An Outline of a System of Natural TheologyW. Pickering, 1840 - Počet stran: 448 Compares in rhyme the coats people wear to the coverings of a variety of animals. |
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Strana 333 - ... with an apparent design to induce us to act so and so, then he not only dispenses happiness and misery, but also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature, to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction ; this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our...
Strana 363 - And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said ; What is it, Lord ? And he said unto him ; Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Strana 332 - An Author of Nature being supposed, it is not so much a deduction of reason as a matter of experience, that we are thus under his government ; under his government in the same sense as we are under the government of civil magistrates. Because the annexing pleasure to some actions and pain to others, in our power to do or forbear, and giving notice of this appointment beforehand to those whom it concerns, is the proper formal notion of government.
Strana 334 - It is manifest great part of common language, and of common behaviour over the world, is formed upon supposition of such a moral faculty ; whether called conscience, moral reason, moral sense, or Divine reason ; whether considered as a sentiment of the understanding, or as a perception of the heart ; or which seems the truth, as including bothb.
Strana 79 - Why must the primeval condition be one of change at all ? Why should not the nebulous matter be equably diffused throughout space, and continue for ever in its state of equable diffusion, as it must do, from the absence of all cause to determine the time and manner of its separation ? why should this nebulous matter grow cooler and cooler ? why should it not retain for ever the same degree of heat, whatever heat be ? If heat be a fluid, if to cool be to part with this fluid, as many philosophers...
Strana 76 - ... by cooling, the rapidity of its rotation increased, by the laws of rotatory motion, and an exterior zone of vapour was detached from the rest, the central attraction being no longer able to overcome the increased centrifugal force. This zone of vapour might in some cases retain its form, as we see it in Saturn's ring; but more usually the ring of vapour would break into several masses, and these would generally coalesce into one mass, which would revolve about the sun. Such portions of the solar...
Strana 332 - His own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us. For if civil magistrates could make the sanctions of their laws take place without interposing at all after they had passed them, without a trial and the formalities of an execution; if they were able to make their laws execute themselves, or every offender to execute them upon himself,— we should be just in the same sense under their government then as we are now, but in a much higher degree and more perfect...
Strana 392 - Him alone is real and genuine love, while that of all other objects is absurd and illusory ; that the beauties of nature are faint resemblances — like images in a mirror — of the divine charms ; that, from eternity without beginning to eternity without end, the Supreme Benevolence is occupied in bestowing happiness, or the means of attaining it ; that men can only attain it by performing their part of the primal covenant between them and the Creator...
Strana 334 - For, as much as it has been disputed wherein virtue consists, or whatever ground for doubt there may be about particulars ; yet, in general, there is in reality an universally acknowledged standard of it. It is that, which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public : it is that, which every man you meet puts on the show of: it is that, which the primary and fundamental laws of all civil constitutions over the face of the earth make it their business and endeavour to enforce the...
Strana 273 - He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.