 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 790 pages
...endeavoured to draw men off from labouring after, and laying stress upon other knowledge, in comparison of that which related to morals. Our province is virtue...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1827 - 376 pages
...endeavored to draw men off from laboring after, and laying stress upon other knowledge, in comparison of that which related to morals. Our province is virtue...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate : how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1838 - 616 pages
...endeavoured to draw men off from labouring after, and laying stress upon other knowledge, in comparison of that which related to morals. Our province is virtue...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate; how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1838 - 632 pages
...endeavoured to draw men off from labouring after, and laying stress upon other knowledge, in comparison of that which related to morals. Our province is virtue...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate : how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...understanding.' This is the only wisdom which man should aspire after, as hiз work and business — Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners;...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has been neglected, is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | Thomas Bartlett - 1839 - 586 pages
...us, therefore, in opposition to the dreams of vain speculation, of enthusiasm, or infidelity, that, "our province is virtue and religion, life and manners...improving the temper, and making the heart better;" and that, " this is the field assigned us to cultivate ;" — and, while he points out, that attainments... | |
 | Augustus Clissold - 1839 - 260 pages
...exclusively occupied in answering every cavil that may be brought forward."— Whatehfs Bampton Lectures. " Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners;...improving the temper and making the heart better." — Bishop Butler's Sermon upon Hie Ignorance of Man, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY OTIS CLAPP, 121 WASHINGTON... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 406 pages
...endeavoured to draw men off from labouring after, and laying stress upon other knowledge, in comparison of that which related to morals. Our province is virtue...temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. Virtue is demonstrably... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1847 - 792 pages
...which the pious believer possesses, is amply sufficient for all the exigencies of our present state. " Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners...temper and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate." l Let us not presume to explore the vast designs of the Almighty ; it is... | |
 | 1847 - 782 pages
...which the pious believer possesses, is amply sufficient for all the exigencies of our present state. " Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners...temper and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate." * Let us not presume to explore the vast designs of the Almighty ; it is... | |
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Our province is virtue and religion, life and manners; the science of improving the temper, and making the heart better. This is the field assigned us to cultivate: how much it has lain neglected is indeed astonishing. 
