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Such is the sincere judgment which I have formed of your Lordship's character,
and of its public value: my personal obligations I can never forget. Under a due
sense of both these considerations, I beg leave to subscribe myself, with great ...
Such is the sincere judgment which I have formed of your Lordship's character,
and of its public value: my personal obligations I can never forget. Under a due
sense of both these considerations, I beg leave to subscribe myself, with great ...
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I. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a
watch made: that we had never known an artist capable of making one; that we
were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, ...
I. Nor would it, I apprehend, weaken the conclusion, that we had never seen a
watch made: that we had never known an artist capable of making one; that we
were altogether incapable of executing such a piece of workmanship ourselves, ...
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And of this we are assured, (though we never can have tried the experiment,)
because, by inci easing the number of links, from ten, for instance, to a hundred,
from a hundred to a thousand, &c. we make not the smallest approach, we
observe ...
And of this we are assured, (though we never can have tried the experiment,)
because, by inci easing the number of links, from ten, for instance, to a hundred,
from a hundred to a thousand, &c. we make not the smallest approach, we
observe ...
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These difficulties present not themselves to the maker of the telescope. He wants
all the light he can get; and he never directs his instrument to objects near at
hand. In the eye, both these cases were to be provided for; and for the purpose of
...
These difficulties present not themselves to the maker of the telescope. He wants
all the light he can get; and he never directs his instrument to objects near at
hand. In the eye, both these cases were to be provided for; and for the purpose of
...
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This is a great difference, of which the probable reason is, that the diminished
light in water is never too strong for the retina. In the eel, [Plate III. fig. 5.] which
has to work its head through sand and gravel, the roughest and harshest
substances, ...
This is a great difference, of which the probable reason is, that the diminished
light in water is never too strong for the retina. In the eel, [Plate III. fig. 5.] which
has to work its head through sand and gravel, the roughest and harshest
substances, ...
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity |
| Auteur | William Paley |
| geïllustreerd door | James Paxton |
| Uitgever | Gould and Lincoln, 1855 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | de University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 24 jan 2017 |
| Lengte | 420 pagina's |
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