 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1699 - 296 pages
...Houfes of Parliament, and Clofets of Princes. Can any Credulity be comparable to this? If a Man mould affirm, that an Ape cafually meeting with Pen, Ink,...fcribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan oflihwtM fiobbs: Would an Athcift believe fuch a ftory ? and yet he can eafily digeft as incredible... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1807 - 758 pages
...he/eritHcd a pamphlet. (».) * To SCRIBBLE, vn To write wftbout care or btauty. — If a man mould afliim, that an ape Cafually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling loftribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Hobbes, would an Atheift believe fuel) a ftory... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1809 - 450 pages
...houfes of parliament, and clofets of princes. Can any credulity be comparable to this ? If a man fhould affirm, that an ape, cafually meeting with pen, ink,...And yet he can eafily digeft as incredible as that ; that the innumerable members of a human body, which, in the ftyle of the Scripture, k are all written... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an atheist believe such a story ? And yet he can easily digest as incredible as that — That the innumerable... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 762 pages
...fcribbled a pamphlet. (».) * To SCRIBBLE, -va To write without care or beauty. — If a man fhould affirm, that an ape cafually meeting with pen, ink,...paper, and falling to fcribble, did happen to write exaftly-the Leviathan of Hobbes, would an Atheift believe fuel) a ftory ? And yet he can ealily digeft... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 746 pages
...hefcribbled a pamphlet. (a.) * To SCRIBBLE, va To write without care or beauty. — If a man fhould affirm, that an ape cafually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling lofcribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Hobbes, would an Atbeift believe fuch a ftory... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling" to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an atheist believe such a story ? And yet he can easily digest as incredible as that — That the innumerable... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an Atheist believe such a story ? And yet he can easily digest as incredible as that ; that the innumerable... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1838 - 572 pages
...man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an Atheist believe such a story ? And yet he can easily digest as incredible as that ; that the innumerable... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1858 - 562 pages
...man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an Atheist believe such a story? And yet he can easily digest as incredible as that; that the innumerable... | |
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If a man should affirm, that an ape, casually meeting with pen, ink, and paper, and falling to scribble, did happen to write exactly the Leviathan of Thomas Hobbes, would an Atheist believe such a story? 
