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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... 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 sup- pose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to ...
... 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 sup- pose I had found a watch upon the ground , and it should be inquired how the watch happened to ...
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... thing supposed , namely , that there were parts which might be spared , without prejudice to the movement of the ... things a principle of order , which had disposed the parts of the watch into their present form and situation . He never ...
... thing supposed , namely , that there were parts which might be spared , without prejudice to the movement of the ... things a principle of order , which had disposed the parts of the watch into their present form and situation . He never ...
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... thing but an additional 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 ...
... thing but an additional 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 ...
Pagina 7
... thing , we may ask for the cause of different properties . We may ask for the cause of the co- lour of a body , of its hardness , of its heat ; and these causes may be all different . We are now asking for the cause of that subserviency ...
... thing , we may ask for the cause of different properties . We may ask for the cause of the co- lour of a body , of its hardness , of its heat ; and these causes may be all different . We are now asking for the cause of that subserviency ...
Pagina 8
... thing gained by running the dif- ficulty farther back , i , e . 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 ...
... thing gained by running the dif- ficulty farther back , i , e . 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 ...
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