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" Perception of distress in others is a natural excitement, passively to pity, and actively to relieve it : but let a man set himself to attend to, inquire out, and relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with... "
A Series of Popular Essays: Illustrative of Principles Essentially Connected ... - Page 300
by Elizabeth Hamilton - 1813
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Works: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volume 1

Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of mens dying around us give us daily a less sensible...
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The Works of Joseph Butler ...: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author ...

Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life, with which he must become acquainted...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 564 pages
...distressed persons, and he cannot but " grow less and less sensibly affected with the various mis" cries of life with which he must become acquainted ; " when...greater aptitude actively " to assist and befriend them. So also, at the same time " that the daily instances of men's dying around us, give " us daily a less...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1814 - 528 pages
...distressed persons, and he cannot '' but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various mise" ries of life with which he must become acquainted ; when...principle of action, will strengthen : and whilst ',• be passively compassionates the distressed less, he will acquire " a greater aptitude actively...
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Sermons

Daniel Wilson - Sermons, English - 1818 - 594 pages
...relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted, when yet at the same time, benevolence as a practical principle of action will strengthen. So also, at the same time that the daily instances...
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The analogy of religion, natural and revealed, to the constitution and ...

Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pages
...reheve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected -with the various miseries of life, with which he -must become acquainted...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So nlso, at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - Analogy (Religion) - 1819 - 256 pages
...relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted,...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. .So also at the sane time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us ' daily a less...
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The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and ...

Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...relieve distressed persons, and he cannot but grow less and less sensibly affected with the various miseries of life with which he must become acquainted,...greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend them. So also at the same time that the daily instances of men's dying around us give us daily a less sensible...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volumes 1-2

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 706 pages
...must become acquainted ; when yet, at * Book ii. chap. 0. (Page 56 ofTATiot's Tranil .) YOL. I. 40 " the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion,...strengthen : and whilst he passively compassionates UK ' distressed less, he will acquire a greater aptitude actively to assist and befriend ' them. So...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...must become acquainted ; when yet, at » Book ii. chap. 6. (Page 56 of TATLOH'S Tranil.) voL. i. 40 i the same time, benevolence, considered not as a passion, but as a practical i principle of action, will strengthen : and whilst he passively compassionates the i distressed less,...
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