 The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, who is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs.  The British Essayists;: Spectator - Page 59by Alexander Chalmers - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1905 - 528 pages
...natural religion, and proceeds sometimes on a view of the order of the universe, as, for example : — The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for...human affairs. Aristotle says that, should a man live underground, and there converse with works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...every object, on which he casts his eye. The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own '5 existence, in the formation of the heavens and the...says, that should a man live under ground, and there 20 converse with the works of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 584 pages
...semper inops agitet vexetque cupido; Ne pavor, et rerum mediocriter utilium spes. HOR. Epist. i. 18. 97. The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for...• existence in the formation of the heavens and earth ; and these HYMNS. 47 1 are arguments which a man of sense cannot forbear attending to, •who... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 pages
...mind of every reasonable man, who sees the impressions of divine power and wisdom in every object, on which he casts his eye. The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for his own 15 existence, in the formation of the heavens and the earth, and these are arguments which a man of... | |
 | Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - Hymn writers - 1911 - 630 pages
...there is nothing hid from the heat thereof. The author precedes this hymn with the following remarks: The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for...who Is out of the noise and hurry of human affairs. . . . The Psalmist has very beautiful strokes of poetry to this purpose In that exalted strain (Psalm... | |
 | Joseph Addison - Medals, Ancient - 1914 - 540 pages
...and was printed in the reissues with one alteration in spelling. reThe SPECTATOR. No. 465. t "^ . . . Aristotle says, that should a man live under ground, and there converse with the works » of art and mechanism, and should afterwards be brought up into the open day, and see the... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Religious poetry, English - 1924 - 288 pages
...August 23, 1712) on the means by which faith may be confirmed. ' The Supreme Being,' says Addison, ' has made the best arguments for His own existence in the formation of the Heavens and the Earth. . . . The psalmist has very beautiful strokes of poetry to this purpose in that exalted strain: "The... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 226 pages
...Christian, he often sounds like a deist. He speaks of finding God through Nature: "the Supream [sic] Being has made the best Arguments for his own Existence,...who is out of the Noise and Hurry of Human Affairs" (Spectator, no. 465). Like many deists, he thought virtue often led to happiness or, as he often called... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - Religion - 2002 - 404 pages
...of Strengthening and Confirming Faith in the Mind of Man." Addison prefaced his work with the words: "The Supreme Being has made the best arguments for...own existence in the formation of the heavens and earth." Addison's poem first appeared in The Spectator newspaper in 1712. The spacious ftrmament on... | |
 | Colin Jager - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 304 pages
...sees the Impressions of Divine Power and Wisdom in every Object on which he casts his Eye. The Supream Being has made the best Arguments for his own Existence,...who is out of the Noise and Hurry of Human Affairs. After quoting the first three verses of Psalm 19, Addison then concludes: As such a bold and sublime... | |
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