 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1853 - 416 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."* Here was seen, too, how little the principle of vanity entered into the Catholic practice of alms.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 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...compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire n greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the dailv instances... | |
 | William Adams - 1857 - 380 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,... | |
 | 1857 - 380 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,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1863 - 564 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...actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the samer time that the daily instances of men's dying around us, gives us daily a less sensible passive... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1864 - 566 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...compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire a greater apti tude actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of... | |
 | W.N. CHIPPERFIELD, M.R.C.S. L.S..A - 1867 - 424 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...practical principle of action, will strengthen : and while he passively compassionates the distressed less, he will jicqiure a greater aptitude actively... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1869 - 372 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...practical principle of action, will strengthen : and while he passively compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire a greater aptitude actively... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1870 - 372 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...practical principle of action, will strengthen : and while he passively compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire a greater aptitude actively... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 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...at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a Dassion, but as a practical principle of action, will strengthen : and while he passively compassionates... | |
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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... 
