| William Paley - 1788 - 584 pagina’s
...contrivances which we we arc acquainted with, are directed to beneficial purpofes. Evil no doubt exifts j but is never, that we can perceive, the object of...and then is incidental to the contrivance, perhaps, inicparable from it ; or even, if you will, let it be called a defect in the contrivance ; but it is... | |
| William Paley - 1793 - 430 pagina’s
...defign ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the difpofition of the defigner. The world abounds with contrivances ; and all the...we are acquainted with, are directed to beneficial purpofes. Evil no doubt exifts; but is never, that we can perceive, the object of contrivance. Teeth... | |
| William Paley - 1793 - 602 pagina’s
...directed to beneficiai jmrpofes. Evil no doubt exifts ; but is never, that we can perceive, the obje£t of contrivance. Teeth are contrived to eat, not to ache ; their aching HOW and then is incidental to ihe contrivance, perhaps, infeparable from it ; or even, if you will,... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 636 pagina’s
...directed to beneficial purpofes. Evil nodoubt exills ; but it is never that we can perceive the objeft of contrivance. Teeth are contrived to eat, not to...ache; their aching now and then is incidental to the contiivance, perhaps inseparable from it ; but it is not its objed. This is a diftindion which well... | |
| George Combe - 1803 - 280 pagina’s
...different terms, thus : Contrivance proves design, and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world...acquainted with are directed to beneficial purposes."* Many of the contrivances of the Creator for effecting beneficial purposes have been discovered by philosophers:... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 498 pagina’s
...different terms, thus : Contrivance proves design ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world...beneficial purposes. Evil, no doubt, exists ; but it is never, that we can perceive, the object of contrivance. Teeth are contrived to eat, not to ache... | |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach - 1817 - 452 pagina’s
...Caspian lake, " Contrivance proies design ; and the predominant tendency of the contrivance in'lica.es the disposition of the designer. The world abounds...the contrivances which we are acquainted with, are dirocu-d to benefieial purposes. Evil, no doubt, exists; but is never, that we can perceive, the object... | |
| 1848 - 396 pagina’s
...world abounds with contrivances, and all directed to beneficial purposes. Evil no doubt exists ; but it is never, that we can perceive, the object of contrivance. Teeth are contrived to eat—not to ache. Objects of contrivance to produce pain and misery are never found in the works of... | |
| 1822 - 192 pagina’s
...every sound a harsh noise. We see the world abounds with contrivances!, but we should remember that all the contrivances which we are acquainted with,...never that we can perceive the object of contrivance. In describing implements of husbandry, you would hardly fay of the sickle, that it was made to cut... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 382 pagina’s
...in different terms; thus: Contrivance proves design : andthepredominant tendency of the contrivance indicates the disposition of the designer. The world...beneficial purposes. Evil, no doubt, exists ; but is nerer, that we can perceive, the object of contrivance, Teeth are contrived to eat, not to ache ; their... | |
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