 | 1849 - 604 pàgines
...rashly to suppose that we have arrived at the true meaning of the whole of that book. ' It is not at nil incredible that a book which has been so long ' in...possession of mankind, should contain many truths as ' yet undiscerned. For all the same phenomena and the same ' faculties of investigation, from which such... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1813 - 496 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so...be intended, ' ' - . '/••''• * Heb. vi. 1. f Acts iii. 21. 1 4 that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1819 - 256 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long...thousand years before- And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.... | |
 | Joseph Butler (bp. of Durham.) - 1819 - 362 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all Incredible, that a book, which has been so...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1820 - 264 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long...should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, alt the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from •which such great discoveries... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 478 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so...before. And possibly it might be intended, * Heb. vi. I. f Acts iii. 21. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1824 - 484 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so...investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knoweldge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 414 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.... | |
 | 1834 - 588 pàgines
...were, dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - 1836 - 520 pàgines
...hints as it were dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seemed to come into our minds by chance. For all the same phenomena, and the same faculties...possession of mankind several thousand years before," The latter years of his life were passed with little variety in the society of his family and friends,... | |
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Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural... 
