 The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we...  Religio Medici - Pagina 84door Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 150 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1803 - 572 pagina’s
...concludes ' that, in the ccconomy of the world, we see no marks either of a beginning or an end;' ' that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...in themselves the elements of their own destruction I' and that, ' though he may put an end, as he gave a beginning, to the present system^ at some determinate... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 162 pagina’s
...conclusions, and in inanimate nature, we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves the elements of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved in unchangeable perfection, and as it were in eternal youth. If there... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pagina’s
...similar conclusions, and in inanimate nature we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the ele1 Brande's Outlines of Geology, p. 20. raents of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pagina’s
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 552 pagina’s
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 554 pagina’s
...elements of their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pagina’s
...elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pagina’s
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...sign by which we may estimate either their future or past duration. These phenomena, then, are all so many marks of the lapse of time, among which the principles... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pagina’s
...is unreasonable indeed, to suppose, that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature hus not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions...sign by which we may estimate either their future or past duration. These phenomena then are all so many marks of the lapse of time, among which the principles... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1829 - 266 pagina’s
...present strata as on their road to the deep — it -allows of no exception to the law of decay. But as the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like human institutions, carry with them the elements of their own destruction ; as he has not permitted... | |
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