 ... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker; that there must have existed, at some tune, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer; who...  The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 9001807Full view - About this book
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...subject, tu perceive and understand it ; but being once, as we have aaid, observed and understood), fhe inference, we think, is inevitable ; that the watch...existed, at some time and at some place or other, an artificci or artificers ; who formed it for the purpose which we find it actunlly to answer; who comprehended... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1014 pages
...mechanism being observed, (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand it; but being once, as we hare said, observed and understood,) the inference we think is inevitable ; that the watch must have... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1807 - 1004 pages
...mechanism being observed, (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some preyious knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand it; but being once, as we hare said, observed and understood,) the inference we think is inevitable ; that the watch must have... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1824 - 324 pages
...mechanism being observed (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previ-. ous knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand...some time and at some place or other, an artificer pr artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...mechanism beingv observed (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous they liked her, and often looked он the figure she made in her own eome pjace or other, an artificer or artificers who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually... | |
 | Charles Morey - Bible - 1824 - 212 pages
...or none that would have answered the use that is now ssrved by it.— This mechanism being observed, the inference we think is inevitable, that the watch...must have had a maker ; that there must have existed an artificer, who formed it for the purpose, which we find it actually to answer, who comprehended... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...mechanism being observed, (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand...it; but being once, as we have said, observed and umlerstooa,) the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker ; that there... | |
 | William Paley - Natural theology - 1826 - 628 pages
...mechanism being observed (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps some previous knowledge of the subject, to perceive and understand...inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker: that there 7 The balance verge and balance or pendulum spring, which regulates the whole machine. * The cannon... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...mechanism l»inff observed (it requires indeed an examination of the instrument, and perhaps sonic previous e Peter and Paul were preaching the Gospel at thut the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place... | |
 | Richard Watson - Apologetics - 1831 - 458 pages
...and applied by Paley to refute the leading atheistic theories. "The mechanism of the watch being once observed and understood, the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must bave had a maker; that there must have existed, at nome time and at some place or other, an artificer... | |
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