 | Maria Henrietta De la Cherois-Crommelin - 1880 - 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...practical principle of action, will strengthen; and whilst ha passively compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire a greater aptitude actively to assist... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1883 - 376 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...at the same time, benevolence, considered not as a oassion, but as a practical principle of action, will strengthen: And while he passively compassionates... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 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 - 1896 - 514 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... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - 1896 - 340 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...a practical principle of action, will strengthen." ! It is perhaps not necessary to point out that Butler here uses the words " active" and " passive... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1906 - 320 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... | |
 | Hermann Henry Schroeder - 1911 - 296 sivua
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he can not but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them."1 It is because of the last named phase of the phenomenon that we so frequently judge a person... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - 1918 - 314 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...time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a j>ractical principle of action, will^trengthen."1 It is perhaps not necessary to point out that Butler... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 sivua
...must become acquainted; when yet, at * Book ii. chap. 6. (Page 56 of TAYLOR'* Tranel.) vpt. i. 40 ' the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion,...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... | |
 | G. F. Stout, G F - 2002 - 320 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...passion, but as a practical principle of action, will strengthen."1 It is perhaps not necessary to point out that Butler here uses the words "active" and... | |
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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... 
