 | Robert Plues - 1862 - 80 pages
...is—"Concerning the notion of Liberty, and of moral agency." First, Liberty or freedom is defined as the " power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases." This, in words, is little different from our own, viz., " it is the having a will in any matter." The... | |
 | Theology - 1861 - 928 pages
...Church of Scotland," appended to most editions of the " Inquiry." Edwards defines liberty as " the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting in any respect, according to his pleasure ; without considering how his pleasure comes to... | |
 | Daniel Denison Whedon - Religion - 1864 - 460 pages
...in the following words : "The plain and obvious meaning of the words ByEdwards. „,-,,., . ° . . freedom and liberty, in common speech, is power, opportunity,...impediment in the way of doing or conducting, in any respect, as he will." Of this definition of liberty he boasts in words of great pomp and defiance,... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1864 - 432 pages
...what he understands by freedom. " Liberty, as I have explained it, p. 38, and other places, is the power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases, or conducting in any respect according to his pleasure, without considering how Jiis pleasure comes to... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Free will and determinism - 1865 - 482 pages
...II. LIBEBTY AS DEFINED BY EDWARDS. OF the term liberty, so important in this inquiry, Edwards says, " The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom...pleases / or, in other words, his being free from hindrance, or impediment in the way of doing, or conducting in any respect as he wills.* And the contrary... | |
 | Rowland Gibson Hazard - Free will and determinism - 1865 - 490 pages
...II. LIBERTY AS DEFINED BY EDWARDS. OF the term liberty, so important in this inquiry, Edwards says, " The plain and obvious meaning of the words Freedom...pleases ; or, in other words, his being free from hindrance, or impediment in the way of doing, or conducting in any respect as he wills* And the contrary... | |
 | William Robinson - Bible - 1866 - 374 pages
...prodigious effort to sustain that truism. Equally unsuccessful is Edwards where he says " Liberty is the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases, or of conducting himself according to his pleasure." Most readers it may be presumed would suppose him... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - Free will and determinism - 1867 - 412 pages
...motives, aiming at different ends, and looking through different mediums and from different standpoints. " The plain and obvious meaning of the words freedom...he pleases. Or, in other words, his being free from hindrance or impediment in the way of doing, or conducting in any respect as he wills.''* Such is the... | |
 | John McClintock - Bible - 1881 - 1138 pages
...accepted the definition of Locke and of the sensational school, making the liberty of the human will " the power, opportunity, or advantage that any one has to do as he pleases;" in other words, one's ability freely to txtml?. volitions philosophically or coactively necessitated.... | |
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THE plain and obvious meaning of the words freedom and liberty, in common speech, is power, opportunity, or advantage, that any one has to do as he pleases. 
