| 1795 - 386 sivua
...punifhments, and that too depending upon circumftances within our own power. Pleafure and pain, in this world, are the confequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with a capacity of forefeeing thefe confequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions;... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 sivua
...a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions : and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, He does not sa much as preserve our lives, exclusively... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 308 sivua
...depending upon circumstances within our own power. Pleasure and pain, in this world, are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with a capacity of foreseeing these consequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions;... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 sivua
....great, part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, he does not so much as preserve our lives, exclusively... | |
| Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 sivua
...a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions; and we are endued by the author of our nature, with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We fimi by experience he does not so much as preserve our livcs,exclusi... | |
| Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 sivua
...a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions; and we are endued by the author of our nature, with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find by experience he does not so much as preserve our lives,exclusively... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 750 sivua
...depending upon circumstances within our own power. Pleasure and pain, in this world, are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature, with a capacity of foreseeing these consequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions... | |
| James Ebenezer Bicheno - 1824 - 190 sivua
...a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, he does not so much as preserve our lives, exclusively... | |
| George Combe - 1829 - 326 sivua
...and A GREAT PART OF WHAT WE SUFFER, IS put ill OUT pOWKT* For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences.' ' I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 sivua
...great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power ; for pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities for foreseeing these consequences. We find by experience he does not so much as preserve our lives,... | |
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