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" ... mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together, that practical habits are formed and strengthened by repeated acts, and that passive impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us, it must follow,... "
The Excellency of the Female Character Vindicated: Being an Investigation ... - Page 109
by Thomas Branagan - 1828 - 280 pages
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The Works of Joseph Butler: Divided Into Sections; with Sectional ..., Volume 1

Joseph Butler - 1896 - 512 pages
...of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together ; that practical habits are formed and strengthened...acting upon such and such motives and excitements, whilst these motives and excitements themselves are, by proportionable degrees, growing less sensible,...
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Studies Subsidiary to the Works of Bishop Butler, Volume 1

William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 pages
...of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together ; that practical habits are formed and strengthened...acting upon such and such motives and excitements, whilst these motives and excitements themselves are, by proportionable degrees, growing less sensible,...
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Analytic Psychology, Volume 1

George Frederick Stout - 1896 - 340 pages
...Butler makes a distinction between active and passive habits, and he lays it down as a general principle that " practical habits are formed and strengthened...impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us ".1 We can, of course, admit no such distinction. I f familiarity with danger lessen fear, it is because...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural & Revealed

Joseph Butler - 1906 - 320 pages
...of others' mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together — that practical habits are formed and...acting upon such and such motives and excitements, whilst these motives and excitements themselves are, by proportionable degrees, growing less sensible;...
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An Introduction to the Study of Pastoral Theology

Clement Francis Rogers - 1912 - 300 pages
...of habit finds obvious illustrations in normal religious life. Long ago Bishop Butler 2 pointed out that ' practical habits are formed and strengthened...passive impressions grow weaker by being repeated on us ', and used the facts for apologetic purposes to support the belief that in this world we are...
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Analytic Psychology, Volume 1

George Frederick Stout - 1918 - 314 pages
...Butler makes a distinction between active and passive habits, and he lays it down as a general principle that " practical habits are formed and strengthened...impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us ".' We can, of course, admit no such distinction. If familiarity with danger lessen fear, it is because...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 660 pages
...and strengthen" ed by repeated acts ; and that passive impressions grow weaker by being repeat" ed upon us ; it must follow, that active habits may be...acting upon such and such motives and excitements, " whilst these motives and excitements themselves are, by proportionable degrees, " growing less sensible,...
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Analytic Psychology, Volume 13

G. F. Stout, G F - 2002 - 320 pages
...Butler makes a distinction between active and passive habits, and he lays it down as a general principle that " practical habits are formed and strengthened...impressions grow weaker by being repeated upon us ".' We can, of course, admit no such distinction. If familiarity with danger lessen fear, it is because...
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The Analogy of Religion

Joseph Butler - 2005 - 401 pages
...of others'mortality, lessens the sensible apprehension of our own. And from these two observations together, that practical habits are formed and strengthened...it must follow that active habits may be gradually <*»*gw«'w<«k forming and strengthening, by a course of acting upon such and such motives and excitements,...
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lectures on teaching

496 pages
...intrepidity, ie lessens fear, and to distress lessens the emotion of pity. And from these two observations together, that practical habits are formed and strengthened...passive impressions grow weaker by being repeated, it may follow that motives and excitements (to right action) are continually less and less consciously...
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