 | Books and bookselling - 1790 - 564 pages
...can afford us pleaiure, .ЛIJft us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creature«, ig a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for thefe purpofes, and afford us pain initead of pleafurc, inftead of an aid they become an encumbrance,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 282 pages
...bodies fhould be lent us, while they can afford us plcafure, affift us in acquiring knowledge, or of doing good to our fellow- creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for thefe purpofes, and afford us pain inftead of pleafure, inftead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons, American - 1803 - 528 pages
...That bodies should be lent while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | William Smith - Sermons - 1803 - 492 pages
...That bodies should be lent while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...they can afford ui. pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure ; instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1810 - 292 pages
...good to our fellowcreatures, is a Uind and benevolent act of God.— When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrante, and answer none of the inientinns for which ihry were given, it is equally kind and benevolent... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811 - 474 pages
...good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God ; when thej become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure,...incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they are given, it is then equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 196 pages
...can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to •our fellow-creatures, is a kind and benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure ; instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and... | |
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When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which... 
