 | 1803 - 572 páginas
...ttont, 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 574 páginas
...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:...be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a zratch upon the ground, and it should be inquired bow the watch happened... | |
 | William Paley - 1813 - 572 páginas
...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:...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... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 páginas
...stme, 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 alwurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a vintch up. on the ground, and it should... | |
 | Charles Mayo - 1824 - 248 páginas
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...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 lo show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 páginas
...there : I might possibly answer, thuf for any thing I knew to tiie contrary, it had luin there tor ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose 1 had found a ii-atch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened... | |
 | Charles Morey - 1824 - 212 páginas
...came to be there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing that I knew, it had lain there forever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 424 páginas
...came to be there : I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had Iain 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1826 - 628 páginas
...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:...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... | |
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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 many and various, and fraught... 
