves...
Page 383 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass: in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Page 109 - ... determinately some actions to be in themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust, which, without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns him the doer of them accordingly; and which, if not forcibly stopped, naturally and always of course goes on to anticipate a higher and more effectual sentence which shall hereafter second and affirm its own.
Page 362 - Too wide for Neptune's hips; how chances mock, And changes fill the cup of alteration With divers liquors! O, if this were seen, The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book and sit him down and die.
Page 225 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 76 - For there are in nature certain fountains of justice, whence all civil laws are derived but as streams: and like as waters do take tinctures and tastes from the soils through which they run, so do civil laws vary according to the regions \ 7 and governments where they are planted, though they proceed from the same fountains.