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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... "
Views of the Creation - Page 117
1822 - 178 pages
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The Works of William Paley, D.D.: Natural theology

William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ie of those...
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Beauties Selected from the Writings of the Late William Paley, D.D ...

William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 pages
...to execute some how or other. Goodness of the Creator. One great cause of or.r insensibility to tlie goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness...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,...
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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ...

William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ie of those...
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Natural theology: or, Evidence of the existence and attributes of the Deity

William Paley - 1813 - 572 pages
...of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to th« goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ie of those...
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The Practical Expositor: Or, Scripture Illustrated by Facts, and Arranged ...

Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is the very extensiveness of hi* bounty. We prize but littlei what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality...
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Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...their companions, than is the pike, or tire lion, with the deep solitudes of the pool, or the forest. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...little, what we share only in common with the rest, er with the generality, of our species. When we hearof blessings, we think forthwith of successes,...
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The works of William Paley, Volume 3

William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ie of those...
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The Works...

William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great causo of our 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...
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The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

William Paley - 1825 - 440 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...generality of our species. When we hear of blessings we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, ie of those...
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The Works of William Paley: Natural Theology

William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 424 pages
...reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want. One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extemiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with...
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