Book,  Chapter

 1     II,  I     |       they are taken in the very act, waked in the middle of
 2     II,  VIII  |     other two are only powers to act differently upon other things:
 3     II,  XXI   |    Perception, which we make the act of the understanding, is
 4     II,  XXI   |       indifferency of ability to act, or to forbear acting, there
 5     II,  XXI   |         wanting, or the power to act or forbear according to
 6     II,  XXI   |      perhaps best to express the act of volition, does it not
 7     II,  XXI   |     Volition, it is plain, is an act of the mind knowingly exerting
 8     II,  XXI   |         distinct beings that can act, (as we do, when we say
 9     II,  XXI   |        has or has not a power to act.~20. Liberty belongs not
10     II,  XXI   |         free to will as he is to act what he wills. Concerning
11     II,  XXI   |        respect of willing or the act of volition, when any action
12     II,  XXI   |          that, in respect of the act of willing, a man in such
13     II,  XXI   |         consisting in a power to act or not to act; which, in
14     II,  XXI   |         a power to act or not to act; which, in regard of volition,
15     II,  XXI   |         truly voluntary. But the act of volition, or preferring
16     II,  XXI   |          man, in respect of that act of willing, is under a necessity,
17     II,  XXI   |         consisting in a power to act or to forbear acting, and
18     II,  XXI   |      willing, has not a power to act or not to act, wherein consists
19     II,  XXI   |         a power to act or not to act, wherein consists liberty.
20     II,  XXI   |        viz. in our being able to act or not to act, according
21     II,  XXI   |      being able to act or not to act, according as we shall choose
22     II,  XXI   |        volition or willing is an act of the mind directing its
23     II,  XXI   |       endeavoured to express the act of volition, by choosing,
24     II,  XXI   |         other words to mark that act of the mind whose proper
25     II,  XXI   |           it being a very simple act, whosoever desires to understand
26     II,  XXI   |         is the last time he will act against the attainment of
27     II,  XXI   |  intelligent being designedly to act for an end, only to lose
28     II,  XXI   |          labour; for so it is to act for what is judged not attainable;
29     II,  XXI   |     nature, to desire, will, and act according to the last result
30     II,  XXI   |         want of indifferency. to act, or not to act, till determined
31     II,  XXI   |  indifferency. to act, or not to act, till determined by the
32     II,  XXI   |    constraint it puts upon us to act for it, nobody, I think,
33     II,  XXI   |       and he that has a power to act or not to act, according
34     II,  XXI   |         a power to act or not to act, according as such determination
35     II,  XXI   |        at liberty to forbear the act of volition: he must exert
36     II,  XXI   |       volition: he must exert an act of his will, whereby the
37     II,  XXI   |       Here a man may suspend the act of his choice from being
38     II,  XXI   |      this: Liberty is a power to act or not to act, according
39     II,  XXI   |         a power to act or not to act, according as the mind directs.
40     II,  XXI   |       that my operative power to act, or not to act, still remains;
41     II,  XXI   |          power to act, or not to act, still remains; the power
42     II,  XXI   |    indifferency of that power to act, or not to act, is just
43     II,  XXI   |          power to act, or not to act, is just as it was before,
44     II,  XXII  |         it has its unity from an act of the mind, combining those
45     II,  XXII  |       they exert this power into act, are called causes, and
46     II,  XXIII |       but material things. Every act of sensation, when duly
47     II,  XXV   |       man, and refers only to an act of that thing called man
48     II,  XXVII |         be done without a reflex act of perception accompanying
49     II,  XXVII |        being the same individual act, why one intellectual substance
50     II,  XXVIII|          to one another, is some act whereby any one comes by
51    III,  IV    |       than this definition:—“The act of a being in power, as
52    III,  IV    |       Definitions of light. “The act of perspicuous, as far forth
53    III,  VI    |       him; and the other for the act of committing disloyalty),
54     IV,  I     |       diversity. It is the first act of the mind, when it has
55     IV,  III   |    regularly, we may conclude do act by a law set them; but yet
56     IV,  VII   |       ideas: and it is the first act of the mind (without which
57     IV,  IX    | perception that we are. In every act of sensation, reasoning,
58     IV,  XI    |     ourselves that our faculties act and inform us right concerning
59     IV,  XI    |   material beings. For we cannot act anything but by our faculties;
60     IV,  XI    |       rational propositions, and act contrary to very plain and
61     IV,  XV    |           reason, discourse—nay, act upon, are such as we cannot
62     IV,  XV    |    assent to them as firmly, and act, according to that assent,
63     IV,  XVI   |     knowledge; and we reason and act thereupon with as little
64     IV,  XVII  |        is looked on as the great act of the rational faculty,
65     IV,  XVII  |          their ease, but were to act according to the result
66     IV,  XVII  |         about; yet the principal act of ratiocination is the
67     IV,  XIX   |         the whole man is sure to act more vigorously where the