The Works of William Paley: Natural TheologyC. and J. Rivington and J. Nunn, 1825 |
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... body of the watch already made in such a manner , as to form a new watch in the course of the movements which he had given to the old one . It is only working by one set of tools , instead of another . The conclusion which the first ...
... body of the watch already made in such a manner , as to form a new watch in the course of the movements which he had given to the old one . It is only working by one set of tools , instead of another . The conclusion which the first ...
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... bodies applied to the bones of the skull , as by a metal bar holden at one end between the teeth , and touching at the other end a tremulous body . It likewise appears to be done , in a considerable degree , by the air itself , even ...
... bodies applied to the bones of the skull , as by a metal bar holden at one end between the teeth , and touching at the other end a tremulous body . It likewise appears to be done , in a considerable degree , by the air itself , even ...
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... body is , in general at least , composed ; and with which the whole of its surface , this single portion of it excepted , is covered ) : secondly , of a black cloth or canvas ( the only membrane of the body which is black ) spread out ...
... body is , in general at least , composed ; and with which the whole of its surface , this single portion of it excepted , is covered ) : secondly , of a black cloth or canvas ( the only membrane of the body which is black ) spread out ...
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... body , for instance , chance , i . e . the operation of causes without design , may produce a wen , a wart , a mole , a pimple , but never an eye . Amongst inanimate substances , a clod , a pebble , a liquid drop , might be ; but never ...
... body , for instance , chance , i . e . the operation of causes without design , may produce a wen , a wart , a mole , a pimple , but never an eye . Amongst inanimate substances , a clod , a pebble , a liquid drop , might be ; but never ...
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... bodies which seem to depend upon the will of the animal in a greater degree than the senses do , and yet with respect to which , this solution is equally unsatisfactory . If we apply the solution to the human body , for instance , it ...
... bodies which seem to depend upon the will of the animal in a greater degree than the senses do , and yet with respect to which , this solution is equally unsatisfactory . If we apply the solution to the human body , for instance , it ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página xvii - 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. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, — that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Página 313 - Swarms of new-born flies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel in their lately discovered faculties.
Página 321 - ... this is to irritate; this to inflame; this duct is to convey the gravel to the kidneys; this gland to secrete the humour which forms the gout.
Página 370 - I say that, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. To have made this the ruling, the habitual sentiment of our minds, is to have laid the foundation of everything which is religious. The world thenceforth becomes a temple, and life itself one continued act of adoration.
Página 285 - A law presupposes an agent, for it "is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds ; it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the " law
Página 318 - One great cause of our insensibility to the goodness of the Creator is, the very extensiveness of his bounty. We prize but little what we share only in common with the rest, or with the generality of our species. When we hear of blessings, we think forthwith of successes, of prosperous fortunes, of...
Página 9 - For instance; these laws require, in order to produce the same effect, that the rays of light, in passing from water into the eye, should be refracted by a more convex surface than when it passes out of air into the eye. Accordingly we find that the eye of a 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...
Página 103 - Consider what an affair this is, when we come to very large animals. The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the waterworks at London bridge; and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior, in impetus and velocity, to the blood gushing from the whale's heart.
Página 1 - A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing, is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and harsh to a philosophic ear; but it seems quite as justifiable as some others which are more familiar to him, such as "the law of vegetable nature,
Página 148 - A friend of mine counted fifty of these fibres in one twentieth of an inch. These fibres are crooked ; but curved after a different manner : for those which proceed from the thread on the side towards...