 | John Playfait - 1822 - Počet stránok 668
...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...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... | |
 | 1829 - Počet stránok 488
...the 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 past duration. These phenomena, then, are all so many marks of the lapse of time, among which the principles... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - 1829 - Počet stránok 266
...universe, which, like human institutions, carry with them the elements of their own destruction ; as he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age ; it was necessary in this theory to provide for reproduction, and such a provision Dr. Button has... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - Počet stránok 180
...the 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... | |
 | 1831 - Počet stránok 448
...still greater urgency. Is it not then most ° gratuitous to maintain, that the Author of Nature, " has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age?" If man may go wrong, as Mr Lyell asserts of former theorists, through a disposition to assume that... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - Počet stránok 440
...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 may estimate either theii future or their past duration. He may put an end, as... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Počet stránok 260
...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...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 - 1837 - Počet stránok 646
...earth had been tenanted, took strong hold of the geologists of England, France, and Germany. Hutton, though he denied that there was evidence of a beginning...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 Whewell - 1837 - Počet stránok 1046
...earth had been tenanted, took strong hold of the geologists of England, France, and Germany. Hutton, though he denied that there was evidence of a beginning...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 Rhind - 1838 - Počet stránok 230
...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...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... | |
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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... 
