 | Mark Hopkins - 1872 - 444 pages
...he who has become familiar with such motives without corresponding action. " Going," says Butler, " over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 pages
...in others that practical sense of it, which a man really has himself, is a virtuous act. All these, therefore, may and will contribute towards forming...talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 496 pages
...with yet deeper philosophy, proceeds one step further. " Going over the theory of virtue," says he, " in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1874 - 492 pages
...with yet deeper philosophy, proceeds one step further. "Going over the theory of virtue," says he, "in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it ; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1878 - 428 pages
...incapacitating us for their discharge. According to that locus classicus in Bishop Butler's Sermons : " Going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures ot it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1879 - 398 pages
...of veracity, justice, and charity. . . . Resolutions to do well are properly acts. . . . All these, therefore, may and will contribute towards forming...talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it, this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1879 - 386 pages
...treatise occur some observations which remind one of the celebrated passage in which Butler shows that " going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well and drawing fine pictures of it, is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | British and foreign school society - 1880 - 416 pages
...Butler, in his 'Analogy,' says, 'All habits are acquired by exercise, and are strengthened by exercise ; but going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts,...well, and drawing fine pictures of it • — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of any virtue in him who thus employs... | |
 | William Lucas Collins - 1881 - 210 pages
...of his own day of discussing systems of religion and morals instead of applying them in practice. ' Going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts,...well, and drawing fine pictures of it, — this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1881 - 430 pages
...he who has become familiar with such motives without corresponding action. " Going," says Butler, " over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it in him who thus employs himself,... | |
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But going over the theory of virtue in one's thoughts, talking well, and drawing fine pictures, of it; this is so far from necessarily or certainly conducing to form a habit of it, in him who thus employs himself, that it may harden the mind in a contrary... 
