 | William Buckland - Bible And Geology - 1837 - 646 pages
...; 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 show the absurdity of this answer."* Nay says the Geologist, for if the stone were a pebble, the adventures of this pebble may have been... | |
 | George Ensor - Bridgewater treatises on the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation - 1838 - 638 pages
...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 show the absurdity...had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | William Paley - Clergy - 1838 - 586 pages
...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 inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | William Paley - Apologetics - 1839 - 398 pages
...globe he inhabits, myriads of ages ago, before his species became its denizens." — ENG. ED. i. 5 ii. 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 hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 758 pages
...; 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 show the absurdity...had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 544 pages
...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." Now what is it that determines our immediate rejection of a proposition, which, as Paley truly intimates,... | |
 | 1845 - 672 pages
...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 show the absurdity of this answer. IJut suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1848 - 536 pages
...there, [ 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." At the present day, to most geologists the stone on the heath would tell its own simple story. If its... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1849 - 306 pages
...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...I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should bo inquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1850 - 628 pages
...: T 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 show the absurdity...had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place : 1 should hardly think of the answer which I had... | |
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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... 
