 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...greatest distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars arc the centres of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 pages
...distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of similar systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsels,... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only arise from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars be... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only arise from the counsel and dominion of a powerful and intelligent Being. And if the fixed stars be... | |
 | 1830 - 854 pages
...at the close of his account of that part of the material universe to which our world belongs, that " this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being," and asserting, that " to discourse of him from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to... | |
 | Robert Ainslie - 1831 - 290 pages
...in treating of evidence the most important in existence. ESSAY I. EVIDENCES OF NATURAL RELIGION. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from THE COUNSEL AND DOMINION OP AN INTELLIGENT, POWERFUL BEING). This Being GOvERNS ALL THINGS, not as the soul of the world, but... | |
 | James Martineau - 1836 - 500 pages
...Supreme Author of the magnificence which he had been interpreting : — " This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed stars are centres of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1880 - 726 pages
...shaping of physical theories by spiritual intuitions. Newton, near the close of his Principia, says: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, should,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1880
...shaping of physical theories by spiritual intuitions. Newton, ,near the close of his Principia, says: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion ot an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable... | |
 | Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 pages
...thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. 1220. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only arise from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being; and if the fixed stars be... | |
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. 
