| Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 páginas
...greatest distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars arc the centres of other like systems,... | |
| John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 páginas
...distances from each other, and thence suffer the least disturbance from their mutual attractions. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of similar systems, these,... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being," and asserting, that " to discourse of him from the appearances... | |
| Robert Ainslie - 1831 - 290 páginas
...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 páginas
...Supreme Author of the magnificence which he had been interpreting : — " This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed stars are centres of other like systems, these... | |
| American Philosophical Society - 1880 - 726 páginas
...Although timidity has hitherto greatly blocked the way against such interpretation, we have reason for congratulation in the unconscious shaping of physical...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable... | |
| Robert Hare - 1855 - 556 páginas
...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... | |
| 1861 - 734 páginas
...a twofold jioint of view. When Newton says, in the general scholium at the end of the Principia, " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being," he gives utterance to an inference as truly logical and as truly... | |
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