 | 1801 - 618 pages
...at all. . Axiom 3d. All practical principles must either be founded in truth, or believed to be to for the moment that they operate. These axioms being taken for granted, our author supposes the doctrine of necessity to be true, and that its truth is discovered to us in... | |
 | Biography - 1804 - 646 pages
...rational being will make any attempt or exertion at all. Axiom 3d. All practical principles must either be founded in truth, or believed to be so, for the...they operate. These axioms being taken for granted, our authorsupposes the doctrine of necessity to be true, and C c 4 that that its truth is discovered... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...being will make any attempt or exertion at all. 3d. AH practical principles must either be (bunded in truth, or believed to be so for the moment that they operate. These axioms being admitted, this author first supposes the doctrine of necessity to be Hue, and that its truth is discovered... | |
 | Scotland - 1821 - 800 pages
...made, is with a design, or in hopes of obtaining some end. 3. All practical principles must either be founded in truth, or believed to be so for the moment that they operate." From these premises, he infers, " that where the doctrine of necessity is firmly believed, and made... | |
 | England - 1821 - 778 pages
...made, is with a design, or in hopes of obtaining some end. 3. All practical principles must either be founded in truth, or believed to be so for the moment that they" operate." From these premises, he infers, " that where the doctrine of necessity is firmly believed, and made... | |
 | Alfred Lyall - Truth - 1830 - 682 pages
...with a design, or in ' hopes of obtaining some end.' III. ' All practical principles must 1 either be founded in truth, or believed 'to be so for the moment that they ' operate.' From these premises he infers that where the doctrine of necessity is firmly believed, and made use... | |
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... that every action, or exertion, voluntarily made, is with a design, or in hopes of obtaining some end. For, it is evident, that where there is a full conviction of the impossibility of this, no rational being will make any attempt or exertion at all.... 