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... conceived that any light which could impart the least additional evidence to the most important of all natural truths , would be willingly lent by their distinguished au- thors . He has , therefore , quoted generally from Drs . Crombie ...
... conceived that any light which could impart the least additional evidence to the most important of all natural truths , would be willingly lent by their distinguished au- thors . He has , therefore , quoted generally from Drs . Crombie ...
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... conceive a principle of production but what is included in one or other of these . That chance should ever have been alleged by a rational being as a principle from which a system of the most exquisite order originated , is strange ...
... conceive a principle of production but what is included in one or other of these . That chance should ever have been alleged by a rational being as a principle from which a system of the most exquisite order originated , is strange ...
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... conceived . causes . It would be useless and tedious to dwell upon all the various atheistic hypotheses of physical The most consistent of them may be briefly described , as thus co - operating to form the whole system . It would ...
... conceived . causes . It would be useless and tedious to dwell upon all the various atheistic hypotheses of physical The most consistent of them may be briefly described , as thus co - operating to form the whole system . It would ...
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... conceived that all the primary motions of a system so pro- duced would be nearly circular , nearly in the plane of the original equator ; and in the direc- tion of the solar rotation . Reasons are offered also to shew that the motions ...
... conceived that all the primary motions of a system so pro- duced would be nearly circular , nearly in the plane of the original equator ; and in the direc- tion of the solar rotation . Reasons are offered also to shew that the motions ...
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... conceive , on a firm basis , not to be shaken by any addition to our knowledge of the operations of nature . We may not be able to bring counter evidence to all the alleged phenomena , but we may divest any such phenomena , should they ...
... conceive , on a firm basis , not to be shaken by any addition to our knowledge of the operations of nature . We may not be able to bring counter evidence to all the alleged phenomena , but we may divest any such phenomena , should they ...
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