The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God, Joseph Butler ...: Sermons. A charge delivered to the clergy at the primary visitation of the diocese of Durham, in the year MDCCLI. Notes to the charge, by the editor. Correspondence between Dr. Butler and Dr. ClarkeAt the Clarendon Press, 1820 |
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الصفحة xxv
... benevolence is not more unfriendly to self - love , than any other particular affection whatever . There is a strange affectation in many people of ex- plaining away all particular affections , and representing the whole of life as ...
... benevolence is not more unfriendly to self - love , than any other particular affection whatever . There is a strange affectation in many people of ex- plaining away all particular affections , and representing the whole of life as ...
الصفحة xxviii
... benevolence is no more difinterested than any of the common particular paffionsk , feems in itself worth being taken notice of ; but is insisted upon to obviate that fcorn , which one fees rifing upon the faces of people who are faid to ...
... benevolence is no more difinterested than any of the common particular paffionsk , feems in itself worth being taken notice of ; but is insisted upon to obviate that fcorn , which one fees rifing upon the faces of people who are faid to ...
الصفحة xxix
... benevolence , virtue and intereft , are not to be opposed , but only to be distin- guished from each other ; in the fame way as virtue and any other particular affection , love of arts , fuppofe , are to be distinguished . Every thing ...
... benevolence , virtue and intereft , are not to be opposed , but only to be distin- guished from each other ; in the fame way as virtue and any other particular affection , love of arts , fuppofe , are to be distinguished . Every thing ...
الصفحة xxx
... Benevolence towards particular persons may be to a degree of weakness , and fo be blameable and difinterestedness is so far from being in itself commendable , that the utmost poffible depravity which we can in imagination conceive , is ...
... Benevolence towards particular persons may be to a degree of weakness , and fo be blameable and difinterestedness is so far from being in itself commendable , that the utmost poffible depravity which we can in imagination conceive , is ...
الصفحة xxxi
Joseph Butler. ticular paffions unfriendly to benevolence , and which happen to be most prevalent in them , much more than to felf - love . As a proof of this may be obferved , that there is no character more void of friendship , grati ...
Joseph Butler. ticular paffions unfriendly to benevolence , and which happen to be most prevalent in them , much more than to felf - love . As a proof of this may be obferved , that there is no character more void of friendship , grati ...
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action affection affift againſt almoſt alſo amongſt anſwer appetites arife Balaam becauſe behaviour benevolence buſineſs cafe caſe cauſe charity Chriſtianity circumſtances compaffion confcience confequence confider confideration confifts conftitution courfe courſe creatures defign defire degree diftinct evil exerciſe exiſtence faid fame fatisfaction feems felf-love fellow-creatures felves fenfe ferve feveral fhall fhow fince firſt fociety fome fomewhat fubject fuch fuperior fuppofe furely goodneſs greateſt happineſs hath himſelf inftances inftruction injury intereſt itſelf juſt leaſt lefs leſs likewife manifeft mankind meaſure mifery mind Moab moft moral moſt muft muſt nature neceffarily neceffary neighbour obfervation object occafion otherwiſe ourſelves paffion particular perfons plainly pleaſure poffible preſent principle purpoſes purſuit queſtion raiſed reaſon refentment religion reſpect reſtraint ſame ſay ſcarce ſee ſeems ſenſe ſeveral ſhall ſhould ſhow ſome ſpace ſpeak ſtate ſuch ſuppoſe temper thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe tion underſtanding uſe vice virtue wiſdom
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الصفحة 155 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds : but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children ; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom and was unto him as a daughter.
الصفحة 265 - He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
الصفحة 238 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
الصفحة 354 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and open unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
الصفحة 238 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
الصفحة 276 - Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners ; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing.
الصفحة 283 - For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward ; how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him...
الصفحة 347 - Civil liberty, the liberty of a community, is a severe and a restrained thing ; implies in the notion of it, authority, settled subordinations, subjection, and obedience ; and is altogether as much hurt by too little of this kind, as by too much of it.
الصفحة 104 - Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, And bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, With calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first-born for my transgression, The fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
الصفحة xvii - Whereas, in reality, the very constitution of our nature requires, that we bring our whole conduct before this superior faculty; wait its determination; enforce upon ourselves its authority; and make it the business of our lives as it is absolutely the whole business of a moral agent, to conform ourselves to it This is the true meaning of that ancient precept, Reverence thyself.