 | John Anderson - Geology - 1851 - 402 pages
...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 forever: nor...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 - 1851 - 766 pages
...; I might possibly aniwer, 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... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1853 - 172 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...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 I had before... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1857 - 442 pages
...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 forever: nor would it perhaps oe very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground,... | |
 | Robert Blakey - Caricature - 1859 - 422 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...had found a WATCH upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch hapare used to pass, any one should find a WATCH, showing the hours, minutes,... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 300 pages
...possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor woald it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of...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 I had before... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1870 - 1154 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." Nay, says the geologist ; for if the stone is a pebble its rounded form shows that it has been rolled... | |
 | W. Somerville Lach Szyrma - Apologetics - 1873 - 146 pages
...adequate cause, nor can we conceive such a thing. Take a well-known instance, given by Paley : — " 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, ' that for... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 556 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,... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1874 - 550 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,... | |
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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... 
