 Nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and return...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 462by Dugald Stewart - 1814Full view - About this book
 | 1827 - 698 pages
...design seemed • more probable, than that, since the blood could not well, because ' of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it ( should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way.' It is not, indeed, to be wondered at, that the structure of the body should turn men's thoughts towards... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1807 - 464 pages
...than that since the blood could not ** well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veli/i to the " limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and return through " tUe veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way *." — • Thus the consideration of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Ethics - 1818 - 346 pages
...design seemed more probable, " than that, since the blood could not well, " because of the interposing valves, be sent " by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its " course that way." 284. An explanation of the use and abuse of the speculation concerning Final Causes, in the study of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 348 pages
...design ' seemed more probable, than that, since the blood could not well, 1 because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the ' limbs, it should...in which the same effect is produced in different combinations of circumstances, by different means ; — when we compare, for example, the circulation... | |
 | William Wadd - Directories - 1824 - 288 pages
...no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way." The reason here ascribed to Harvey seems now so very natural and obvious, that some have been disposed... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...design seemed more probable, than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way." * * Boyle's Works, Vol. IV. p. 5S9 Folio ed. See Outlines of Moral Philosophy, p. 185. (Edin. 1793.)... | |
 | Theology - 1836 - 708 pages
...no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way." On the principle, that "nature" was "a provident cause," and did not act without " design," Harvey... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 662 pages
...no design seemed more probable than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way." * In general, it may be observed that those philosophers who have been most successful in detecting... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...; adding, that "Prtrvidenco meant to reserve it for him, and would not let men see what was beThis perception of design and contrivance is more peculiarly...in which the same effect is produced, in different combinations of circumstances, by different means : — when we compare, for example, the circulation... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...design appeared more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should...whose valves did not oppose its course that way. This fact, however, and others which might be mentioned in illustration of this subject, were not known... | |
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