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" I know not that we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable ease and quiet; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoverned passion,... "
The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ... - Page 56
by Joseph Butler - 1820 - 239 pages
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The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author ...

Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...rashness, ungoverned passion, wilfulness, or even by negftgence, make purselves as miserable as ever we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 pages
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...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
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means ot our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...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 Course ...

Joseph Butler - 1824 - 478 pages
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...and quiet: or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungoyerned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please....
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Literae sacrae

A. Norman - 1825 - 348 pages
...argument from the natural punishment which follows intemperance. " By prudence and care," he argues, " we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...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 Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - 1829 - 326 pages
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...please to make themselves extremely miserable ; ie they do what they knew beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit of which they...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: The philosophy of the active and moral powers ...

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...we have any one kind or degree of enjoyment but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may for the most part pass our days in tolerable...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

1830 - 410 pages
...have any one kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And by prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as we please. And many do please to make themselves extremely miserable ; ie they do what they know beforehand...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 13

1833 - 444 pages
...sobriety, justice, and piety : — " soberly, righteously, and godly." — Dr. Hammond. By prudence and care we may, for the most part, pass our days in tolerable...do please to make themselves extremely miserable, — that is, to do what they know beforehand will render them so. They follow those ways, the fruit...
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The Constitution of Man Considered in Relation to External Objects

George Combe - 1834 - 250 pages
...have anyone kind or degree of enjoyment, but by the means of our own actions. And, by prudence and care, we may, for the most part, pass our days in...quiet ; or, on the contrary, we may, by rashness, ungovcrned passion, wilfulness, or even by negligence, make ourselves as miserable as ever we please....
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