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... kind father , an indulgent master , and a faithful friend . Though economical both from principle and habit , he was liberal in all his pecuniary transactions , and charitable to the poor . Affable and plain in his manners , he ...
... kind father , an indulgent master , and a faithful friend . Though economical both from principle and habit , he was liberal in all his pecuniary transactions , and charitable to the poor . Affable and plain in his manners , he ...
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... kind of rapid declamation which imposes so much on the multitude , for in speaking of an orator of this description he once observed , " I know nothing against the man , but that he is a very popular preacher . " Having prosecuted one ...
... kind of rapid declamation which imposes so much on the multitude , for in speaking of an orator of this description he once observed , " I know nothing against the man , but that he is a very popular preacher . " Having prosecuted one ...
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... kind exalts our opinion of the unseen and unknown artist's skill , if he be unseen and unknown , but raises no doubt in our minds of the existence and agency of such an artist , at some former time , and in some place or other . Nor can ...
... kind exalts our opinion of the unseen and unknown artist's skill , if he be unseen and unknown , but raises no doubt in our minds of the existence and agency of such an artist , at some former time , and in some place or other . Nor can ...
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... kind of it , this circumstance varies not the analogy at all . For , observe what the constitution of the eye is . It is necessary , in order to produce distinct vision , that an image or picture of the object be formed at the bottom of ...
... kind of it , this circumstance varies not the analogy at all . For , observe what the constitution of the eye is . It is necessary , in order to produce distinct vision , that an image or picture of the object be formed at the bottom of ...
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... be laid out of the question ; for the production of the image , these are instruments of the same kind . The end is the same ; the means are the same . The pur- pose in both is alike ; the contrivance for accomplish- THE ARGUMENT . 15.
... be laid out of the question ; for the production of the image , these are instruments of the same kind . The end is the same ; the means are the same . The pur- pose in both is alike ; the contrivance for accomplish- THE ARGUMENT . 15.
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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.