Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the DeityGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 420 pagina's |
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... instance , or a complex adjustment of lathes , files , and other tools , evident- ly and separately calculated for this purpose ; let us in- quire , what effect ought such a discovery to have upon his former conclusion . I. The first ...
... instance , or a complex adjustment of lathes , files , and other tools , evident- ly and separately calculated for this purpose ; let us in- quire , what effect ought such a discovery to have upon his former conclusion . I. The first ...
Pagina 9
... instance , is the maker of a chair ; the author of its con- trivance , the cause of the relation of its parts to their use .. With respect to these , the first watch was no cause at all to the second : in no such sense as this was it ...
... instance , is the maker of a chair ; the author of its con- trivance , the cause of the relation of its parts to their use .. With respect to these , the first watch was no cause at all to the second : in no such sense as this was it ...
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... instance , to a hundred , from a hundred to a thousand , & c . we make not the smallest approach , we ob- serve not the smallest tendency , towards self - support . There is no difference in this respect ( yet there may be a great ...
... instance , to a hundred , from a hundred to a thousand , & c . we make not the smallest approach , we ob- serve not the smallest tendency , towards self - support . There is no difference in this respect ( yet there may be a great ...
Pagina 13
... instance ; these laws require , in order to produce the same effect , that the rays of light , in passing from water into the eye , should be B refracted by a more convex surface than when it passes APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT . 13 ...
... instance ; these laws require , in order to produce the same effect , that the rays of light , in passing from water into the eye , should be B refracted by a more convex surface than when it passes APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT . 13 ...
Pagina 14
... instances , we trace mechanical contrivance a certain way ; and that then we come to something which is not mechanical , or which is in- scrutable . But this affects not the certainty of our inves- tigation , as far as we have gone ...
... instances , we trace mechanical contrivance a certain way ; and that then we come to something which is not mechanical , or which is in- scrutable . But this affects not the certainty of our inves- tigation , as far as we have gone ...
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