The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation: In Two Parts. Viz. The Heavenly Bodies, Elements, Meteors, Fossils, Vegetables, Animals (beasts, Birds, Fishes, and Insects), More Particularly in the Body of the Earth, Its Figure, Motion, and Consistency, and in the Admirable Structure of the Bodies of Man and Other Animals, as Also in Their Generation, &c. : with Answers to Some Objections |
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... seem to be , but are variously and diforderly fituate , fome nearer , fome further off , just like Trees in a Wood or Foreft , as Gaffendus ex- emplifies them . And as in a Wood , tho ' the Trees grow never fo irregularly , yet the Eye ...
... seem to be , but are variously and diforderly fituate , fome nearer , fome further off , just like Trees in a Wood or Foreft , as Gaffendus ex- emplifies them . And as in a Wood , tho ' the Trees grow never fo irregularly , yet the Eye ...
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... seems to me false , and of evil Confequence , as being derogatory from the Glory of God , and deftructive of the Acknowledgment and Belief of a Deity . For firft , Seeing ( for Inftance ) that the Eye is employ'd by Man and all Animals ...
... seems to me false , and of evil Confequence , as being derogatory from the Glory of God , and deftructive of the Acknowledgment and Belief of a Deity . For firft , Seeing ( for Inftance ) that the Eye is employ'd by Man and all Animals ...
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... seems probable , because it is not under the Command of the Will ; nor are we conscious of any power to cause , or to restrain it , but it is carried on and continued without our Know- Knowledge , or Notice ; neither can it be caufed 46 ...
... seems probable , because it is not under the Command of the Will ; nor are we conscious of any power to cause , or to restrain it , but it is carried on and continued without our Know- Knowledge , or Notice ; neither can it be caufed 46 ...
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... seem to be a vain and idle Pomp , or tri- fling Formality , if the Agent were omnipotent . Fourthly , Those aμaρThμara , as Ariftotle calls . them , thofe Errors and Bungles which were com- mitted when the Matter is inept , or ...
... seem to be a vain and idle Pomp , or tri- fling Formality , if the Agent were omnipotent . Fourthly , Those aμaρThμara , as Ariftotle calls . them , thofe Errors and Bungles which were com- mitted when the Matter is inept , or ...
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... seem fuch rude , bungling , and de- " form'd Work , as if they had been done with a " Mattock , or Trowel ; fo vaft a Difference is " there betwixt the Skill of Nature , and the " Rudeness and Imperfection of Art . I might add , that ...
... seem fuch rude , bungling , and de- " form'd Work , as if they had been done with a " Mattock , or Trowel ; fo vaft a Difference is " there betwixt the Skill of Nature , and the " Rudeness and Imperfection of Art . I might add , that ...
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