I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion,... The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ... - الصفحة 56بواسطة Joseph Butler - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 239عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Joseph Butler - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negftgence, make purselves as miserable as ever we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 256
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...please to make themselves extremely miserable, ie todo what they know before-hand will rentier them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they... | |
| Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means ot our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...do please to make themselves extremely miserable, ic to do what they know beforehand will render them so~ They follow those ways, the fruit of which... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...and quiet: or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoyerned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.... | |
| A. Norman - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...argument from the natural punishment which follows intemperance. " By prudence and care," he argues, " we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please." Again he writes, " It is certain matter of universal experience, that the general method of divine... | |
| George Combe - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...please to make themselves extremely miserable ; ie they do what they knew beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may for the most part pass our days in tolerable...negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please." Now, in so far as happiness and misery depend on ourselves, the question with respect to the permission... | |
| 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable ; ie they do what they know beforehand... | |
| 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...sobriety, justice, and piety : — " soberly, righteously, and godly." — Dr. Hammond. By prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...do please to make themselves extremely miserable, — that is, to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit... | |
| George Combe - 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...have anyone kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungovcrned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please.... | |
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