 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1740 - 488 pages
...Difgrace and Poverty and Sicknefs and untimely Death. This every one obferves to be the general Courfe of things ; though it is to be allowed, we cannot...that all our Sufferings are owing to our own Follies. Why the Author of Nature does not. give his Creatures promifcuoufly fuch and fuch Perceptions, without... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace,...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the Author of Nature does not give his creatures promiscuously such and such perceptions, without... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, exper rience, will be disgrace, and poverty, and sickness, and untimely...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the Author of Nature does not give his creatures promiscuously such and such perceptions, without... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace, und poverty, and sickness, and untimely death. This every...things ; though it is to be allowed, we cannot find by experii-nce, that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the Author of Nature does not... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...they know before-hand will rentier them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know !iy instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace,...sickness, and untimely death. This every one observes te be the general course of things; though it is to be allowed, we cannot find by experience, that... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...what they know before-hand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace,...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the author of nature does not give his creatures promiscuously such and such perceptions, without... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 478 pages
...what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace,...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the Author of Nature does not give his creatures promiscuously such and such perceptions, without... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 484 pages
...what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace,...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. Why the Author of Nature does not give his creatures promiscuously such and such perceptions, without... | |
 | Hygiene - 1830 - 398 pages
...what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they know, by instruction, example, experience,' will be disgrace and poverty, and sickness and untimely death." We shall select, as illustrations and enforcements of .these opinions, two examples derived from the... | |
 | 1833 - 444 pages
...by instruction, example, experience, will be disgrace and poverty, and untimely death. This everyone observes to be the general course of things; though...that all our sufferings are owing to our own follies. — Bishop Butler. It is very common to hear persons talk of the duties of those who are in situations... | |
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... may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even, by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable,, ie to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow... 
