 | 1826 - 1138 pages
...feel no hesitation in concluding, that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently,...the low gratifications of sense in another respect : it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | Henry Peter Brougham (1st baron Brougham and Vaux.) - 1827 - 68 pages
...feel no hesitation in concluding, that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently,...the low gratifications of sense in another respect : it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | William Russell - 1828 - 910 pages
...feel no hesitation in concluding, that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently,...the low gratifications of sense in another respect : it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pages
...feel no hesitation in concluding, that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently,...the low gratifications of sense in another respect : it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | 1831 - 336 pages
...the delight is inexpressible of being able to follow, as it were, with our eyes, the marvellous work* of the Great Architect of Nature, to trace the unbounded...the low gratifications of sense in another respect: it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pages
...feel no hesitation in concluding, that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently,...the low gratifications of sense in another respect : it elevates and refines our nature, while those hurt the health, debase the understanding, and corrupt... | |
 | 1833 - 436 pages
...were, with our eyes, t ho marvellous works of the Great Architect of Nature — to trace the unjbounded power and exquisite skill which are .exhibited in...But it is unlike the low gratifications of sense in anoI'.her respect : while those hurt the health, debase the. understanding, and corrupt the feelings,... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...able to follow, as it were with our eyes, the marvellous works of the great Architect of Nature, and to trace the unbounded power and exquisite skill, which are exhibited in the most minute, as well as in the mightiest parts of his system. we are again gratified with tracing accurate but most unexpected... | |
 | James Nicol - 1844 - 152 pages
...any direction without perceiving the must extraordinary traces of design ; and the skill every where conspicuous is calculated, in so vast a proportion...system. " The pleasure derived from this study is increasing, and so various that it never tires the appetite. But it is unlike the low gratifications... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...able to follow, as it were with our eyes, the marvellous works of the Great Architect of nature, and to trace the unbounded power and exquisite skill which are exhibited in the most minute, as well as in the mightiest parts of his system. DEPENDENCE ON PROVIDENCE. REGARD the world with cautious eye,... | |
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Providence, every part would be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently, however, of this most consoling inference, the delight is inexpressible of being able to follow, as it were, with our eyes, the marvellous works of the Great... 
