 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 ページ
...can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all...discussing a question of the most abstract nature, which is involved with theological tenets, which he generally would not suffer to be in any degree... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 ページ
...dependent upon 1778] 'PRIVATE VICES PUBLICK BENEFITS' 221 the exercise of will or any thing else.' JOHNSON. 'All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all...the subject any farther. I was glad to find him so mOd in discussing a question of the most abstract nature, involved with theological tenets, which be... | |
 | 1904 - 1068 ページ
...Oratory is the power of beating down your adversaries' arguments and putting better in their place." 5. " All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it." 6. "Getting money is not all a man's business : to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 ページ
...thing else.' JOHNSON. 'All theory s against the freedom of the will ; all experience for it.' — [ did not push the subject any farther. I was glad to find lim so mild in discussing a question of the most abstract lature, involved with theological tenets,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1908 - 398 ページ
...Life of Johnson " (April 1 5, 1778) by the Doctor and Boswell and Dr. Mayo. Johnson sums it up thus: "All theory is against the freedom of the will, — all experience for it." valuable. The first pleases my superstition, which you know is not small, and being not of the gloomy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 ページ
...can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the exercise of will or any thing else." JOHNSON. " All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all...discussing a question of the most abstract nature, which is involved with theological tenets, which he generally would not suffer to be in any degree... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 494 ページ
..."Marriages would in general be as happy, if not more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor," and "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it" (these from Boswell); "That stroke of death which eclipsed the gaiety of nations," from the remark... | |
 | Gustav Pollak - 1915 - 494 ページ
..."Marriages would in general be as happy, if not more so, if they were all made by the Lord Chancellor," and "All theory is against the freedom of the will, all experience for it" (these from Boswell); "That stroke of death which eclipsed the gaiety of nations," from the remark... | |
 | Chauncey Brewster Tinker - 1915 - 332 ページ
...[Lyttelton] sat down to write a book to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him.' 'All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all experience for it.' 'In republics there is not a respect for authority, but a fear of power.' Many profess to dislike such... | |
 | 1916 - 458 ページ
...wish to avoid a dogmatism for which I do not feel equal. I would wish rather to 4 Dr. Johnson said: "All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it" (Birkbeck Hill's edition of Boswell's Life, Vol. Ill, 291); and some years before, "Sir, (said he)... | |
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... to certainty, freedom ceases, because that cannot be certainly foreknown which is not certain at the time; but if it be certain at the time, it is a contradiction in terms to maintain that there can be afterwards any contingency dependent upon the... 
