 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 show the...  The Modern Review - Page 6571884Full view - About this book
 | 1808 - 500 pages
...and were afked how the ftone caroe to be there, I might poflibly anfwer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very eafy to mew the abfurdity of this anfwer. But fuppote I had found a watch upon the ground, and ir mould... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of tin's answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, ai:d it should... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...thing I knew to the contrary, it had Iain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | History - 1807 - 1012 pages
...and were asked how the stone came to be there, 1 might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of tins answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1014 pages
...ind were asked how the stone came to be there, 1 might possibly answer, that, for any ihini; I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be тегу ea>y to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I bad found a watch upon (lit; ground,... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...the contrary, it had lain there lor ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to shew the alwtirdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...stone came to be there, I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it hid lain there for ever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a roa»cA upon the ground, and it should... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...and were asked low the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor...to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I kd found a watch upon the ground, and it ihould be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might possibly answer that, for any thing I knew to the contrary-, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be... | |
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