| Theology - 1858 - 922 pages
...made sure of His purpose by forming our senses to be so many sores and pains to us," etc. Again : " 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... | |
| Jeremiah Dodsworth - 1858 - 412 pages
...made, for example, every thing they tasted bitter, every thing they saw disgusting, every thing they touched a sting, every smell a stench, and every sound a discord; but He has made every sense of animate existences the medium of enjoyment to the meanest of his creatures."... | |
| William Paley, Richard Whately - Ethics - 1859 - 264 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. He might have made, for example, everything we tasted, bitter ; everything we saw, loathsome ; everything we touched, a sting ; every... | |
| Literature - 1859 - 594 pages
...or by placing us amid objects so ill suited to our perceptions as to have continu.illy offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight. He might have made, for example, everything we tasted, Litter; every thing we eaw, loathsome ; every thing we touched, a sling; every... | |
| Edwin Troxell Freedley - 1859 - 200 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. He might have made everything we tasted bitter ; everything we saw loathsome ; everything we touchedasting; every smell... | |
| Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...or by placing us among objects so ill-suited to our perceptions, as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight. He might have made, for instance, everything we saw loathsome, everything we touched a sting, and every sound a discord." In... | |
| William Paley - Natural history - 1873 - 264 pages
...might have made, for example, everything we tasted bitter, everything we saw loathsome, everything we touched a sting, every smell a stench, and every...discord. " If he had been indifferent about our happiness 01 misery, we must impute to our good fortune (as all design by this supposition is excluded) both... | |
| Edwin Troxell Freedley - Business - 1878 - 384 pages
...or 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. He might have made everything we tasted bitter ; everything we saw loathsome ; everything we touched a sting; every smell... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...or by placing us amidst objects so ill suited to our perceptions as to have continually offended us, ohs coeval with Joseph, and Etruscan Lucumons that swayed Italy before the Romans ; — is by this supposition excluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...perceptions as to have continually offended us, instead of ministering to our refreshment and delight. lie maX' 1 Bound a discord. If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our g',od... | |
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