The Monthly Review, Or, Literary JournalR. Griffiths, 1793 - Books |
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Page 210
... action ; or , in other words , we know that action has hitherto been uniformly pre- ceded by motive . To tell us that our future actions may find accafions , any or all of them , to exift without motives , would be to affert fomething ...
... action ; or , in other words , we know that action has hitherto been uniformly pre- ceded by motive . To tell us that our future actions may find accafions , any or all of them , to exift without motives , would be to affert fomething ...
Page 331
... action of a mind , as we do of the beginning of motion in body , because body cannot move itfelf ; but the actions of mind are from itself , and therefore must have no cause afked of them ; for that would be to deny mind to be an active ...
... action of a mind , as we do of the beginning of motion in body , because body cannot move itfelf ; but the actions of mind are from itself , and therefore must have no cause afked of them ; for that would be to deny mind to be an active ...
Page 332
... action , but it had it in its power to have forborn it , even with the fame entire view and fenfation of all thofe circum- ftances upon account of which it determined itfelf to act . This en- tire freedom of action feems to most perfons ...
... action , but it had it in its power to have forborn it , even with the fame entire view and fenfation of all thofe circum- ftances upon account of which it determined itfelf to act . This en- tire freedom of action feems to most perfons ...
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