 | 1803 - 818 pages
...watch before ue to have been produced 1'rom another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely. Contrivance is still unaccounted for. We still want...supplied by this supposition, nor dispensed with." (p. 13.) " The conclusion which the ./># examination of the watch, of its works, construction, and... | |
 | History - 1807 - 1012 pages
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing the watch before" us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....difficulty were diminished the further we went back indefinitely, we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to which this sort of reasoning applies.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing th^ watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....degree of satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is stifl unaccounted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied by this supposition,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1014 pages
...running the difficulty further back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....brings us no nearer to the least degree of satisfaction upoa the subject. Contrivance is still unaccounted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind... | |
 | William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...running the difficulty farther back, ze by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....diminished the further we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to which this sort of reasoning applies.... | |
 | William Paley - Natural theology - 1813 - 572 pages
...running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....dispensed with. If the difficulty were diminished the farther we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...auuse, imply the -presence of intelligence and mind. No one, therefore, can rationally believe, tliat the insensible, inanimate watch, from which the watch...satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is still unac. counted for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied by Oils supposition,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...by -.'.ippoiing ilie watch before us to have been produced by another watch, that from -; foniif-r, and so on indefinitely. Our going back ever so far...satisfaction upon the subject. Contrivance is still unact 'junteil for. We still want a contriver. A designing mind is neither supplied !»» this supposition,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on indefinitely....dispensed with. If the difficulty were diminished the farther we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is the only case to... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...these properties, therefore, are as much unaccounted for as they were before. IV. Nor is any thing gained by running the difficulty further back, ie...supposition. nor dispensed with. If the difficulty was diminished the further we went back, by going back indefinitely we might exhaust it. And this is... | |
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Nor is any thing gained by running the difficulty farther back, ie by supposing the watch before us to have been produced from another watch, that from a former, and so on >indefinitely. Our going back ever so far, brings us no nearer to the least degree... 
