 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of mens dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pages
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pages
...distressed persons, and he cannot but " grow less and less sensibly affected with the various mis" cries of life with which he must become acquainted ; " when...actively " to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time " that the daily instances of men's dying around us, give " us daily a less sensible passive... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813 - 484 pages
...they are generally merely passive. The emotions thus excited are so far from being of a painful rious miseries of life with which he must become acquainted...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them,"* The inference that naturally arises from these considerations is conclusive, and obviously supports... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...distressed persons, and he cannot '' but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various mise" ries of life with which he must become acquainted ; when...principle of action, will strengthen : and whilst ',• be passively compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire " a greater aptitude actively... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1818 - 594 pages
...attend to, inquire out and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...acquainted, when yet at the same time, benevolence as a practical principle of action will strengthen. So also, at the same time that the daily instances... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 pages
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...actively to assist and befriend them. .So also at the sane time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us ' daily a less sensible passive... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...attend to, inquire out, and reheve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected -with the various miseries of life, with...aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So nlso, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 pages
...attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which...actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible passive feeling... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...must become acquainted ; when yet, at * Book ii. chap. 0. (Page 56 ofTATiot's Tranil .) YOL. I. 40 " the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion,...strengthen : and whilst he passively compassionates UK ' distressed less, he will acquire a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend ' them. So... | |
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Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it : but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with... 
