 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1896 - 514 pages
...application of the passage, in the gospel. ยง 34. The obligation to obey positive precepts is moral. But, as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all : it is highly necessary that we remind ourselves, how great presumption... | |
 | Michael Ferrebee Sadler - Bible - 1897 - 634 pages
...remember the words of Bishop Butler: "As it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature where, upon a comparison of two things, one is found to be...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all : it is highly necessary that we remind ourselves how great presumption... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1906 - 320 pages
...However, it is certain we may learn this from his divine application of the passage in the Gospel. But as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature,...importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all, it is highly necessary that we remind ourselves, how great presumption... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 432 pages
...nations, is, of all men, most destitute. BISHOP BUTLER remarks, that it is one of the weaknesses of our nature, when upon a comparison of two things, one is found to he of greater importance than the other, to think this other of scarce any importance at all. THE Holy... | |
 | 1874 - 688 pages
...would like them to be hot; however, this last quality is not necessary to their acceptableness. 6. It is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature when, upon comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider this... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - English periodicals - 1891 - 540 pages
...many modern growths, it threatens to become over-luxuriant. Bishop Butler remarks in the Analogy that 'it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature...greater importance than the other to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all.' And the opposite tendency is equally remarkable, when a thing... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Religion - 2005 - 401 pages
...However, it is certain we may learn this from his divine application of the passage in the gospel. But as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon a comparison of two things, one is (ioOj topwtant , .. , . , , found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider this other... | |
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But, as it is one of the peculiar weaknesses of human nature, when, upon a comparison of two things, one is found to be of greater importance than the other, to consider this other as of scarce any importance at all... 
