 | John Playfair - 1822 - 552 pàgines
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pàgines
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | 1831 - 448 pàgines
...both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or terinitiation of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pàgines
...infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. //c may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - 634 pàgines
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 468 pàgines
...the eye so far, both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 pàgines
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as fie no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840 - 436 pàgines
...xü. l . (3) PS. viü. 5, (7) i Tim. vi. 15. (4) Ad Titum. iii. 4. (8) Matt. v. 6. 1 Cor. x. 31. (9) " He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning to the present system." Playfair'e Works, vokiv. p. 55. cit. a Lyell; fere saeculorum sériera effluxisse velint ex quo mundus... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 pàgines
...to imply, and the literal commentators do conceive : for unfpeakable myfteries in the Scriptures are may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the prefent fyftem at fome determinate period of time ; but we may reft affured that this great cataftrophe... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pàgines
...Playfair eloquently observes, ' It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
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The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may... 
