A Grammar of Moral Philosophy, and Natural Theology: With a Summary of the Evidences of Christianity. Abstracted Chiefly from the Works of Dr. Paley. To which are Subjoined, Questions and Tables, Adapted to the Study of the Sacred ScripturesD. Longworth, 1817 - 248 |
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... proof that the eye was made for vision , as that the telescope was made to assist it . 9. The laws of refraction require , that the rays of light , in passing from water into the eye , should be refracted by a more convex surface than ...
... proof that the eye was made for vision , as that the telescope was made to assist it . 9. The laws of refraction require , that the rays of light , in passing from water into the eye , should be refracted by a more convex surface than ...
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... proofs of a designing creator . Objection . It is said , the parts were not intended for use , but that the use rose out of the design . Answer . Upon this principle , saws , planes , axes , & c . were made without design , and the ...
... proofs of a designing creator . Objection . It is said , the parts were not intended for use , but that the use rose out of the design . Answer . Upon this principle , saws , planes , axes , & c . were made without design , and the ...
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... proof of it ? Upon the play of the valves depends the life of the animal . They could not be formed by any action of the parts themselves Action and pressure are all against them . The blood has no tendency to produce such things ; we ...
... proof of it ? Upon the play of the valves depends the life of the animal . They could not be formed by any action of the parts themselves Action and pressure are all against them . The blood has no tendency to produce such things ; we ...
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... . nourish- ment , breathing , generation , running , flying , seeing , hearing , and smelling ; each appropriate , and each entirely different from the rest . 81. In proof of design , and accuracy in it 100 NATURAL THEOLOGY .
... . nourish- ment , breathing , generation , running , flying , seeing , hearing , and smelling ; each appropriate , and each entirely different from the rest . 81. In proof of design , and accuracy in it 100 NATURAL THEOLOGY .
Strona 101
... proof of design , and accuracy in it , we observe the correspondency of the two sides of the same animal , which forms one of the difficul- ties of the statuary . Illustration . The upper part of the face is composed of thirteen bones ...
... proof of design , and accuracy in it , we observe the correspondency of the two sides of the same animal , which forms one of the difficul- ties of the statuary . Illustration . The upper part of the face is composed of thirteen bones ...
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Strona 135 - That there is satisfactory evidence, that many, professing to be original witnesses of the Christian miracles, passed their lives in labors, dangers, and sufferings, voluntarily undergone in attestation of the accounts which they delivered, and solely in consequence of their belief of those accounts ; and that they also submitted, from the same motives, to new rules of conduct.
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Strona 124 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. "The insect youth are on the wing.
Strona 29 - Inequality of property, in the degree in which it exists in most countries of Europe, abstractedly considered, is an evil : but it is an evil which flows from those rules concerning the acquisition and disposal of property, by which men are incited to industry, and by which the object of their industry is rendered secure and valuable.
Strona 126 - They were, firstly, that in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial : secondly, that the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary for any other purpose ; or when the purpose, so far as it was necessary, might have been effected by the operation of pain.
Strona 51 - Reflections proper for this purpose, and which may be called the sedatives of anger, are the following: the possibility of mistaking the motives from which the conduct that offends us proceeded ; how often our offences have been the effect of inadvertency, when they were construed into indications of malice ; the inducement which prompted our adversary to act as he did, and how powerfully the same inducement has, at one time or other, operated upon ourselves ; that he is suffering perhaps under a...
Strona 125 - If he had wished our misery, he might have made sure of his purpose, by forming our senses to be so many sores and pains to us...
Strona 197 - The influence of religion is not to be sought for in the councils of princes, in the debates or resolutions of popular assemblies, in the conduct of governments towards their subjects or of states and sovereigns towards one another, of conquerors at the head of their armies...
Strona 133 - Strictly speaking, the narrative of a fact is then only contrary to experience, when the fact is related to have existed at a time and place, at which time and place we being present, did not perceive it to exist...