 | Joseph Butler - 1851 - 338 pages
...\vhich would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that ail these are of such a kind, as that the precept changes the whole nature of the case and of the action j and both constitutes and shows that not to be unjust or immoral, which, prior to the precept, must... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1853 - 418 pages
...persons, requiring actions, which would be immoral and vicious, were it not /or such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind,...and both constitutes and shows that not to be unjust ot immoral, which, prior to the precept, must have appeared and really have been so : which may well... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1857 - 514 pages
...immoral and vicious, were it not for fuch precepts. But it is eafy to fee, that all thefe are of fuch a kind, as that the precept changes the whole nature of the cafe and of the adtion ; and both conftitutes and mows that not to be unjuft or immoral, which, prior... | |
 | 1857 - 380 pages
...persons, requiring actions, which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a land, as that the precept changes the whole nature of the case and of the action ; and both constitutes... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - Rationalism - 1859 - 378 pages
...persons, requiring actions, which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind,...: which may well be, since none of these precepts are contrary to immutable morality. If it were commanded to cultivate the principles and act from the... | |
 | Sara S. Hennell - 1859 - 70 pages
...not this an expression that suggests how difficult he had found it to satisfy himself with it ? — ] that all these are of such a kind, as that the precept...precept, must have appeared and really have been so : [here he anticipates, how much his readers will be shocked, as no doubt he had been himself, and... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - Rationalism - 1859 - 376 pages
...particular persons, requiring actions which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind,...case and of the action ; and both constitutes and shews that not to be unjust or immoral, which, prior to the precept, must have appeared, and really... | |
 | Henry Longueville Mansel - 1860 - 389 pages
...persons, requiring actions, which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind,...: which may well be, since none of these precepts are contrary to immutable morality. If it were commanded to cultivate the principles and act from the... | |
 | Hugh Sherrard - 1863 - 102 pages
...persons, requiring actions, which would be immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see, that all these are of such a kind...case and of the action ; and both constitutes and shews that not to be unjust or immoral, which, prior to the precept must have appeared and really have... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophy, Ancient - 1865 - 640 pages
...particular persons, requiring actions which would bo immoral and vicious, were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see that all these are of such a kind, CHAP. XXXV. OLD AND NEW TEACHING. discrediting the traditions, set himself up as a thinker above the... | |
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Scripture given to particular persons, requiring actions which would be immoral and vicious were it not for such precepts. But it is easy to see that all these are of such a kind, as that the precept changes the whole nature of the case and of the action,... 
