 | Joseph Butler - Occasional sermons - 1749 - 536 pages
...And the Conclufion is, that to b 2 allow i allow no more to this fuperiour Principle or Part of eur Nature, than to other Parts ; to let it govern and guide only occafionally in common with the reft, as its Turn happens to come, from the Temper and Circumftances... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1803 - 280 pages
...gratification — a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is. that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in — this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man ; neither can any human creature... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...gratification : A disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in ; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man : Neither can any human creature... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1827 - 376 pages
...gratification : A disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in ; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man. Neither can any human creature be... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1834 - 480 pages
...gratification; a disapprobation of reflection " being in itself a principle manifestly superior " to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, " that to allow no more to this superior prin" ciple, or part of our nature, than to other " parts;—to let it govern or guide only occa" sionally... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 442 pages
...gratification; — a disapprobation on reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man: neither can any human creature be... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1835 - 380 pages
...gratification ; a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...nature, than to other parts ; — to let it govern or guide only occasionally in common with the rest, as its turn happens to come, from the temper and... | |
 | William Scott - Phrenology - 1837 - 422 pages
...all, to allow or forbid their gratification, being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in, this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man : neither can any human creature be... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...gratification: A disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man: Neither can any human creature be... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Theology - 1838 - 632 pages
...gratification: a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no...come, from the temper and circumstances one happens to be in; this is not to act conformably to the constitution of man : neither can any human creature be... | |
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And the conclusion is, that to allow no more to this superior principle or part of our nature, than to other parts; to let it govern and guide only occasionally in common with the rest, as its turn happens to come, from the temper and circumstances one... 
