 | William Mackergo Taylor - 1893 - 332 pages
...practical habits strengthen by exercise ; so that we come to the conclusion thus expressed by Butler, that active habits may be gradually forming and strengthening...acting upon such and such motives and excitements, whilst these motives and excitements are by proportionate degrees "growing less sensible, that is,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | George Frederick Stout - 1896 - 338 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1921 - 662 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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... 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,... 
