 | Samuel Butler - 1879 - 418 páginas
...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;...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1882 - 488 páginas
...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;...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 páginas
...there; I might possibly answer, that., for anything I knew to the comutrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. Bmut suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquuired how the watch happened... | |
 | Harvey Goodwin - 1883 - 340 páginas
...possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor \yould 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... | |
 | 1884 - 838 páginas
...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:...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... | |
 | 1884 - 842 páginas
...stone, aud 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:...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... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1888 - 518 páginas
...slonc. and were " asked how the stone came to be there, I miqht possibly answer " that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for " ever:...be very easy to show the absurdity "of this answer. But suppose 1 had found a wateh upon the "ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1898 - 412 páginas
...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;...be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer: but, suppose I had found a watch on the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch came to be... | |
 | Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 páginas
...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;...be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I found a watch upon the ground, and It should be enquired how the watch happened to be... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1911 - 702 páginas
...a stone, and were asked how the stone come to be there; I might possibly answer that for anything 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... 
