The Works of Thomas Reid ...: With Account of His Life and Writings, Volume 4Samuel Etheridge, Jun'r., 1815 - Philosophy |
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... person who wills must have some conception , more or less distinct , of what he wills . By this , things done voluntarily are distinguished from things done merely from instinct , or merely from habit . A healthy child , some hours ...
... person who wills must have some conception , more or less distinct , of what he wills . By this , things done voluntarily are distinguished from things done merely from instinct , or merely from habit . A healthy child , some hours ...
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... person is sometimes called his will , sometimes his desire ; but when these words are used properly , they signify three different acts of the mind . The immediate object of will is some action of our own ; the object of a command is ...
... person is sometimes called his will , sometimes his desire ; but when these words are used properly , they signify three different acts of the mind . The immediate object of will is some action of our own ; the object of a command is ...
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... person should make an attempt , his insanity must first make him believe it to be in his power . A man in his sleep ... persons have re- covered the power of speech after they had lost it by a paralytical stroke , may now and then make ...
... person should make an attempt , his insanity must first make him believe it to be in his power . A man in his sleep ... persons have re- covered the power of speech after they had lost it by a paralytical stroke , may now and then make ...
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... persons do equally well , in preferring what suits their palate and their stomach . Nay , I apprehend , that the two persons who differ in their taste will , notwithstanding that difference , agree perfectly in their judgment , that ...
... persons do equally well , in preferring what suits their palate and their stomach . Nay , I apprehend , that the two persons who differ in their taste will , notwithstanding that difference , agree perfectly in their judgment , that ...
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... person agrees with his sober judgment . They think he did wrong in yielding to his passion , when he might and ought to have resisted its impulse . If they thought it impossible to bear the provocation , they would not blame him at all ...
... person agrees with his sober judgment . They think he did wrong in yielding to his passion , when he might and ought to have resisted its impulse . If they thought it impossible to bear the provocation , they would not blame him at all ...
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Page 128 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat.
Page 304 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed ; and make you a new heart and a new spirit : for why will ye die, 0 house of Israel ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God : wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Page 416 - Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. 'Tis not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian or person wholly unknown to me.
Page 303 - Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel ; is not my way equal ? are not your ways unequal...
Page 303 - will not suffer us to be tempted above what we are able to bear...
Page viii - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 128 - Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste. He ended; and his words, replete with guile, Into her heart too easy entrance won...
Page 418 - ... and is not, I meet with no proposition that is not connected with an ought, or an ought not. This change is imperceptible, but is, however, of the last consequence. For as this ought or ought not expresses some new relation or affirmation...
Page iv - I have said, that the question itself is altogether improper; and it is as insignificant to ask whether man's will be free, as to ask whether his sleep be swift, or his virtue square; liberty being as little applicable to the will, as swiftness of motion is to sleep, or squareness to virtue.
Page 303 - Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed: and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye (Ezek., 18: 27-32).