 | Literary gems - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 718
...apt to yield to extraordinary occasions; and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas, the stricter the rule is, the more tenacious we grow...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...abstain rather than break his rule, who would not easily be brought to exercise the same inortifi-catiou from higher motives. Not to mention, that when our rule is once known we are provided with an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance and... | |
 | William Paley - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 610
...tenacious we grow of it ; and many a man will abstain rather than break his rule, who would not easily to be brought to exercise the same mortification from...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...apt to yield to extraordinary occasions ; and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas, the stricter the rule is, the more tenacious we grow...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...more tenacious we grow of it; and many a man will abstain rather than break his rule, who would Hot easily be brought to exercise the same mortification...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity — Paley't Eltm. Mor. and Pol. Philosophy, page 316. ART. I. This society... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 692
...occasions ; and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas, the stricter the rule is, (be an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...than break his rule, who would not easily be brought to exercise the same mortification from iiigher motives. Not to mention, that when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent, M. L. V. - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...apt to yield to extraordinary occasions, and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas the stricter the rule is, the more tenacious we grow...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity." Such is the excellent good sense of the celebrated archdeacon of Carlisle.... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...rule u, the more tenacious we grow of it ; and many a man will abstain rather than break his role, who would not easily be brought to exercise the same...when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to every importunity. There is a difference, no doubt, between convivial intemperance, and... | |
 | William Paley - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 474
...apt to yield to extraordinary occasions ; and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas, the stricter the rule is, the more tenacious we grow....when our rule is once known, we are provided with an answer to ever}7 importunity. CHAP. III. SUICIDE. THERE is no subject in morality in which the consideration... | |
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Indefinite resolutions of abstemiousness are apt to yield to extraordinary occasions; and extraordinary occasions to occur perpetually. Whereas, the stricter the rule is, the more tenacious we grow of it; and many a man will abstain rather than break... 
