 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807
...the smallest approach, 3 N 4 , w« 920 \fe obserre not the smallest tendency towards self support. There is no difference in this respect, (yet there...another, between one that is finite, and one that is indefinite. This very inuch resemblts tii • ii>!i before us. The machine, •which we are inspecting... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807
...not the smallest approach, 3 N 4- we vt- observe not the smallest ten. Aeney towards self support. There is no difference in this respect, (yet there...another, between one that is finite, and one that is indefinite. This very much resembles the case before us. The machine, which we are inspecting demonstrates,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807
...not the smallest approach, 3 N 4 " w« 920 we observe not the smallest tendency towards self support. There is no difference in this respect, (yet there...chain and another, between one that is finite, and one (hut is indefinite. This very much resembles the case before us. The machine, which we are inspecting... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814
...v, e make nit the smallest approach, we observe not the smallest tendency, toward* •ell-support. There is no difference in this respect (yet there...a great difference in several respects) between a cliain of a greater or less length, between one chain and another, between one that is finite and one... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814
...increasing the number of links, from ten for instance to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, &c. we make not the smallest approach, we observe not the smallest tendency, towards •elf-support. There is no difference in this respect (yet there may be a great difference in several... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816
...increasing the number of links, from ten for instance to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, &c. we make not the smallest approach, we observe not...respects) between a chain of a greater or less length, bet ween one chain and another, between one that is finite and one that is infinite. This very much... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 292 pages
...increasing the number of links, from ten for instance to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, Sec. we make not the smallest approach, we observe not the smallest tendency, towards s If sunnort. There is no difference in this respect. (yet there may be a grvat difference in several... | |
 | William Paley - 1824
...increasing the number of links, from ten for instance to a hundred, from a hundred to a thousand, dec. we make not the smallest approach, we observe not...one chain and another, between one that is finite *nd one that is infinite. This very much resembles the case before us. The mach'ine which we are inspecting... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 788 pages
...from a hundred to a thousand, &c. we make not M 2 the smallest approach, we observe not the »mallest tendency, towards self-support. There is no difference...respect (yet there may be a great difference in several respect?) between a chain of a greater or lees length, between one chain and another, between one that... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1824 - 394 pages
...&c. we make not the smallest approach, we observe not the smallest tendency, towards self-surport. There is no difference in this respect (yet there...be a great difference in several respects) between & chain of a greater or less length, between one chain and another, between one that is finite and... | |
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... an infinite number of links, can no more support itself, than a chain composed of a finite number of links. And of this we are assured (though we never can have tried the experiment,) because, by increasing the number of links, from ten for instance... 
