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" ... 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 may estimate either their future... "
Principles of Geology: Being an Inquiry how Far the Former Changes of the ... - Page 95
by Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 546 pages
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1803 - 572 pages
...period, it may be safely concluded that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive.' i We have thus endeavoured to give a general idea of the celf. brated Theory of Dr. Hutcon, from the...
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The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...

John Playfair - 1822 - 554 pages
...sign by which 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,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. It would be desirable to trace the progress of an author's mind in the formation of a system where...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 4

John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...sign by which 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,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. It would be desirable to trace the progress of an author's mind in the formation of a system where...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 1

John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...sign by which 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 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 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 11

1831 - 448 pages
...sign by which 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,...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. (2.) Hutton according to MacCuttoch. — The theory of Hutton is best known through the commentary...
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Religio Medici

Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 180 pages
...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...it is not indicated by any thing which we perceive. — Playfair's Life of Hutton, quoted in Lyell's Geology, vol ip 65. delivered, not as they truly are,...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 10

Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...sign by which 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 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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 65

1837 - 608 pages
...Lyell, 'that the party feel' ing excited against the Huttonian doctrines, and the open disre' gard of candour and temper in the controversy, will hardly be ' credited by our readers, unless we recall to their recollection that ' the mind of the English public was at that...
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The Age of the Earth Considered Geologically and Historically

William Rhind - 1838 - 222 pages
...sign by which 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 period ; but we may safely conclude, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws...
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Titan: A Monthly Magazine..., Volume 2

1846 - 436 pages
...sign by which 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,...laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by anything which we perceive.' Such is the simple yet comprehensive system of Hutton, which, in most...
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