 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...to pretend that it might arife out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature ; though being once form'd, it may continue by thofe Laws for many Ages. For while Comets move in very excentrick Orbs in all manner of Pofitions,, blind Fate- could never make all the Planets move one... | |
 | 1755 - 478 pages
...fo, it's unplilofophical tofeekforanyotherOrigin of the " World, or to pretend that it might arifeout of a Chaos by the " mere Laws of Nature ; though being once formed, it may con" tinue by thofe Laws for many Ages. For while Comets move '* in very excentric Orbs in all manner... | |
 | Samuel Vince - Gravitation - 1806 - 72 pages
...unphilpsophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of chaos, by the mere laws of nature ; though being once formed, it may continue for many ages. For while comets move in very eccentric orbits in all manner of positions, blind fate... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world,, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature ; though being once formed it may continue by those laws for many ages. For, while comets move m very excentric orbs, in all manner of positions,... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - Philosophy - 1819 - 618 pages
...it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos, by the mere laws of nature ; though being once formed it may continue by those laws for many ages. For while comets move in very eccentric orbs, in all manner of positions,... | |
 | Granville Penn - Bible and geology - 1822 - 492 pages
...is unphilosophical to seek " for any other origin of this world, or to " pretend that it might rise out of a CHAOS *' by the mere laws of Nature; though, being " once formed, it may continue by those laws " for many ages1." This is the test, to which we were to bring and apply the root of the... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1823 - 610 pages
...it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of this world, or to pretend that it might rise out of a chaos, by the mere laws of Nature ; though, being once formed, it may continue by those laws for ' many ages.'* Newton's philosophy is equally in opposition to the Huttonian doctrine... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pages
...is unphilosophical to ' seek for any other origin of this world, or to pretend that it ' might rise out of a chaos, by the mere laws of Nature ; • though, being once formed, it may continue by those laws for * many ages.'* Newton's philosophy is equally in opposition to the Huttonian doctrine... | |
 | India - 1824 - 414 pages
...it is unpbilosopbical to seek for any other origin of this world, or to pretend that it might rise out of a chaos by the mere laws of nature ; though, being once formed, it may continue by those laws for many ages.* " So much for the first result of the application of the test. " The mineral... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1826 - 586 pages
...it is uuphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos, by the mere laws of nature ; though being once formed it may continue by those laws for many ages." " God governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord of the... | |
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For it became Him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere laws of Nature; though being once formed, it may continue... 
