'[William Lovett] read William Paley and other theologians in [the library of "The Liberals"].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Lovett Print: Book
Letter from Barbauld to her neice, Lucy Aikin, dated 27/7/1805. "What is your opinion of [begin underline] causation [end underline]? Do you agree with Dugald Stewart, Hume, and Mr. Leslie, because if you do, I think you may as well throw Paley's last work into the fire."
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Anna Letitia Barbauld Print: Book
In the public library [Manny Shinwell] doggedly tackled volumes "whose contents I usually failed to understand": Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Haeckel's Riddle of the Universe, Herbert Spencer's Sociology, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Shinwell's whole intellectual career was an exciting but laborious exercise in decoding. All his life he used a dictionary to correct his pronunciation'.
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Emmanuel Shinwell (later Baron Shinwell) Print: Book
[The text is an open letter from Pearson to Paley, praising the latter's book, and suggesting its use as an academic textbook. The letter is dated 11/11/1802]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Pearson Print: Book
'One unfortunate who had confounded together the opening paragraphs of the Evidences and the Natural Theology... [wrote as his exam answer] only this commencement of a sentence, 'If twelve men find a watch."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'Too hoarse to do duty [at church] Read Paley's Evidences'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Benjamin Newton Print: Book
'I cannot but urge on all those who are commencing their academic course, the natural study of his delightful work on natural Theology' [p.88] [And more references & comments on the following pages]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book
[This section is a strong attack on the utilitarian principles explained in Paley's work.]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Adam Sedgwick Print: Book
'In Dublin, she complained that she was not reading a great deal, but in the same breath remarked that books provided her only relaxation. She must have at least browsed in the volume of Cowper's poems and another of sermons by her friend John Hewlett which Johnson sent her. She told Everina at one point that she was reading "some philosophical lectures, and metaphysical sermons - for my own private improvement". These works could well have included the writings of Dr Price. The only writer in this field whom she singled out for comment, however, was the orthodox William Paley, whose "Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy" she commended to Eliza for its definition of virtue: "the doing good to mankind in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness".'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Wollstonecraft Print: Book
'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner, and I am convinced I could have written out the whole of the "Evidences" with perfect correctness...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book
'In order to pass the BA examination, it was also necessary to get up Paley's "Evidences of Christianity" and his "Moral Philosophy". This was done in a thorough manner....'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book
'The natural theology of Dr. Paley is so generally recommended and read in this University, that I need not here insist either on the scope or the utility of the argument so powerfully and at te sane time so beautifullyenforced in that work.' [p.1] [The lecture also contains various other summaries, comments and references to paley's work.]
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: John Kidd Print: Book
'The acute and learned Paley sums up in the following beautiful and energetic language the results of the minute and elegant investigations persued in his invaluable volume on NaturalTheology...'[there follows an extended quote from Paley].
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: William Buckland Print: Book
'The logic of this book [Paley's Evidences] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid.' [Darwin's Autobiography]
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Darwin Print: Book
'[EDITOR'S WORDS] Although Mrs Hamilton never lost her relish for works of humour and imagination, she had, during the last six years of her life, a decided preference for compositions of a higher order. Dugald Stewart, Paley, and Allison, had long been the chosen companions of her private hours'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'I also sent for Bishop Watson's Apology for the Bible, in Letters to T. Paine; Bishop Porteus's Compendium of the Evidences of Christianity, Butler's Divine Analogy, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Pilgrim's Good Intent, Pascal's Thoughts, Addison's Evidences of Christianity, Conibeare on Revealed Religion, Madam de Genlis's Religion the only Basis of Happiness and sound Philosophy, with Observations on pretended modern Philosophers, 2 vols. Jenkin's Reasonableness and Certainty of Christianity, and several others of the same tendency. Those excellent defences of revealed religion I read through, during which I had many struggles . . . '
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book
'The first entire work that I read in defence of revealed religion, was Archdeacon Paley's View of the Evidences of Christianity. This very excellent work I perhaps never should have read, had I not met with a pirated edition of it, (the whole being printed in one volume duodecimo, on decent paper) which I bought bound, for three and sixpence.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: James Lackington Print: Book
'The evidences of the infinite wisdom, power, and goodness of the great Creator, given by Paley in his Natural Theology, have attracted my attention to objects that might otherwise have escaped my notice'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Hamilton Print: Book
'Very clear & convincing — not indeed to be answered. O that my faith may grow more settled as my devotion becomes more warm'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Print: Book
