 | Joseph Butler - Occasional sermons - 1749 - 536 pages
...of .thofc Principles of Action, Confcience or Reflection, compared with the reft as they all ftand together in the Nature of Man, plainly bears upon it Marks of Authority over all the reft, and claims the abfolute Direction of them all, to allow or forbid their Gratification : A Difapprobation... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1803 - 280 pages
...Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it : namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience, or reflection, compared...or forbid their gratification — a disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 790 pages
...further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it ; namely, that one of those principles pf action, conscience, or reflection, compared with the...allow or forbid their gratification : A disapprobation of reflection being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...have not ; particularly Conscience." — " Conscience, compared with the other principles of action in man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority over...them all, to allow or forbid their gratification." — " To preside and govern, from the very economy and constitution of Man, belongs to it. This faculty... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...have not; particularly Conscience."—" Conscience, compared with the other principles of action in man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority over...the rest, and claims the absolute direction of them ail, to allow or forbid their gratification."—" To preside and govern, from the very economy and... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1827 - 376 pages
...Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it; namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience, or reflection, compared with the rest, as they all siand together in the nature of man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority over all the rest, and... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Christian ethics - 1834 - 480 pages
...expresses himself, be included, " that one of the principles of action, * Pref. pp. v. vi. LECT . |v - " conscience or reflection, compared with the " rest...or forbid their " gratification; a disapprobation of reflection " being in itself a principle manifestly superior " to a mere propension. And the conclusion... | |
 | George Combe - Human beings - 1835 - 422 pages
...an adequate notion of it ; namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience, or rejection, compared with the rest, as they all stand together...gratification; — a disapprobation on reflection being in itselt a prkiciple manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to allow no... | |
 | George Combe - Ethics - 1836 - 202 pages
...plainly bear upon them marks of authority over the faculties comprehended in the other, and " claim the absolute direction of them all? to allow or forbid their gratification: " — that is to say, the propensities act rightly when controlled by the moral sentiments and intellect,... | |
 | William Scott - Phrenology - 1837 - 422 pages
...Somewhat farther must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it, namely, that one of these principles of action, conscience, or reflection, compared...them all, to allow or forbid their gratification, being in itself a principle manifestly superior to a mere propension. And the conclusion is, that to... | |
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Somewhat further must be brought in to give us an adequate notion of it; namely, that one of those principles of action, conscience or reflection, compared with the rest as they all stand together in the nature of man, plainly bears upon it marks of authority... 
