 | John Playfair - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or terinitiation of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 180
...infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. //c may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...the eye so far, both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as fie no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...xü. l . (3) PS. viü. 5, (7) i Tim. vi. 15. (4) Ad Titum. iii. 4. (8) Matt. v. 6. 1 Cor. x. 31. (9) " He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning to the present system." Playfair'e Works, vokiv. p. 55. cit. a Lyell; fere saeculorum sériera effluxisse velint ex quo mundus... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...to imply, and the literal commentators do conceive : for unfpeakable myfteries in the Scriptures are may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the prefent fyftem at fome determinate period of time ; but we may reft affured that this great cataftrophe... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...Playfair eloquently observes, ' It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
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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 may... 
