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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... "
The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects - Page 81
by George Combe - 1840 - 110 pages
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Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 1

Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet : or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even, by negligence, make ourselves as miserable...please to make themselves extremely miserable,, ie to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they...
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The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author ...

Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negftgence, make purselves 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 those ways, the fruit of which they...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet; or, on the contrary, we may by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable...please to make themselves extremely miserable, ie todo what they know before-hand will rentier them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they...
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The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and ...

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet : Or, on the contrary, we may by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable...do please to make themselves extremely miserable, ic to do what they know beforehand will render them so~ They follow those ways, the fruit of which...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet; or, on the contrary, we may by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable...please to make themselves extremely miserable, ie to do what they know before-hand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they...
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The Analogy of Religion Natural and Revealed to the Constitution and Course ...

Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 478 pages
...ever we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable, *. e. to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those...disgrace, and poverty, and sickness, and untimely death. This every one observes to be the general course of things ; though it is to be allowed, we cannot...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 484 pages
...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 those...disgrace, and poverty, and sickness and untimely death. This every one observes to be the general course of things ; though it is to be allowed, we cannot...
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Literae sacrae

A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please." Again he writes, " It is certain matter of universal experience, that the general method of divine...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...tolerable ease and quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please." Now, in so far as happiness and misery depend on ourselves, the question with respect to the permission...
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The Journal of Health, Volume 1

Hygiene - 1830 - 398 pages
...as we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable ; ie they do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those...disgrace and poverty, and sickness and untimely death." We shall select, as illustrations and enforcements of .these opinions, two examples derived from the...
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