The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author, Volumen1Thomas Tegg, 1825 |
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... fish , in that part of it called the crystalline lens , is much rounder than the eye of terrestrial animals . What plainer manifestation of design can there be than this difference ? What could a mathematical instrument - maker have ...
... fish , in that part of it called the crystalline lens , is much rounder than the eye of terrestrial animals . What plainer manifestation of design can there be than this difference ? What could a mathematical instrument - maker have ...
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... fishes also , compared with those of ter- restrial animals , exhibit certain distinctions of struc- ture , adapted to their state and element . We have already observed upon the figure of the crystalline compensating by 22 APPLICATION OF.
... fishes also , compared with those of ter- restrial animals , exhibit certain distinctions of struc- ture , adapted to their state and element . We have already observed upon the figure of the crystalline compensating by 22 APPLICATION OF.
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... fish , in their natural and indolent state , appear to be adjusted to near ob- jects , in this respect differing from the human eye , as well as those of quadrupeds and birds . The ordinary shape of the fish's eye being in a much higher ...
... fish , in their natural and indolent state , appear to be adjusted to near ob- jects , in this respect differing from the human eye , as well as those of quadrupeds and birds . The ordinary shape of the fish's eye being in a much higher ...
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... fish , the element in which they live supplying a constant lotion to the eye . It were , however , injustice to dismiss the eye as a piece of mechanism , without noticing that most ex- quisite of all contrivances , the nictitating ...
... fish , the element in which they live supplying a constant lotion to the eye . It were , however , injustice to dismiss the eye as a piece of mechanism , without noticing that most ex- quisite of all contrivances , the nictitating ...
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... fish ; which furnishes an ad- ditional proof of what indeed is indicated by every thing about it , that it is appropriated to the action of air , or of an elastic medium . It bears an obvious re- semblance to the pelt or head of a drum ...
... fish ; which furnishes an ad- ditional proof of what indeed is indicated by every thing about it , that it is appropriated to the action of air , or of an elastic medium . It bears an obvious re- semblance to the pelt or head of a drum ...
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Página 336 - If we look to what the waters produce, shoals of the fry of fish frequent the margins of rivers, of lakes, and of the sea itself. These are so happy that they know not what to do with themselves. Their attitudes...
Página 14 - As far as the examination of the instrument goes, there is precisely the same proof that the eye was made for vision, as there is that the telescope was made for assisting it. They are made upon the same principles ; both being adjusted to the laws by which the transmission and refraction of rays of light are regulated.
Página 2 - ... a different size from what they are, or placed after any other manner, or in any other order, than that in which they are placed, either no motion at all would have been carried on in the machine, or none which would have answered the use that is now served by it.
Página 13 - What effect would this discovery have, or ought it to have, upon our former inference ? What, as hath already been said, but to increase, beyond measure, our admiration of the skill, which had been employed in the formation of such a machine ? Or shall it, instead of this, all at once turn us round to an opposite conclusion, viz. that no art or skill whatever has been concerned in the business, although all other evidences of art and skill remain as they were, and this last and supreme piece of art...
Página 8 - ... is ground. But the effect results from the arrangement. The force of the stream cannot be said to be the cause or author of the effect, still less of the arrangement. Understanding and plan in the formation of the mill were not the less necessary, for any share which the water has in grinding the corn ; yet is this share the same as that which the watch would have contributed to the production of the new watch, upon the supposition assumed in the last section.
Página 278 - MY opinion of Astronomy has always been, that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shows beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations.
Página 337 - A child, without knowing anything of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate sounds, or perhaps of the single word which it has learnt to pronounce, proves this point clearly.
Página 1 - IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.
Página 12 - The conclusion which the first examination of the watch, of its works, construction, and movement suggested, was, that it must have had, for the cause and author of that construction, an artificer, who understood its mechanism, and designed its use. This conclusion is invincible.