Sermons on Various Subjects |
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Page 1
Who can doubt but that the intention of our Maker , in giving us the faculty of
speech , was mutual utility and pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often
produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints
and limbs ...
Who can doubt but that the intention of our Maker , in giving us the faculty of
speech , was mutual utility and pleasure ? Yet the faculty of speech often
produces the very reverse of these , mutual annoyance and offence . Our joints
and limbs ...
Page 3
It is no other , nothing less , than to break up my plan of happiness , my pleasures
, my enjoyments , and my profits . The two first are not such , as I can pretend to
say are reconcileable to purity and holiness ; the last carries me occasionally to ...
It is no other , nothing less , than to break up my plan of happiness , my pleasures
, my enjoyments , and my profits . The two first are not such , as I can pretend to
say are reconcileable to purity and holiness ; the last carries me occasionally to ...
Page 7
... aud wealth , and pleasure , and gaiety , and diversion , are sadly unfavorable
to the impressions of religion ; they are ... one either intent upon acquiring riches ,
or addicted to the pleasures which riches procure , and lost in them altogether ...
... aud wealth , and pleasure , and gaiety , and diversion , are sadly unfavorable
to the impressions of religion ; they are ... one either intent upon acquiring riches ,
or addicted to the pleasures which riches procure , and lost in them altogether ...
Page 8
It is possible in the height and flow of spirits , pleasures and enjoyments ; it is
possible also in the eagerness and hurry of business , not to think of those things
at all . But when pleasures fail , when pain and misery come in their place , when
...
It is possible in the height and flow of spirits , pleasures and enjoyments ; it is
possible also in the eagerness and hurry of business , not to think of those things
at all . But when pleasures fail , when pain and misery come in their place , when
...
Page 11
If there was any pleasure or gratification in view ; if there was any thing to be got
by the action ; that was all he considered about it ; its being right and its being
wrong formed no part of his deliberation , nor was he put upon asking this
question ...
If there was any pleasure or gratification in view ; if there was any thing to be got
by the action ; that was all he considered about it ; its being right and its being
wrong formed no part of his deliberation , nor was he put upon asking this
question ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Sermons on Various Subjects |
| Author | William Paley |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1827 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 438 pages |
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