 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | Geology - 1831 - 448 pages
...their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...elements of their own destruction. He has 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 an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | William Whewell - Science - 1837 - 1046 pages
...of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future...planetary system was referred to in illustration of this5. And the persuasion that the champions of this theory were not disposed to accept the usual opinions... | |
 | William Whewell - Induction (Logic) - 1837 - 646 pages
...of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future...planetary system was referred to in illustration of this ' . And the persuasion that the champions of this theory were not disposed to accept the usual... | |
 | William Rhind - Earth - 1838 - 222 pages
...their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end — as he, no doubt, gave a beginning — to the present system at some determinate... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - Geology - 1846 - 216 pages
...their own 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 past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | William Whewell - Physical sciences - 1847 - 740 pages
...of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future...the usual opinions on the subject of creation, was 4 Lyell, i. 4, p. 94. allowed, perhaps very unjustly, to weigh strongly against them in the public... | |
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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... 
