Astronomy and General Physics: Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, 1852 - 328 pàgines |
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... kind of laws , they are in the highest degree various and unlike each other . The intensity and activity of natural influences follow in different cases the most different rules . instances they are periodical , increasing and dimi ...
... kind of laws , they are in the highest degree various and unlike each other . The intensity and activity of natural influences follow in different cases the most different rules . instances they are periodical , increasing and dimi ...
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... kind were to take place , the working of the botanical world would be thrown into utter disorder , the functions of plants would be entirely deranged , and the whole vegetable kingdom involved in instant decay and rapid extinction ...
... kind were to take place , the working of the botanical world would be thrown into utter disorder , the functions of plants would be entirely deranged , and the whole vegetable kingdom involved in instant decay and rapid extinction ...
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... kind . Just such a portion of time is measured out for the vegetable powers to execute their task , as enables them to do so in the best manner . Now such an adjustment must surely be accepted as a proof of design , exercised in the ...
... kind . Just such a portion of time is measured out for the vegetable powers to execute their task , as enables them to do so in the best manner . Now such an adjustment must surely be accepted as a proof of design , exercised in the ...
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... the first instance , an agreement in the form of the laws that prevail in the organic and in the inorganic world , which appears to us a clear evidence of design in their Author . And the same kind of reply might be LENGTH OF THE YEAR . 25.
... the first instance , an agreement in the form of the laws that prevail in the organic and in the inorganic world , which appears to us a clear evidence of design in their Author . And the same kind of reply might be LENGTH OF THE YEAR . 25.
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Considered with Reference to Natural Theology William Whewell. Author . And the same kind of reply might be made to any similar objection to our argument . Any suppo sition that the universe has gradually approximated to that state of ...
Considered with Reference to Natural Theology William Whewell. Author . And the same kind of reply might be made to any similar objection to our argument . Any suppo sition that the universe has gradually approximated to that state of ...
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Pàgina 92 - to take place in their chaos ? " For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms:— to whom these most adhere He rules a moment: Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray." * A state of things something like that which Milton
Pàgina 1 - of the Authenticity and Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures; a Summary of the History ol the Jews; an Account of the Jewish Sects; and a brief statement of the Contents of the several Books of the Old and New Testaments. Nineteenth Edition, elegantly printed on fine paper,
Pàgina 298 - he the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living Agent, who being in all places, is more able by his will to move the bodies within his boundless uniform sensorium, and thereby to form and reform the parts of the universe, than
Pàgina 192 - that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of experiments." The hypothesis which he thus suggests is, that there is an elastic medium pervading all space, and increasing
Pàgina 5 - 1 large vol. royal 8vo, Illustrated by upwards of 230 humorous and extremely clever Wood run In France, greater even than the Pickwick Papers In this country. This book is extremely clever, both in the letter-press and plates, and has had an Immense POOLE'S COMIC SKETCH BOOK; OR, SKETCHES AND RECOLLECTIONS BY THE
Pàgina 308 - of which nature is composed, if, moreover, it were sufficiently comprehensive to subject these data to calculation, would include in the same formula, the movements of the largest bodies of the universe and those of the slightest atom. Nothing would be uncertain to such an intelligence, and the future, no less than the past, would be present to its eyes.
Pàgina 9 - LIFE OF DR. JOHNSON; BY THE RIGHT HON. JC CROKER, Incorporating his Tour to the Hebrides, and accompanied by the Commentaries of all preceding Editors: with numerous additional Notes and Illustrative Anecdotes; to which are added Two Supplementary Volumes of Anecdotes by HAWKINS, Fiozzi,
Pàgina 289 - from our natural philosophy. The great authority of Bacon is usually adduced on this subject. " The handling of final causes," says he, "mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes, and given men the occasion to stay upon these satisfactory and specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of farther discovery.
Pàgina 140 - going on in the same direction since the beginning of the history of the world. But the restoration is in the sequel as complete as the derangement; and in the mean time the disturbance never attains a sufficient amount seriously to alter the adaptations of the system.* The same examination of the subject by which
Pàgina 147 - they continue opaque ; or all they be changed into opaque ones, while he continued unchanged: I do not think explicable by mere natural causes, but am forced to ascribe it to the counsel and contrivance of a voluntary Agent.