 | William Paley - 1836 - 628 pages
...July, 1802. CHAPTER I. State of the Argument. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot •gainst a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there...there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But su]>pose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should... | |
 | William Paley - 1836 - 480 pages
...Autumnal crocus, 452. 44. Pitcher-plant, 455. NATURAL THEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT.' IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...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 - 482 pages
...Autumnal crocus, 452. 44. Pitcher-plant, 455. NATURAL THEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT.1 IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...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 - 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 Buckland - 1837 - 646 pages
...mineral substances, which are rare in Nature, such as pure native " In crossing a heath," (says Paley,) " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were...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 Paley - 1837 - 428 pages
...Labouring Part of the British Public ........ , 389 NATURAL THEOLOGY. CHAP. I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...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 - 476 pages
...rocks, and the elementary bodies of which they are composed.f " In crossing a heath," (says Paley,) " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone" came * Buckland, Inaug. Lecture, p. 13. •J' The term simple mineral is applied not only to uncombined... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 pages
...THEOLOGY*. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a *tonc, 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. But suppose I had found a icatck upon the ground, and it should... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 pages
...argument on either side has been deduced from the study of facts. " In crossing a heath," says Paley, " suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were...came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for anything 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to... | |
 | William Paley - 1839 - 398 pages
...truth and heavenly precepts of Revelation. RL NATURAL THEOLOGY. CHAPTER I. STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. IN crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...for ever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer.* * The argument is here put very naturally. But a considerable change... | |
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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... 
