 | Great Britain - 1802 - 764 pages
...thing to Jiave imbibed its influence. The Doctor believes he shall not be contradicted when lie says, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phaMiomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. The last subject noticed... | |
 | Alexander Hunter - Agriculture - 1804 - 598 pages
...which we consider it : but, in a moral view, I shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I say, that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another,...constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have ma:le this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...drawn into any particular channel. It is by these means, at least, that we have any power over it. And if one train of thinking be more desirable than another,...constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...which we consider it : but, in a moral vieiv, I shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I say, that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another,...constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of... | |
 | William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...which we consider it : but, in a moral view, I shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I say, that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another,...constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of... | |
 | William Paley - Natural theology - 1813 - 572 pages
...which we consider it : but, in a moral view, 1 shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I say, that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phaenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the... | |
 | Wild flowers - 1845 - 110 pages
...to wrap a fairy in ;" With hues as manifold as glow Embroider'd on the heavenly bow. BISHOP MANT. IP one train of thinking be more desirable than another,...constant reference to a Supreme Intelligent Author. THE wise PA LEY. Read nature like the manuscript of heaven, And call the flowers its poetry. Go out, Ye... | |
 | Samuel Parkes - Chemistry - 1816 - 584 pages
...occasionally excite it ; and if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is surely that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a snpremc intelligent Author." — PALET. ' Thomson's Chemistry, second edition, vol. iii. 178. ADDITIONAL... | |
 | J. W. Baker - Apologetics - 1817 - 262 pages
...subject, mental exercise is drawn into a particular channel ; and the most important train of reflection is that which regards the phenomena of nature, with a constant reference to a supreme and intelligent author. Observation. To hare made this ruling sentiment of our minds is to have laid... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...in a moral view, 1 shall not, I believe, be contradicted when I say, that, if one train of thiuking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards...constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual hrntiment of. our minds, is to have laid the foundation... | |
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I say, that if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. 
