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" The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we... "
Religio Medici - Page 84
by Sir Thomas Browne - 1831 - 150 pages
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1803 - 572 pages
...concludes ' that, in the ccconomy of the world, we see no marks either of a beginning or an end;' ' that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...in themselves the elements of their own destruction I' and that, ' though he may put an end, as he gave a beginning, to the present system^ at some determinate...
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Outlines of Geology: Being the Substance of a Course of Lectures Delivered ...

William Thomas Brande - Geology - 1817 - 162 pages
...conclusions, and in inanimate nature, we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves the elements of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved in unchangeable perfection, and as it were in eternal youth. If there...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

Almanacs, English - 1818 - 400 pages
...similar conclusions, and in inanimate nature we now read the same great and exalted truths; we learn that the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the ele1 Brande's Outlines of Geology, p. 20. raents of their own destruction, but that His works are preserved...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 4

John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may...
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Biographical account of Matthew Stewart. Biographical account of James ...

John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 552 pages
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may...
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The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...

John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 554 pages
...elements of their own destruction ; he has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 1

John Playfait - 1822 - 668 pages
...elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period...
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The Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature and Art, Volume 27

Arts - 1829 - 488 pages
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe,...sign by which we may estimate either their future or past duration. These phenomena, then, are all so many marks of the lapse of time, among which the principles...
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A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ...

Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...is unreasonable indeed, to suppose, that such marks should any where exist. The Author of Nature hus not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions...sign by which we may estimate either their future or past duration. These phenomena then are all so many marks of the lapse of time, among which the principles...
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Outlines of Geology

William Thomas Brande - Geology - 1829 - 266 pages
...present strata as on their road to the deep — it -allows of no exception to the law of decay. But as the Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like human institutions, carry with them the elements of their own destruction ; as he has not permitted...
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