 | William Paley - 1830 - 296 pages
...DEITY. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 pages
...THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how die stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 692 pages
...crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone саше show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 pages
...State of the Argument. IN crowing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were naked ٶ liad lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But... | |
 | William Paley - 1833 - 356 pages
...THEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 416 pages
...a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer, f But suppose I had * The last note of the Appendix describes the... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 482 pages
...CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT.1 IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 480 pages
...CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT.' IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 646 pages
...such as pure native " In crossing a heath," (says Paley,) " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I...there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer."* Nay says the Geologist, for if the stone were a pebble, the adventures... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 pages
...Berzelius is nearly six hundred, that of simple substances, or elementary principles, is fifty-four. to be there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there ibr ever : nor would it perhaps- be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer."* Nay says the... | |
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I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should... 
