ButlerBlackwood, 1881 - 177 páginas |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action admit affections Analogy Anthony Collins appears argument Aristotle assertion Author of nature balance of happiness benevolence bishop Bishop Butler bishop of Bristol Bristol Butler chap chapter character Christianity Church Clarke compassion conscience considered course of nature Crown 8vo Cudworth Descartes dictionary Divine doctrine doubt Durham Edinburgh Edition English ethics evidence existence faculty Fcap future GEOGRAPHY GEOLOGY happiness HENRY ALLEYNE NICHOLSON Hobbes human nature idea interest JOSEPH BUTLER kind LL.D Manual matter Matthew Tindal ment mind misery moral government moralists natural religion objections obligation ourselves passions perfect perhaps persons Philosophy practice precepts present presumption principle probably Professor proof punishment question Quintilian readers reason recognised regard reply revelation Revised Rolls Chapel rule says scheme Scripture Secker seems self-love sense sermons supposed TEXT-BOOK theory things thought tion truth vice virtue whole WILLIAM BLACKWOOD writers Zoology
Pasajes populares
Página 100 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted, by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry ; but that it is, now at length, discovered to be fictitious. And, accordingly, they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment; and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Página 77 - The Wise Man observes, that there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence. One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not at all speak from their having any thing to say, as every sentence shows, but only from their inclination to be talking.
Página 170 - Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be : Why then should we desire to be deceived?
Página 137 - Indeed, if in revelation there be found any passages, the seeming meaning of which is contrary to natural religion, we may most certainly conclude such seeming meaning not to be the real one.
Página 120 - But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ; «. e. form a habit of insensibility to all moral considerations.
Página 145 - Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout his operations; accomplishing his natural ends, by slow successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.
Página 57 - ... appeareth more probability that the same may happen to us ; for the evil that happeneth to an innocent man may happen to every man.
Página 48 - But there is a superior principle of reflection or conscience in every man, which distinguishes between the internal principles of his heart, as well as his external actions; which passes judgment upon himself and them ; pronounces determinately some actions to be in themselves just, right, good; others to be in themselves evil, wrong, unjust : Which, without being consulted, without being advised with, magisterially exerts itself, and approves or condemns him, the doer of them, accordingly...
Página 50 - Yet, let any plain, honest man, before he engages in any course of action, ask himself, Is this I am going about right, or is it wrong ? Is it good, or is it evil ? I do not in the least doubt but that this question would be answered agreeably to truth and virtue, by almost any fair man in almost any circumstance.