 | Matthew Arnold - 1970 - 472 pages
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 | John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...System, not a fixt but a progressive one', writes Joseph Butler in The Analogy of Religion (1736). 'The Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout...And there is a Plan of things beforehand laid out . . . Thus, in the daily Course of natural Providence, God operates in the very same Manner, as in... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Religion - 2005 - 401 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 ndvantage... | |
 | Cardinal John Henry Newman - Religion - 2007 - 469 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 sacseessive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1891 - 1022 pages
...another succeeding one: infancy to childhood, childhood to youth, youth to mature age. Men are impatient 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 God... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1897 - 546 pages
...that it is the appointed method of Him who, while ' men are impatient and for precipitating things,' ' appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow successive steps.' ' We have read with great interest the comments on Article XXII. The condemnation by the Council of... | |
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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. 
