 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...insensibility to tlie goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little. what we share .only in common with the rest,* or with the generality of the species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of pros..* H3 perous fortunes,... | |
 | Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we are apt to think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, that... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiueness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ic of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen either to possess, or to be in... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...sensibility to the goodness of the Creator is the very e.rtennveness of his bounty. We prize but little, what we share only in common with the rest, or with...forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honors, riches, preferments, ie of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extewnveness of his bounty. We prize but little o another of their scale of adjustment, with more...than the eyes of other animals. The eyes of fishes i. e, of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen either to possess, or to be... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - Readers - 1835 - 302 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments — that is — of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen either to possess,... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Sermons, English - 1837 - 368 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...over others, which we happen either to possess, or be in pursuit, or to covet. The common benefits of our nature entirely escape us. Yet these are the... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1838 - 976 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extenrivfmest of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...advantages and superiorities over others, which we happcu either to possess, or to be in pursuit of, or to covet. The common benefits of our nature entirely... | |
 | William Paley - Clergy - 1838 - 586 pages
...insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, *. e. of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen either to possess, or to be... | |
 | 1838 - 468 pages
...goodness of the creator," says Paley, " is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of onr species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of success, of prosperous fortunes, of honours,... | |
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One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is, the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith... 
