The Works of William Paley: Natural TheologyC. and J. Rivington and J. Nunn, 1825 |
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... organisation , separately calculated for that purpose . 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 mea- sure , our admiration of ...
... organisation , separately calculated for that purpose . 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 mea- sure , our admiration of ...
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... organisation ? Whether a latent plantule with the means of temporary nutrition , or whatever else it be , it en- closes an organisation suited to the germination of a new plant . Has the plant which produced the seed any thing more to ...
... organisation ? Whether a latent plantule with the means of temporary nutrition , or whatever else it be , it en- closes an organisation suited to the germination of a new plant . Has the plant which produced the seed any thing more to ...
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... organised parts of the works of nature . As , I. When we are inquiring simply after the existence of an intelligent Creator , imperfection , inaccuracy , lia- bility to disorder , occasional irregularities , may subsist in a ...
... organised parts of the works of nature . As , I. When we are inquiring simply after the existence of an intelligent Creator , imperfection , inaccuracy , lia- bility to disorder , occasional irregularities , may subsist in a ...
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... organisation far short of those of the eye , such as we observe in fossil shells , pe- trified bones , or other substances which bear the vestiges of animal or vegetable recrements , but which , either in respect to utility , or of the ...
... organisation far short of those of the eye , such as we observe in fossil shells , pe- trified bones , or other substances which bear the vestiges of animal or vegetable recrements , but which , either in respect to utility , or of the ...
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... organised body of any kind , answering a valuable pur- pose by a complicated mechanism , the effect of chance . In no assignable instance hath such a thing existed without intention somewhere . IV . There is another answer which has the ...
... organised body of any kind , answering a valuable pur- pose by a complicated mechanism , the effect of chance . In no assignable instance hath such a thing existed without intention somewhere . IV . There is another answer which has the ...
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Términos y frases comunes
action adapted admissible laws aliment amongst animal answer appears attraction birds blood body bones brane called cartilage cause cavity centre cerning chyle common constitution contraction contrivance Creator degree Deity direction distance distinct drupeds earth effect eustachian tube existence experience farther feathers fibres fish flowers fluid gastric juice gizzard head hinge-joint human insects instance instruments intelligence intestines joint lacteal law of attraction less ligament light lungs means mechanism membrane motion mouth mucilage muscles muscular nature necessary nictitating membrane object observed œconomy operation organ organisation oviparous particles particular perceive perhaps plant principle proboscis produced properties purpose quadrupeds reason relation respect round secondly seed sense shell species spissitude stomach structure substance suppose surface teeth tendons terrestrial animals thing thread tion tribe tube variety vertebræ vessels wanted watch whilst wings
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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...