Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature, Volume 1F.C. and J. Rivington, 1822 - 364 pagina's |
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... reason , and for no other , viz . that , when we come to inspect the watch , we perceive ( what we could not discover in the stone ) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose , e . g . that they are so formed and ...
... reason , and for no other , viz . that , when we come to inspect the watch , we perceive ( what we could not discover in the stone ) that its several parts are framed and put together for a purpose , e . g . that they are so formed and ...
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... reason for doing what he had already done , -for referring the construction of the watch to design , and to supreme art . If that construction without this property , or which is the same thing , before this property had been noticed ...
... reason for doing what he had already done , -for referring the construction of the watch to design , and to supreme art . If that construction without this property , or which is the same thing , before this property had been noticed ...
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... reason is , that the diminished light in water is never too strong for the retina . In the eel , which has to work its head through sand and gravel , the roughest and harshest sub- stances , there is placed before the eye , and at some ...
... reason is , that the diminished light in water is never too strong for the retina . In the eel , which has to work its head through sand and gravel , the roughest and harshest sub- stances , there is placed before the eye , and at some ...
Pagina 25
... reasons of its motion . and action t . ' In the configuration of the muscle which , though placed behind the eye , draws the nictitating mem- brane over the eye , there is , what the authors , just now quoted , deservedly call a ...
... reasons of its motion . and action t . ' In the configuration of the muscle which , though placed behind the eye , draws the nictitating mem- brane over the eye , there is , what the authors , just now quoted , deservedly call a ...
Pagina 26
... nature . The question , therefore , is of very wide extent ; and amongst other answers which may be given to it , besides reasons of which probably we are ignorant , one answer is this : It is only by the 26 NATURAL THEOLOGY .
... nature . The question , therefore , is of very wide extent ; and amongst other answers which may be given to it , besides reasons of which probably we are ignorant , one answer is this : It is only by the 26 NATURAL THEOLOGY .
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