 | Matthew Arnold - 1883 - 432 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... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Church of England - 1883 - 460 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... | |
 | University of Oxford - 1883 - 660 pages
...Church in respect of Christian Missions. Oswald Joseph Reichel, Queen's 1867 Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but the Author of Nature...throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends bit slow successive steps. William Awdry, Fellow of Queen's 1868 " Who the Guide of Nature but only... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Dale - Religion and Science - 1884 - 206 pages
...times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."* " 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 of its several parts into execution. Thus in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Dale - Religion and science - 1884 - 202 pages
...times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."* " 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 of its several parts into execution. Thus in the daily course of natural providence,... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1884 - 328 pages
...for precipitating things ; but the Author ot Nature appears deliberate throughout His operat1ons ', accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive...And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out xvV11c"h from the nature of it requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - Christianity - 1892 - 192 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... | |
 | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon - Bishops - 1889 - 144 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... | |
 | James Hastings, Ann Wilson Hastings, Edward Hastings - Bible - 1905 - 594 pages
...John's disciples, is one which in these days we need seriously to take to heart. ' Men are impatient and for precipitating things ; but the Author of Nature...deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His ends by slow successive steps.' So wrote the great philosopher and divine, Bishop Butler, a century... | |
 | Samuel Rolles Driver - Bible - 1892 - 264 pages
...teacher solved in anticipation the difficulty which future years would bring : " Men are impatient and for precipitating things, but the Author of nature...accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps " ? l 2. Let me pass to a second question. The quarrel with final causes is an old one ; and the sound... | |
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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. 
