 | 1844 - 428 pages
...virtue, and when any one well considers it, I think he will as plainly perceive that liberty which is but a power ; belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will which is also but a power. It is plain that the will is nothing but one... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - 1845 - 258 pages
...said, that it is absurd to inquire whether " the will be free or no ; inasmuch as liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of will, which is also but a power." Though Mr. Locke applied this remark to the usual... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 588 pages
...virtue : and when any one well considers it, I think he will as plainly perceive, that liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but a power. 15. Volition. — Such is the difficulty of... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...virtue ; and when any one well considers it, I think he will as plainly perceive that liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but a power. SECT. 15. Volition. — Such is the difficulty... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 438 pages
...Illustrations of Philofophical Ne- \ |§ xiv.] able and unintelligible ; inasmuch as liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but &poiver."1 To this remark of Locke it may be added,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 444 pages
...1.] 1782; p. 35, edit. London, 1777.— Sect. able and unintelligible; inasmuch as liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but & power."1 To this remark of Locke it may be added,... | |
 | Robert Plues - 1862 - 80 pages
...virtue: and when any one well considers it, I think he will as plainly perceive> that Liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the Will." Is it not strange, that, with this philosophy of LOCKE before him, EDWARDS... | |
 | William Fleming - 1867 - 450 pages
...noted by Hobbes, has said (-Essay on Hum. Understand., book ii. ch. 21), that, " Liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the Will ; which is also but a power."1 To the same effect Edwards has said (Inquiry,... | |
 | William Fleming - 1870 - 458 pages
...been noted by Hobbes, has said (Essay on Hum. Understand., book ii. ch. 21), that, " Liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the Will ; which is also but a power."1 To the same effect Edwards has said (Inquiry,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1876 - 598 pages
...per' Concerning Human Understanding,' b. ii., ch. xxi., §§ 8 — 10. ceive that liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but a power." l Of course the world is very loth to adopt... | |
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I think he will as plainly perceive that liberty, which is but a power, belongs only to agents, and cannot be an attribute or modification of the will, which is also but a power. 
