| 1802 - 764 páginas
...This subject is divided into two propositions, which, after ample illustration, are repeated. " First, that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is bénéficiai : secondly, that the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary... | |
| 1803 - 818 páginas
...treated at considerable length. The proof of it is made to rest upon the two following propositions : the first is, that in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is. perceived, the design is bencfiL-iat ; the second, thai tiie deity has super-added pleasure to animal sensations, beyond... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 498 páginas
...proposition. The reader will now bear in mind what our t-ni propositions were. They were, firstly, that in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial : secondly ; that thi Deity has added pleasure to animal sepsations beyond what was necessary for any... | |
| J. W. Baker - 1817 - 262 páginas
...restrictions, and by certain common rules. 172. The goodness of the Deity is evident, if we consider that in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design is beneficial. * Illustration (I.) No productions of nature display contrivance so manifestly as the... | |
| John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 422 páginas
...rests upon two propositions, each of which is capable of being made out by observations, which are drawn from the appearances of nature. The first is...vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is per208 ceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial. . . The second, that the Deity has superadded... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 382 páginas
...the purpose, so far as it was necessary, might have been effected by the operation of pain." First, " in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." No productions of nature display contrivance so manifestly as the parts of animals; and the parts of... | |
| William Paley - 1824 - 382 páginas
...the purpose, so far as it was necessary, might have been effected by the operation of pam." First, " in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is- benejicial." No productions of nature display contrivance so manifestly as the parts of animals ; and... | |
| William Paley - 1825 - 440 páginas
...we are in possession. Our FIRST PROPOSITION, and that which we have hitherto been defending, was, " that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." Our SECOND PROPOSITION is, " that the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations, beyond what was... | |
| William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 424 páginas
...we are in possession. Our FIRST PROPOSITION, and that which we have hitherto been defending, was, " that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." Our SECOND PROPOSITION is, " that the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations, beyond what was... | |
| Charles Brooks - 1828 - 424 páginas
...through the day ! DECEMBER 15. The Lord is good to all ; and his tender mercies are over all his works. THE proof of the divine goodness rests upon two propositions,...superadded pleasure to animal sensations, beyond what \vas necessary for any other purpose, or when the purpose, so far as it was necessary, might have been... | |
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