 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 552 pages
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...the eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Geology - 1831 - 448 pages
...both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or terinitiation of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1831 - 180 pages
...infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. //c may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1832 - 634 pages
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 468 pages
...the eye so far, both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 500 pages
...sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as fie no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
 | Francis Patrick Kenrick - Theology, Doctrinal - 1840 - 436 pages
...xü. l . (3) PS. viü. 5, (7) i Tim. vi. 15. (4) Ad Titum. iii. 4. (8) Matt. v. 6. 1 Cor. x. 31. (9) " He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning to the present system." Playfair'e Works, vokiv. p. 55. cit. a Lyell; fere saeculorum sériera effluxisse velint ex quo mundus... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1845 - 420 pages
...to imply, and the literal commentators do conceive : for unfpeakable myfteries in the Scriptures are may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the prefent fyftem at fome determinate period of time ; but we may reft affured that this great cataftrophe... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...Playfair eloquently observes, ' It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period of time ; but we may rest assured, that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by the laws... | |
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The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may... 
