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... illustrated 12 Physical and Organic Laws Fixity of the Natural Laws No exceptions to their operation when conditions are the same Bishop Butler on the Divine government of the world . Necessity of observation and reflection . Moral and ...
... illustrated 12 Physical and Organic Laws Fixity of the Natural Laws No exceptions to their operation when conditions are the same Bishop Butler on the Divine government of the world . Necessity of observation and reflection . Moral and ...
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... be greatest at the level of the sea , and will diminish as we ascend to any height above it . " Similar views have long been taught by philosophers and divines 14 [ CHAP . I. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . Laws of Nature illustrated.
... be greatest at the level of the sea , and will diminish as we ascend to any height above it . " Similar views have long been taught by philosophers and divines 14 [ CHAP . I. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN . Laws of Nature illustrated.
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... illustrated thus : -- A ship floats because the part of it immersed displaces a quantity of water equal in weight to its whole mass , leaving the remaining portion above the fluid . A ship , therefore , will float on the surface of the ...
... illustrated thus : -- A ship floats because the part of it immersed displaces a quantity of water equal in weight to its whole mass , leaving the remaining portion above the fluid . A ship , therefore , will float on the surface of the ...
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... illustrated . Suppose that we should see two men holding a third in a chair , and a fourth drawing a tooth from his head : --- While we contemplated this bare act , and knew nothing of the intention with which it was done and of the ...
... illustrated . Suppose that we should see two men holding a third in a chair , and a fourth drawing a tooth from his head : --- While we contemplated this bare act , and knew nothing of the intention with which it was done and of the ...
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... illustrated by explaining to the inquirer the nature and objects of the limbs , lungs , and eyes , and then by asking him if he could conceive how a being thus constituted could be benefited by obtaining access to earth , air , and ...
... illustrated by explaining to the inquirer the nature and objects of the limbs , lungs , and eyes , and then by asking him if he could conceive how a being thus constituted could be benefited by obtaining access to earth , air , and ...
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Page 15 - ... also rewards and punishes actions. If, for example, the pain which we feel, upon doing what tends to the destruction of our bodies, suppose upon too near approaches to fire, or upon wounding ourselves, be appointed by the Author of nature to prevent our doing what thus tends to our destruction, this is altogether as much an instance of his punishing our actions, and consequently of our being under his government, as declaring by a voice from heaven that if we acted so, he would inflict such pain...
Page 15 - Nature's acting upon us every moment which we feel it, or to his having at once contrived and executed his own part in the plan of the world, makes no alteration as to the matter before us.
Page 104 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth...
Page 212 - Never, perhaps, was witnessed a finer scene than on the deck of my little ship, when all hope of life had left us. Noble as the character of the British sailor is always allowed to be in cases of danger, yet I did not believe it to be possible that amongst forty-one persons not one repining word should have been uttered.