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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... "
New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ... - Page 56
by Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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The Bibliotheca Sacra and American Biblical Repository, Volume 15

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...
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The Eden family; shewing the loss of our Paradise home, and our obligations ...

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."...
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Paley's Moral Philosophy: With Annotations

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...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 28

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...
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How to make money

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...
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The Advanced Book of Reading Lessons: Forming a Supplement to the Fourth and ...

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...
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Paley's Natural Theology, Volume 2

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...
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Common Sense in Business, Or, Practical Answers to Practical Questions on ...

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...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

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...
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Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent ...

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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