 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...contend, capable of being made out by observations drawn from the appearances of nature. The first is, " that in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." First, "in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1848 - 676 pages
...which it presents are mingled with bright and joyous colours. For, as Paley has observed, " In a yast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial. " When God created the human species, either he wished their happiness, or he wished their misery,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...heads of it be more forcibly and succinctly stated than in his language. The first proposition is, " That in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial " ; the second, " That the Deity has superadded pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1849 - 306 pages
...second proposition. The reader will now bear in mind what our two 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 the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary for any... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 488 pages
...heads of it be more forcibly and succinctly stated than in his language. The first proposition is, " That in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial " ; the second, " That the Deity has superadded pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary... | |
 | Theology - 1851 - 592 pages
...proves the goodness of Deity. I shall therefore make a few observations in illustration of them. 1st, "In a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." This proposition I am inclined to render more general than it is stated by Dr. Paley. For in animated... | |
 | Universalism - 1852 - 572 pages
...looking at it, the admirably sustained argument of Piiley in bis Natural Theology,where he shows, " that in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial ; and that the Deity has snperadded pleasure to animal sensation beyond what was necessary to any other... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1852 - 754 pages
...masses which it presents are mingled with bright and joyous colours. For, as Paley has observed, " In a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial. " When God created the human species, either he wished their happiness, or he wished their misery,... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1853 - 516 pages
...contend, capable of being made out by observations drawn from the appearances of nature. The first is, " that in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial." The second, " that the Deity has supcradded pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1854 - 442 pages
...character of utility can be called in question. The case of venomous animals is of ' , much inferior consequence to the case of prey, and in some degree,...possession Our FIRST PROPOSITION, and that which we have hither- ' '.' i to been defending, was, "that, in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance... | |
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Our first proposition, and that which we have hitherto been defending, was, ' that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial.' Our second proposition is, ' that the Deity has added... 
