| 1843 - 832 pagina’s
...the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one, for instance, of the many firmameuU into which sidereal astronomy now divides the universe,...another at random, without any fixed law ; nor can any thing in our experienoe, or in our mental nature, constitute a sufficient, or indeed any, reason... | |
| 1843 - 1380 pagina’s
...entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...another at random, without any fixed law ; nor can any thing in our experience, or in pur mental nature, constitute a sufficient, or indeed any, reason... | |
| Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - 1848 - 162 pagina’s
...entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...succeed one another at random, without any fixed law." After this it appears to me not a little astonishing that the idea of events anterior to the series... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 pagina’s
...the two forming a constant sequence, yet, for aught we know, " in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...succeed one another at random, without any fixed law." Against skepticism so extravagant as this, it is only necessary to adduce the fact of which I reminded... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1849 - 526 pagina’s
...the two forming a constant sequence, yet, for aught we know, " in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...succeed one another at random, without any fixed law." Against skepticism so extravagant as this, it is only necessary to adduce the fact of which I reminded... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 pagina’s
...the two forming a constant sequence, yet, for aught we know, " in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...succeed one another at random, without any fixed law." Confviatio» of tAis theory. — Against skepticism. so fe'xAxw *r 8 gant as this, it is only necessary... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 pagina’s
...to entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one for instance of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...reason for believing that this is nowhere the case. Were we to suppose (what is perfectly possible to imagine) that the present order of the universe were... | |
| Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 510 pagina’s
...entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...another at random, without any fixed law ; nor can any thing in our experience or in our mental nature constitute a sufficient, or indeed any reason for... | |
| James McCosh - 1860 - 512 pagina’s
...entertain the notion, find no difficulty in conceiving that in some one, for instance, of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides...sufficient or indeed any reason for believing that this is form, and that like may be expected in like circumstances, are the result, not of any fundamental principle... | |
| James McCosh - 1863 - 588 pagina’s
...B. iii. c. xxi. § 1,) that he can " find no difficulty in conceiving, that in some one of the many firmaments into which sidereal astronomy now divides the universe, events may succeed one acother at random without any fixed law. Nor can any thing in our experience, or in our mental nature,... | |
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