 | 1829 - 488 pàgines
...where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or past duration. These phenomena,... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1829 - 266 pàgines
...universe, which, like human institutions, carry with them the elements of their own destruction ; as he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age ; it was necessary in this theory to provide for reproduction, and such a provision Dr. Button has... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pàgines
...unto man, are 3 The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. //c may put... | |
 | 1831 - 448 pàgines
...still greater urgency. Is it not then most ° gratuitous to maintain, that the Author of Nature, " has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age?" If man may go wrong, as Mr Lyell asserts of former theorists, through a disposition to assume that... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which. like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their...His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any-sign by which we may estimate either theii future or their past duration. He may put an end, as... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 pàgines
...where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of 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... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pàgines
...than on the examination of the amount of changes now going on. " The Author of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy...estimate either their future or their past duration :" and the example of the planetary system was referred to in illustration of this5. And the persuasion... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pàgines
...than on the examination of the amount of changes now going on. " The Author of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy...estimate either their future or their past duration:" and the example of the planetary system was referred to in illustration of this ' . And the persuasion... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pàgines
...which, like the institutions of men, c;irry in themselves the elements of their own destruction ; be has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may esumate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning,... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 pàgines
...anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their...destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their... | |
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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... 
