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" If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortune (as all design by this supposition is excluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. "
Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ... - Page 482
by William Paley - 1811 - 548 pages
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The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy, Volume 1

William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...loathsome ; every thing we touched a sting ; every smell a stench; and every sound a discord. v If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery,...pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. But either of these, and still more both of them, being too much to be attributed to accident,...
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The Works of William Paley, D.D.: Natural theology

William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...loathsome ; every thing we touched, a sting ; every smell, a stench ; and every sound, a discord. " If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery,...pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. " But either of these, and still more both of them, being too much to be attributed to...
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Beauties Selected from the Writings of the Late William Paley, D.D ...

William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must have imputed to our good fortune, both the capacicy of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. But either of these being too much to be attributed to accident, nothing remains but the...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 1

Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 430 pages
...loathsome ; every thing we touched a sting ; every smell a stench ; and every sound a discord. ' If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impute to our good fortune (a$ all design, by this supposition, is excluded) both, the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure,...
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The Moral Instructor and Guide to Virtue and Happiness

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1819 - 252 pages
...and every sound a discord. If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, we must impu-.e to our good fortune (as all design by this supposition...pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. But either of these, and still more both of them, being too much to be attributed to accident,...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...thiag we touched, a sting; every smellj a stench $ and every sound. a, discord. •• '"'Ifhe hfcd been indifferent about our happiness or •Misery,...pleasure, and the, supply of external objects fitted to produce it. " But either of these^ and still more both jof , them, bfeing too much to be attributed...
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The works of William Paley, Volume 3

William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...mentioning the gratifications of the palate, it may be said that we have made choice of a ti ifling example. I am not of that opinion. They afford a share...design by this supposition is excluded), both the cap* city of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to excite it."...
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The Works...

William Paley - 1824 - 472 pages
...every smell a stench ; and every soiimi a discord. If he had been indifferent about our happiness ot misery, we must impute to our good fortune (as all...pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it. But either of these (and still more both of them) being too much to be attributed to accident,...
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Moral and Political Philosophy, Volume 2

William Paley - Ethics - 1824 - 516 pages
...loathsome ; every thing we touched, a sting ; every smell a stench ; and every sound a discord. If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery,...we must impute to our good fortune (as all design bv this supposition is excluded) both the capacity of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...stench ; and every sound a discord. 3 If he had been indifferent about our happiness or misery, \ve must impute to our good fortune (as all design by this supposition is excluded,) both the capacity.of our senses to receive pleasure, and the supply of external objects fitted to produce it....
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