 | William Paley - Ethics - 1827 - 382 pages
...by placing us amidst objects so ill-suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight,...thing we tasted bitter ; every thing we saw loathsome ; everything we touched a sting ; every smell a stench ; and every sound a discord. : If he had been... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1828 - 610 pages
...by placing^us amidst objects so ill-suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight....our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortnne (as all design by this supposition is exeluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1828 - 532 pages
...by placing us amidst objects so ill suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight....every thing we saw loathsome; every thing we touched a fiting; every smell a stench; and every sound a discord. If he had been indifferent about our happiness... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1829 - 676 pages
...by placing us amidst objects, so ill suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight....touched a sting ; every smell a stench ; and every sound * discord. " If he had been indifferent about our happiness or mis THE GOODNESS OF THE DEITf. 265 entirely... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 474 pages
...of ministering to our refreshment and delight. He might, for example, if he had pleased, have made every thing we tasted bitter, every thing we saw loathsome,...our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortunes, as all design by this supposition is excluded, both the capacity of our senses to receive... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...by placing us amidst objects so ill suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight....; every smell a stench; and every sound a discord. 3 If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortune (as... | |
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 1831 - 70 pages
...senses to be so many sores and pains to us, as they are now instruments of gratification and enjoyment. If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortune both the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pages
...by placing us amidst objects, so ill suited to our perceptions as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight....; every thing we touched, a sting ; every smell, a steuch ; and every sound, a disco: d. " If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...or, by placing us amid objects so ill suited to our perceptions as to lave continually offended us, ," ] Cor. i. 2. " It appears, from the expression...that to inrocatc the name of our Lord Jesns - „ tiling we saw, loathsome ; every thing we touched, a sting ; every smell, a stench ; and every sound,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...by placing us amidst objects so ill-suited to OUT perceptions, as to have continually offended us, ou most worthy Judge Eternal, suffer us not at the...hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee. Amen. pittcr ; every thing we saw, loathsome; every thing we touched, a sting; every smell a stench ; and... | |
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If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our' senses to be so many sores and pains to us... 
