 | 1803 - 818 pagina’s
...watch before ue to have been produced 1'rom another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely. Contrivance is still unaccounted for. We still want...supplied by this supposition, nor dispensed with." (p. 13.) " The conclusion which the ./># examination of the watch, of its works, construction, and... | |
 | 1807 - 1012 pagina’s
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing the watch before" us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....difficulty were diminished the further we went back indefinitely, we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to which this sort of reasoning applies.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1004 pagina’s
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing th^ watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....degree of satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is stifl unaccounted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied by this supposition,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1014 pagina’s
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....brings us no nearer to the least degree of satisfaction upoa the subject. Contrivance is still unaccounted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pagina’s
...these properties, therefore, are as much unaccounted for as they were before. IV. Nor is any tiling gained by running the difficulty further back, ie...were diminished the further we went back, by going back indefmitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to which this sort of reasoning applies.... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pagina’s
...these properties therefore, are as much unaccounted for as they were before. IV. Nor is any tiling gained by running the difficulty further back, ie...satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is still unac. counted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied by Oils supposition,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 558 pagina’s
...by -.'.ippoiing ilie watch before us to have been produced by another watch, that from -; foniif-r, and so on indefinitely. Our going back ever so far...satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is still unact 'junteil for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied !»» this supposition,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pagina’s
...running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....dispensed with. If the difficulty were diminished the farther we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pagina’s
...running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....supplied by this supposition, nor dispensed with. Our observer would further also reflect, that the maker of the watch before him was, in truth and reality,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pagina’s
...running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....dispensed with. If the difficulty were diminished the farther we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to... | |
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Nor is any thing gained by running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on >indefinitely. Our going back ever so far, brings us no nearer to the least degree... 
