 | Bibliography - 1776 - 646 pages
...thole tranfadions, which we read in hirtory." I thought little of this odd conceit of the bifhop's at that juncture : but I own I could not avoid thinking of it a great deal fince, and applying it to many cafes." Why this anecdote is introduced, unlefs it is meant as altogether... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - Biography - 1839 - 586 pages
...this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which...great deal since, and applying it to many cases." Dr. Tucker, who has preserved this reminiscence of the author of the Analogy, was born in 1712, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 606 pages
...this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which...Bishop at that juncture ; but I own I could not avoid thuiVmg of it a great deal since, and applying it to many cases.1 What an application of it vya 1 1... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...principle, that they are liahle to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for 'he major part of those transactions of which we read in history." I thought little,' adds the Dean, c of that odd conceit of the Bishop at that juncture; but I own I could not avoid thinking of it a... | |
 | 1845 - 518 pages
...insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transaction! of which we read in history !" I thought little (adds...great deal since, and applying It to many cases.— Bartlett't Life of Bitlinp Butler. THE JEWS. — Much has been said of this excommunicated race, who... | |
 | Walter Farquhar Hook - 1847 - 616 pages
...this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which...great deal since, and applying it to many cases." — Butler's works. Halifax. Bartlett. BUTLER, ALBAN. ALBAN BUTLER was born in Northampton, in 1710.... | |
 | Henry Thomas Rees - 1850 - 644 pages
...principle, that they are liable to fits of insanity, equally, at least, with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.'" — Bartlett's Memoirs of Bishop Butler, p. 93. John W. Parker. London. 1839. DISCOURSE II. EDUCATION... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 480 pages
...can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.' I thought little of that odd conceit of the bishop at that juncture...great deal since, and applying it to many cases." In 1747, on the death of Archbishop Potter, it is said that the primacy was offered to Butler, who... | |
 | Biography - 1857 - 426 pages
...this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.' I thought little of that odd conceit of the bishop at that juncture ; but I own I could not avoid thinking of it a great... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1860 - 494 pages
...this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.' I thoughtlittle of that odd conceit of the Bishop atthat juncture ; but I own I could not avoid thinking... | |
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Nothing but this principle, that they are liable to insanity equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history. 
