 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...  Five Years in an English University - Σελίδα 376των Charles Astor Bristed - 1852Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Paley - 1854 - 442 σελίδες
...our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator, is the very extensiveness of his bounty. We piize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or w'th the generality of our species. When we hear of But pain, no doubt, and privations exist, in numerous... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 σελίδες
...Leave, leave the heart and keep the head, I still will be a boy. WC BENNETT. XXVI. COMMON THINGS. " ONE great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...common with the rest, or with the generality of our specifis. "When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honours,... | |
 | William Paley - 1857 - 442 σελίδες
...extensireness of his bounty. We piize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or w'th the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings,...forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honors, riches, preferments, ie of those advantages and superiorities over others, which we happen... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 σελίδες
...insensihility to the goodness of our Creator, is the very extensiveness of his hounty. We prize hut little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of our specics. When we hear of hlessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honors,... | |
 | 1858 - 890 σελίδες
...that, although the illustration might be varied, it would not easily be made better or more striking. ' One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...prosperous fortunes, of honours, riches, preferments, — that is, of those advantages and superiorities over others which we happen either to possess, or... | |
 | Joseph Huntington Jones - 1860 - 316 σελίδες
...from her neck downwards, and could move no part of her whole person but her head. Dr. Paley says, that one great cause of our insensibility to the goodness...forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of honpurs, riches, preferments — ie of those advantages and superiorities over others which we happen... | |
 | 1864 - 704 σελίδες
...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 exiensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share in common with the rest, or with the... | |
 | Holy readings - 1868 - 386 σελίδες
...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...extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share in common with the rest, or with the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 σελίδες
...sibility to the goodness (,f the Creator is the very eitcnsiveness of . is bounty. We prize Iml /illle what we share only in common with the rest, or with the gcr. erality ol'our species. When we hear of b.ess'mgs, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous... | |
 | Charles John Smith - 1871 - 630 σελίδες
...supply, extensive denoting wideness of operation. A large heart, large bounty, extensive benevolence. "One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is the very extensiieness of His bounty." — I'aley. "Circles are praised not that abound In largeness, but the... | |
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