 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 430 sivua
...action. The doctrine of Bishop Butler is that, " From our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often...sensibly ; being accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, — that is, lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion of pity; to instances of others' mortality,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 418 sivua
...action. The doctrine of Bishop Butler is that, " From our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often...sensibly ; being accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, — that is, lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion of pity ; to instances of others' mortality,... | |
 | F. C. Blyth - 1881 - 402 sivua
...possible, then easy, then unavoidable, then indispensable.5 So Bishop Butler says, in his Analogy, "Thoughts, by often passing through the mind, are...sensibly ; being accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, that is, lessens fear ; for, from our very faculties of habits, passing impressions, by being repeated,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1883 - 376 sivua
...insensibility to all moral considerations. For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often...mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. From these two observations together, that practical habits are formed and strengthened by repeated... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - 1886 - 408 sivua
...harden the mind in a contrary course. . . . For, from our very faculty of habit, passive impressions by being repeated grow weaker. Thoughts by often passing...accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear, and to distress lessens the emotion of pity. And from these two observations together, that practical... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1857 - 596 sivua
...from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, lay often passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly...to danger begets intrepidity, ie, lessens fear; to instances of others mortality lessens the sensible apprehensions of our own.' Berkeley, however, could... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1887 - 330 sivua
...insensibility to all moral considerations. For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often...intrepidity — ie, lessens fear ; to distress, lessens 4:he passion of pity ; to instances of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 sivua
...passing " tbrough the mind, are felt less sensibly : being accustomed to danger, begets iu" trepidity, ie lessens fear ; to distress, lessens the passion...observations together, that practical habits are formed and strengthen" ed by repeated acts ; and that passive impressions grow weaker by being repeat" ed upon... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 2005 - 401 sivua
...passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly; being accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, that is, lessens fear; to distress, lessens the passion of pity; to instances of others'mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together,... | |
 | 496 sivua
...harden the mind in a contrary course. * * For from our very faculty of habit, passive impressions, by being repeated grow weaker. Thoughts by often passing...accustomed to danger begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear, and to distress lessens the emotion of pity. And from these two observations together, that practical... | |
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For, from our very faculty of habits, passive impressions, by being repeated, grow weaker. Thoughts, by often passing through the mind, are felt less sensibly: being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, ie lessens fear; to distress, lessens the passion... 
