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Suggestive Hints Towards Improved Secular Instruction: Making it Bear Upon ... - Page 158
by Richard Dawes - 1849 - 184 pages
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The Works of William Paley, D.D.: Natural theology

William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...arty present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say 5 and^with walking, without knowing where to go. And, prior to...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone, that the great Parent of creation hath provided. Happiness is found...
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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ...

William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation hath provided. Happiness is found with...
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Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say; and with walking, witheat knowing where to go. And; prior to both these, I am disposed to believe, that 1 the waking hours of infancy are agreeably-taken up with the exercise of vision, «r perhaps, more...
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Views of the Creation

1822 - 192 pages
...even wit'hout applying it to any purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without haviugany thing to say, and with walking, without knowing where to go. And prior to both these, many are disposed to believe that the waking hoars of infancy, are agreeably taken up with the exercise...
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The works of William Paley, Volume 3

William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation hath provided . Happiness is found...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - 1823 - 492 pages
...say; and with walking, without knowing whither to go. And, previously to both these, it is reasonable to believe, that the waking hours of infancy are agreeably...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation has provided. Happiness is found with...
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The Works...

William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...knowing where to go. And, prior to both these. I "m disposed to believe, that the walking hours i;. infancy are agreeably taken up with the exercise of...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation hath provided. Happiness is found with...
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The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

William Paley - 1825 - 440 pages
...without applying it to any present purpose. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see. But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation hath provided. Happiness is found with...
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Views of the Creation

1826 - 188 pages
...any tiling to say, and with walking, without knowing where to go. And prior to both these, many are disposed to believe that the waking hours of infancy, are agreeably taken up with the exercise of their sight; or pjrhaps more properly speaking' with learning to see. 115 But it is not for youth alone...
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Conversations on Some Leading Points in Natural Philosophy: Designed to ...

Bourne Hall Draper - 1828 - 126 pages
...of the attainment to its future life. A child is delighted with speaking, without having any thing to say ; and with walking, without knowing where to...perhaps, more properly speaking, with learning to see." I believe that the views of this excellent, writer are just. It is a gratifying thought, that the creatures...
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