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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...

The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and additions ... - Página 318
por James Boswell - 1816
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 596 páginas

...infer the author leaned to that side of the question ; — but we have no intention of following him. ' All theory is against the freedom of the will ; all experience for it,' said J olmson in conversing upon this question ; ' we feel that we are free, and there's an end on't.'...

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