 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...points of contact with the world are restricted and circumscribed. Schopenhauer. Men are impatient and for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...accomplishing his natural ends by slow successive steps. Bishop Sutler. Men are in general so tricky, so envious, and 45 so cruel, that when we find one who... | |
 | James Iverach - Christianity - 1894 - 264 pages
...The wise Bishop has depicted that state of mind in his own inimitable way: " Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of nature...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps " (Analogy, Part II., chap. iv.). Our friends and teachers have shown us innumerable adaptations; they... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1896 - 514 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...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | William Ewart Gladstone - 1896 - 510 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...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 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...operations, accomplishing his natural ends by slow and successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which from the nature of it... | |
 | Henry Hughes - Analogy (Religion) - 1898 - 302 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...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | Darwell Stone - Baptism - 1899 - 334 pages
...is and human history what it has been, delay was the condition of success. 'Men are impatient, and for precipitating things : but the Author of nature...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps.' 17 In the works of revelation and grace He is no less deliberate, no less One who slowly accomplishes... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 472 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... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1906 - 320 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...systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution. Thus, in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Theology, Doctrinal - 1920 - 474 pages
...succeeding one : infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. 17. Men are impatient, and for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand hud out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time,... | |
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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. 
