 | 1849 - 604 pages
...rashly to suppose that we have arrived at the true meaning of the whole of that book. ' It is not at nil incredible that a book which has been so long ' in...possession of mankind, should contain many truths as ' yet undiscerned. For all the same phenomena and the same ' faculties of investigation, from which such... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1804 - 462 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is jt at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, *Heb. vi. 1. f Actsiii. 21.. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1813 - 496 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, ' ' - . '/••''• * Heb. vi. 1. f Acts iii. 21. 1 4 that events, as they come to pass, should open... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1820 - 264 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in...should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, alt the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from •which such great discoveries... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 478 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, * Heb. vi. I. f Acts iii. 21. that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1824 - 484 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural knoweldge have been made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind, several... | |
 | Thomas Robert Malthus - Economics - 1836 - 520 pages
...hints as it were dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seemed to come into our minds by chance. For all the same phenomena, and the same faculties...possession of mankind several thousand years before," The latter years of his life were passed with little variety in the society of his family and friends,... | |
 | Renn Dickson Hampden - Philosophy and religion - 1837 - 652 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which " seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all " incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...should contain many Truths as yet " undiscovered."' Now, whether with Butler we apply the term Discovery, or not, to the results of an increased acquaintance... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Analogy (Religion) - 1839 - 362 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...made in the present and last age, were equally in the po*. session of mankind several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended, that events,... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - Sermons, English - 1844 - 414 pages
...dropped us by nature accidentally, or which seem to come into our minds by chance. Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in...knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were * Heb. vi. 1. s Acts iii. 21. equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand years before.... | |
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Nor is it at all incredible, that a book, which has been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural... 
