 | 1808 - 408 pages
...there or vacancy furthe traits of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in tliii respect, and ease resulting from the best cause, the...himself, instead of sending it forth to wander amongst speculation which have neilherlimits nor use, •midst »ieirs of unattainable grandeur, fancied I... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...there is no leisure or vacancy for the traits of thought which generate them. He enjoys therefore ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. ' Advantages enjoyed by Subjects of Free States. The satisfaction which the people in free governments... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...leisure there, or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. The wisest advice that can be given is, never to allow our attention to dwell upon comparisons between... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...leisure there or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. Ho enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect,- and ease resulting from the best...to himself, instead of sending it forth to wander among speculations which have neither limits nor use, amidst views of unattainable gran* deur, fancied... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 354 pages
...leisure there or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. The wisest advice that can be given is, never to allow our attention to dwell upon comparisons between... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 378 pages
...leisure there or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. The wisest advice that can be given is, never to allow our attention to dwell upon comparisons between... | |
 | William Paley - 1837 - 428 pages
...leisure there, or vacancy, for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. The wisest advice that can be given is, never to allow our attention to dwell upon comparisons between... | |
 | 1844 - 836 pages
...respect, and ease resulting from the ot cause, the power of keeping his imagination at home ; of confiu'"? it to what belongs to himself, instead of sending it forth to wan" among speculations which have neither limits nor use, saw* views of unattainable grandeur, fancied... | |
 | Du Bois Henry Loux - Democracy - 1920 - 296 pages
...there is no leisure or vacancy for the traits of thought which generate them. He enjoys therefore ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...amongst speculations which have neither limits nor use, admidst views of unattainable grandeur, fancied happiness, extolled, because unexperienced, privileges... | |
 | Kevin Gilmartin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 16 pages
...no leisure there or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys therefore ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best...extolled, because unexperienced, privileges and delights. (RC 3-4) From the outset, Paley narrows the range of theatrical possibilities. What absorbs his attention... | |
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These passions gain no admittance into his breast, because there is no leisure there or vacancy for the trains of thought which generate them. He enjoys, therefore, ease in this respect, and ease resulting from the best cause, the power of keeping his... 