 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...  The Popular Science Monthly - Pàgina 6531876Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1803 - 572 pàgines
...concludes ' that, in the ccconomy of the world, we see no marks either of a beginning or an end;' ' that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...in themselves the elements of their own destruction I' and that, ' though he may put an end, as he gave a beginning, to the present system^ at some determinate... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1817 - 162 pàgines
...conclusions, and in inanimate nature, we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves the elements of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved in unchangeable perfection, and as it were in eternal youth. If there... | |
 | 1818 - 400 pàgines
...similar conclusions, and in inanimate nature we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the ele1 Brande's Outlines of Geology, p. 20. raents of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pàgines
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...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... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 552 pàgines
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...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... | |
 | 1829 - 488 pàgines
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pàgines
...is unreasonable indeed, to suppose, that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature hus not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions...themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1829 - 266 pàgines
...present strata as on their road to the deep — it -allows of no exception to the law of decay. But as the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like human institutions, carry with them the elements of their own destruction ; as he has not permitted... | |
 | 1831 - 448 pàgines
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pàgines
...Scriptures are often delivered in a vulgar and illustrative way ; and being written unto man, are 3 The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate... | |
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