 | John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. | It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, cither of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | William Rhind - 1838 - 224 pages
...eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...— to the present system at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840 - 436 pages
...xü. l . (3) PS. viü. 5, (7) i Tim. vi. 15. (4) Ad Titum. iii. 4. (8) Matt. v. 6. 1 Cor. x. 31. (9) " He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning to the present system." Playfair'e Works, vokiv. p. 55. cit. a Lyell; fere saeculorum sériera effluxisse velint ex quo mundus... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - 420 pages
...to imply, and the literal commentators do conceive : for unfpeakable myfteries in the Scriptures are may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the prefent fyftem at fome determinate period of time ; but we may reft affured that this great cataftrophe... | |
 | Samuel Sidwell Randall - 1846 - 216 pages
...in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we...to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | 1846 - 588 pages
...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may esumate either their future or their past duration. He may...of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catarro], he will not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by anything... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 pages
...eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1858 - 456 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, manhood, or old age. He may put an end, as He no doubt gave a beginning,...system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws now existing... | |
 | Harland Coultas - 1859 - 204 pages
...has not permitted in his works any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we might estimate either their future or their past duration....to the present system at some determinate period, but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
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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... 
