Natural theology; or, Evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity, illustr. by plates and notes by J. PaxtonJ. Vincent., 1826 |
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Pagina xvii
... .bodily pain . winged insects . aphides . fish . mortal diseases . death . Civil evils of population . distinctions . wealth . idleness . Objections from chance answered . Must be chance in the midst of design . Ignorance CONTENTS . xvii.
... .bodily pain . winged insects . aphides . fish . mortal diseases . death . Civil evils of population . distinctions . wealth . idleness . Objections from chance answered . Must be chance in the midst of design . Ignorance CONTENTS . xvii.
Pagina xxiii
... answer , that , for any thing I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how ...
... answer , that , for any thing I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how ...
Pagina xxiv
... answered the use that is now served by it . To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts , and of their offices , all tending to one result : -we see a cylindrical ' box containing a coiled elastic spring , which , by its endeavour ...
... answered the use that is now served by it . To reckon up a few of the plainest of these parts , and of their offices , all tending to one result : -we see a cylindrical ' box containing a coiled elastic spring , which , by its endeavour ...
Pagina 6
... answered , that there existed in things a principle of order , which had disposed the parts of the watch into their present form and si- tuation . He never knew a watch made by the principle of order ; nor can he even form to him- self ...
... answered , that there existed in things a principle of order , which had disposed the parts of the watch into their present form and si- tuation . He never knew a watch made by the principle of order ; nor can he even form to him- self ...
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... answer is given to this question , by telling us that a preced- ing watch produced it . There cannot be design without a designer ; contrivance , without a con- triver ; order , without choice ; arrangement , with- out any thing capable ...
... answer is given to this question , by telling us that a preced- ing watch produced it . There cannot be design without a designer ; contrivance , without a con- triver ; order , without choice ; arrangement , with- out any thing capable ...
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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ... William Paley Volledige weergave - 1803 |
Natural Theology: or, evidences of the existence and attributes of the Deity ... William Paley Volledige weergave - 1803 |
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Pagina 4 - ... the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer: who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Pagina 151 - Swarms of new-born flies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel in their lately discovered faculties.
Pagina 160 - Contrivance proves design ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world abounds with contrivances ; and all the contrivances which we are acquainted with are directed to beneficial purposes.
Pagina 152 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy, that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes, their vivacity, their leaps out of the water, their frolics in it (\vhich I have noticed a thousand times with equal attention and amusement,) all conduce to show their excess of spirits, and are simply the effects of that excess.
Pagina 156 - This shows that the common course of things is in favour of happiness ; that happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.
Pagina 145 - The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge ; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.
Pagina 11 - There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance without a contriver; order without choice; arrangement, without any thing capable of arranging; subserviency and relation to a purpose, without that which could intend a purpose; means suitable to an end, and executing their office in accomplishing that end, without the end ever having been contemplated, or the means accommodated to it. Arrangement, disposition of parts, subserviency of means to an end, relation of instruments to an use, imply...
Pagina 154 - But it is not for youth alone that the great Parent of creation hath provided. Happiness is found with the purring cat, no less than with the playful kitten ; in the arm-chair of dozing age, as well as in either the sprightliness of the dance or the animation of the chase.
Pagina 145 - ... does. The light from a fixed star affects our eyes in the same manner, is refracted and reflected according to the same laws, as the light of a candle. The velocity of the light of the fixed stars is also the same as the velocity of the light of the sun, reflected from the satellites of Jupiter. The heat of the sun, in kind, differs nothing from the heat of a coal fire.
Pagina 202 - The human animal is the only one which is naked, and the only one which can clothe itself. This is one of the properties which renders him an animal of all climates, and of all seasons. He can adapt the warmth or lightness of his covering to the temperature of his habitation. Had he been born with a fleece upon his back, although he might have been comforted by its warmth in high latitudes, it would have oppressed him by its weight and heat, as the species spread towards the equator.