 | James Gregory - Causation - 1792 - 560 pages
...is in mind a certain independent felf- governing power, which there is not in body ; in confequence of which there is a great difference between the relation of motive and action and that of caufe and effect in phyfics ; and by means of which a perfon, in all common cafes, may, at his own... | |
 | James Gregory - Causation - 1792 - 554 pages
...pretences, as well as of difcovering errors in fcience. EDINBURGH, ' Jan. 20. 1792. ESSAY. ON , THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RELATION OF MOTIVE AND ACTION, AND THAT OF CAUSE AND EFFECT, IN PHTSICS: ON PHYSICAL AND MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES. INSANUM QUIDDAM ESSET, ET IN si CONTRARIUM, EXISTIMARE... | |
 | 1792 - 574 pages
...There is in mind a certain independent felfgoTerning power, which there is not in body ; in confequence of which there is a great difference between the relation of motive and •.; '.i'. >n, and that of caufe and effedt, in phyfics ; and by means of which a perfon, in all common... | |
 | 1793 - 752 pages
...in mind a certain independent •felf-governing power, which there is not in body : in c.jnfequence of which there is a great difference between the relation of motive and aftion, and ih .t of caiife and effcft in phyfics ; and by means of which a pe.fon, in all common cafes,... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 460 pages
...is in mind a certain independent felf-governing power, wbicb there is not in body ; in conlcquencc of which there is a .great difference between the relation of motive and action, and that oi caufe and effect, ia phyfics; and by means of which a perfon, in all common cafes, may, at his own... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 602 pages
...Physics, and of the real Nature of that Relation. These two volumes contain only one essay, On the Difference between the Relation of Motive and Action, and that of Cause and Effect in Physics, on physical and mathematical Principles. When this work appeared, it incited a considerable bustle... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...(April 27th., 17Q7) the 2d. Volume of Gregory's Essays. The distinction which he labours to establish, between the relation of motive and action, and that of cause and effect, and on which he endeavours to found the liberty of human action, is this, that in the mind there is... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...occasionally amuses himself with metaphysical speculations, favoured the world with an " Essay on the Difference between the Relation of Motive and Action, and that of Cause and Effect, in Physics;" in which he professed to take a view of the famous controverted question of liberty and necessity,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Philosophy - 1830 - 420 pages
...science.* The first work is technically wrong in its title, as it contains only one " Essay on the Difference between the Relation of Motive and Action and that of Cause and Effect, on Physical and Mathematical Principles." The first volume of the " Essays," is occupied with an Introduction,... | |
 | Edward Tagart - Hume, David, 1711-1776 - 1855 - 524 pages
...of Paley. 1790. Trembley, Essai sur les Prejugcs. 1792. Gregory, Dr. James, Philosophical Essays on the relation of Motive and Action, and that of Cause and Effect, ete. 1792. Stewart, Dugald, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind. 1793. Crombic, Dr. A., on... | |
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There is in mind a certain independent selfgoverning power which there is not in body ; in consequence of which there is a great difference between the relation of motive and action, and that of cause and effect in physics... 
