 | 1802 - 764 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without...distinct from itself, the law does nothing; is nothing. The expression, ' the law of ' metallic nature,' may sound harsh to a philosophic ear, but it seems... | |
 | 1803 - 818 pages
...Unitaria» 'Irnctt; we think, nevertheless, their rest will not be disturbed. ' StoJ RtricïK of Palsy's to which that power acts: without this agent, without...itself power: mechanism, without power, can do nothing. The intervention and disposition of second causes, tall under the same observation." Neither the one... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1004 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds, it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....distinct from itself, the law does nothing ; is nothing. The expression, w the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and harsh to a philosophic car, but... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1014 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds, it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....distinct from itself, the law does nothing; is .nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and harsh to a philosophic ear, but... | |
 | 1807 - 1012 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds, it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....power,, which are both distinct from itself, the law doca nothing ; is nothing. The expression, "the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and harsb... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....distinct from itself, the law does nothing ; is nothing. The expression, " the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and harsh to a philosophick ear, but... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - 1810 - 350 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode,. according to. which an acent proceeds : it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without P 3. '33*. BEAUTIES OF PALET. this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law does nothing... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...agent j for it is only the mode, according to w Inch an agent proceeds: it implies a power; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....this power, which are. both distinct from itself, the taw does nothing; is nothing. The expression, " the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts....this power, which are both distinct from itself, the lain docs nothing; is nothing. The expression, " the law of metallic nature," may sound strange and... | |
 | 1836 - 790 pages
...an agent ; this is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without...from itself, the law does nothing — is nothing." — Paley's Nat. Theol. cis 7-J To return to Mr. Bakewell. He proves in the third division of his work,... | |
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A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the law... 
