 | 1846 - 436 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... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...which, like the institutions of men, c;irry in themselves the elements of their own destruction ; be has 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 put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning,... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 512 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 - 1857 - 606 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 or of old age, ojj any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration :' and the example... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - 682 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.4 And a... | |
 | Harland Coultas - 1859 - 204 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 might estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1862 - 466 pages
...the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in hig works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry m 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 cither their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to... | |
 | Harland Coultas - 1863 - 200 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 might estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a... | |
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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... 
