 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 414 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling... | |
 | 1844 - 276 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted."* Some further illustrations will help to show what is meant, although the objection has always appeared... | |
 | John Saul Howson - 1846 - 116 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...passively compassionates the distressed less, he will require a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. — (Butler's Analogy, pt. I., ch.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1847 - 666 sivua
...attend to, inquire out and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. 80 also, it the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us, give us daily a less sensible... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1847 - 326 sivua
...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... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1848 - 632 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling... | |
 | Edward Arthur Smedley - 1850 - 368 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1850 - 342 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling,... | |
 | William Adams - 1850 - 392 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of mens dying around us, give us daily a less sensible passive feeling,... | |
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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... 
