 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...a great Part of what we fuffer, is puf in our own Power. For Pleafure and Pain are the Confequences of our Actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with Capacities of forefeeing thefe Confequences. We find by Experience He does not fb much as preferve our Lives, exclufively... | |
 | English essays - 1795 - 386 pages
...depending upon circumftances within our own power. Pleafure and pain, in this world, are the confequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with a capacity of forefeeing thefe confequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions;... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions : and we are endued...with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, He does not sa much as preserve our lives, exclusively of our own care and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 272 pages
...and that too depending upon circumstances within our own power. Pleasure and pain, in this world, are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature with a capacity of foreseeing these consequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions;... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...we enjoy, and a .great, part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued...with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, he does not so much as preserve our lives, exclusively of our own care and... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions; and we are endued...with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We fimi by experience he does not so much as preserve our livcs,exclusi vely of our own care and attention... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, M put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions; and we are endued by the Author of oor nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. AVe fiud by experience He does not so... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions; and we are endued...with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find by experience he does not so much as preserve our lives,exclusively of our own care and attention... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 750 pages
...and that too depending upon circumstances within our own power. Pleasure and pain, in this world, are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our nature, with a capacity of foreseeing these consequences. All the good of this world depends upon our own exertions... | |
 | James Ebenezer Bicheno - Poor laws - 1824 - 190 pages
...which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued...with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. We find, by experience, he does not so much as preserve our lives, exclusively of our own care and... | |
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Now, in the present state, all which we enjoy, and a great part of what we suffer, is put in our own power. For pleasure and pain are the consequences of our actions ; and we are endued by the Author of our Nature with capacities of foreseeing these consequences. 
