 | 1827 - 706 pages
...imagine, that so provident a cause as Nature had not • placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed • more probable, than that, since...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.' It is not, indeed, to be wondered at, that the structure of the body should turn men's thoughts... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...to imagine that so provident a cause " as Nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no " design seemed more probable than that since the...because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veli/i to the " limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and return through " tUe veins, whose... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 564 pages
...invited to think, that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that, since the...veins whose valves did not oppose its course that way."* This perception of design and contrivance is more peculiarly impressive, when we contemplate... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1814 - 424 pages
...had not placed so many valves " without design ; and no design seemed more " probable than that sincp the blood could not " well, because of the interposing...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course " that way*." — Thus the consideration of the D 3 final cause actually led to the discovery of the physical... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...to think, " that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many " valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, " than that, since the blood could not well, because of the in" terposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should " be sent through the arteries,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1818 - 348 pages
...ima" gine, that so provident a cause as Nature " had not placed so many valves without de" sign ; and no design seemed more probable, " than that, since...veins, whose valves did not oppose its " course that way." 284. An explanation of the use and abuse of the speculation concerning Final Causes, in the study... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 350 pages
...to think, that so provident a cause as nature ' had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design ' seemed more probable, than that, since the blood could not well, 1 because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the ' limbs, it should be sent through... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...think, " that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves '• without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that, since "...limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and re" turn through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that " way."* This perception of... | |
 | William Wadd - 1824 - 288 pages
...invited to think that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the...veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way." The reason here ascribed to Harvey seems now so very natural and obvious, that some have been... | |
 | 1836 - 708 pages
...to imagine, that so provident a cause as nature had not so placed so many valves without design, and no design seemed more probable, than that since the...veins whose valves did not oppose its course that way." On the principle, that "nature" was "a provident cause," and did not act without " design," Harvey... | |
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... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the... 
