The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volume 5Thomas Tegg, 1825 |
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... Present pleasure is every thing with them . The sports of the day , the amusements of the evening , entertainments and diversions occupy all their concern ; and so long as these can be supplied in succession , so long as they can go ...
... Present pleasure is every thing with them . The sports of the day , the amusements of the evening , entertainments and diversions occupy all their concern ; and so long as these can be supplied in succession , so long as they can go ...
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... present , but the very things and the only things about which their anxiety is employed ; become serious things indeed , as being the things which now make them wretched and miserable . Therefore a man must learn to be affected by ...
... present , but the very things and the only things about which their anxiety is employed ; become serious things indeed , as being the things which now make them wretched and miserable . Therefore a man must learn to be affected by ...
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... present . That reli- gion , therefore , may not be quite excluded and over- borne , may not quite sink under these powerful causes , every support ought to be given to it which can be given by education , by instruction , and , above ...
... present . That reli- gion , therefore , may not be quite excluded and over- borne , may not quite sink under these powerful causes , every support ought to be given to it which can be given by education , by instruction , and , above ...
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... presents to us , might en- able it to overcome and prevail in the contest . But there is another adversary to oppose , much more for- midable ; and that is sensuality ; an addiction to sen- sual pleasures . It is the flesh which lusteth ...
... presents to us , might en- able it to overcome and prevail in the contest . But there is another adversary to oppose , much more for- midable ; and that is sensuality ; an addiction to sen- sual pleasures . It is the flesh which lusteth ...
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... present condition with respect to the tremen- dous alternative which is to take place upon him after his death . These are what we understand by religious exer- cises ; and they are all so far of the same nature with religious ...
... present condition with respect to the tremen- dous alternative which is to take place upon him after his death . These are what we understand by religious exer- cises ; and they are all so far of the same nature with religious ...
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