 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 806 pages
...succeeding one ; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to maturo 'ago. Meu are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1872 - 386 pages
...things : but the Author of ualurr Appears deliberate throughout his opfirations ; accomplishing fcis natural ends by slow successive steps. And there is...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several nails into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1872 - 628 pages
...Church in respect of Christian Missions. Oswald Joseph Reichel, Queen's. 1S67 Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but the Author of Nature...deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing Sis natural ends by slow successive steps. William Awdry, Fellow of Queen's. 1868 " H'ho the Guide... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - Christianity - 1873 - 398 pages
...succeeding one; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - 364 pages
...succeeding one : infancy to childhood; childhood to youth; youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps.0 And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various... | |
 | George Frederick Maclear - 1875 - 74 pages
...consideration, the dealings of God's providence are by gradual steps, if there is " a plan of things laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various...systems of means as well as length of time in order to the carrying out of its several parts into execution," a it is clear that we are only deceiving ourselves... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Protestantism - 1875 - 240 pages
...succeeding one; infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient L 2 and for precipitating things ; but the author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1875 - 408 pages
...succeeding one : infancy to childhood ; childhood to youth ; youth to mature age. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow, successive steps.* * [" We shall find that all the great developments of the moral being have resulted in the advantage... | |
 | John Bickford Heard - God - 1875 - 426 pages
...little degrees and by slow advances, so it may be with the scheme of redemption. Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but the Author of nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. This being the case, the fault lies with those who reason from our knowledge of a part to a knowledge... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1875 - 236 pages
...childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient i. a and for precipitating things ; but ihe author of nature appears deliberate throughout his...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence, God operates in the very same manner as in the dispensation... | |
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Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature appears deliberate throughout his operations; accomplishing his natural ends, by slow successive steps. 
