 | John Playfait - 1822
...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...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... | |
 | 1829 - 492 pages
...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 - 266 pages
...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... | |
 | 1831 - 448 pages
...transferable to that rock with 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 Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...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... | |
 | sir Charles Lyell (bart.) - 1835 - 440 pages
...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 - 260 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 1046 pages
...than on the examination of the amount of changes now going on. " The Author of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy...we may estimate either their future or their past duration :" and the example of the planetary system was referred to in illustration of this5. And the... | |
 | William Whewell - 1837 - 646 pages
...than on the examination of the amount of changes now going on. " The Author of nature," it was said, " has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy...we may estimate either their future or their past duration:" and the example of the planetary system was referred to in illustration of this ' . And... | |
 | William Rhind - 1838 - 228 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
