 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - Self-culture - 1851 - 496 pages
...in others that practical sense of it which a man really has himself, is a virtuous act. All these, therefore, may and will contribute towards forming...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,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 pages
...virtuous act. All these, therefore, may ai*d. will contribute towards forming good habits. But, going ovei 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,... | |
 | Richard Whately - Oratory - 1853 - 564 pages
...citing) of the last unpublished Charge I had occasion to deliver. " ' Going over,' says Bishop Butler, ' 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,... | |
 | Aristotle - Ethics - 1853 - 444 pages
...into act, or acting upon them ; — the principle! of obedience, of veracity, justice, and charity. But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine picturea of it, may harden the mind in a contrary course, and render it gradually more insensible ;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...chanced to cast my eyes on those relating to this matter."] NOTE U, p. 4C3. — Imagination. (§ 5.) " 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 hahit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...LP Thummig was & rciil man mul a veritable author.— Ed. NOTE U, p. 463. — Imagination, (g 5.) " 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,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1854 - 514 pages
...treating of our moral * The following reasoning was suggested to me hy a passage in Butler's Anulogy. " Going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and di.iwing fine'pictures of it, this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 556 pages
...citing) of the last unpublished Charge I had occasion to deliver. " ' Going over,' says Bishop Butler, ' 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,... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1855 - 560 pages
...citing) of the last unpublished Charge I had occasion to deliver. " ' Going over,' says Bishop Butler, ' 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,... | |
 | 1857 - 380 pages
...in others that practical sense of it which a man really has himself, is a virtuous act. All these, therefore, may and will contribute towards forming...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,... | |
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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... 
