 | Joseph Butler - 1839 - 362 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted ; when...benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principal of action, will strengthen ; and, whilst he passively compassionates the distressed less,... | |
 | Woman - 1840 - 806 σελίδες
...action, are called " active principles" — observe lower down where the expression is so explained, " benevolence considered not as a passion, but as a practical principle of ctction" t See Note C. at the end of the volume. habit of acting with a constant view to it. And this... | |
 | 1844 - 546 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but erow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted ; when...principle of action, will strengthen ; and whilst he passivelycnmpassionatesthedistressed less.hewill acquire a greater aptitude actively to assist and... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1843 - 358 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted ; when...benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principal of action, will strengthen ; and, whilst he passively compassionates the distressed less,... | |
 | 1844 - 276 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted ; when...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. — ARCHBISHOP WHATKLY. BE HUMBLE. TRIUMPH not, frail man; tliou art Too weak a thing to boast ; Thou... | |
 | John Saul Howson - 1846 - 116 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted, when...passively compassionates the distressed less, he will require a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. — (Butler's Analogy, pt. I., ch.... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1847 - 326 σελίδες
...when yet, at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principal of action, will strengthen; and, whilst he passively...acquire a greater aptitude actively to assist and befjiend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily... | |
 | William Adams - 1850 - 392 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted, when...also at the same time that the daily instances of mens dying around us, give us daily a less sensible passive feeling, or apprehension of our own mortality,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the varicus miseries of life, with which he must become acquainte,d ; when...benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical principal of action, will strengthen ; and, whilst he passively compassionates the distressed less,... | |
 | 1852 - 460 σελίδες
...distressed persons, and he cannot bnt grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted; when...he passively compassionates the distressed less, he wilt acquiie a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them," &c. These remarks of both these... | |
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Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it : but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with... 
