 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 Seiten
...has yet been given. " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, The absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As, for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend by the channel... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 Seiten
...has yet been given. " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, The absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As, for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend by the channel... | |
 | Gustav Ferdinand Bockshammer - 1835 - 216 Seiten
...necessity, or rather for a liberty which was nothing better than necessity. His definition of liberty was : The absence of all impediments to action that are...in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. 48 , tation of the deep night in which he lives, he must previously have enjoyed the intuition of light.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 530 Seiten
...Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend by the channel of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 538 Seiten
...Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have- liberty to descend by the channel... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1836 - 526 Seiten
...Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent, as for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend by the channel of... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1839 - 310 Seiten
...clearer manner than any of its advocates : " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly defined, — the absence of all impediments to action, that are...in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As for example, the water is said to descend freely, or is said to have liberty to descend by the channel... | |
 | Henry Philip Tappan - 1839 - 312 Seiten
...clearer manner than any of its advocates : " I conceive," says he, " liberty to be rightly denned, — the absence of all impediments to action, that are...in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As for example, the water is said to descend freely, or is said to have liberty to descend by the channel... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 492 Seiten
...Fifthly, I conceive liberty to be rightly defined in this manner : Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As for example, the water is said to descend freely, VOL. IV. T or to have liberty to descend by the... | |
 | 1864 - 940 Seiten
...keen a logician to undertake. Hobbes, as before mentioned, more precisely defines liberty thus : it is the " absence of all impediments to action that are...the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent." 3 It is here that he gives the much-quoted illustration : " water is said to descend freely, or to... | |
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Liberty is the absence of all the impediments to action that are not contained in the nature and intrinsical quality of the agent. As for example, the water is said to descend freely, or to have liberty to descend by the channel of the river, because... 
