 | William Paley - 1836 - 440 pages
...instead of innumerable gradations of shades. CHAPTER XXII. ASTRONOMY.* MY opinion of Astronomy has always been that it is not the best medium through which...intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shows, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. The mind which is once convinced,... | |
 | William Paley - 1837 - 428 pages
...of light is, when received from the sun. CHAP. XXII. ASTRONOMY.* MY opinion of Astronomy has always been, that it is not the best medium through which...intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shows, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. The mind which is once convinced,... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 976 pages
...light is, when received from the sun*. CHAPTER XXII. ASTRONOMY*. MY opinion of Astronomy has always been, that it is not the best medium through which...of the Deity than any other subject affords ; but it is not so well adapted, as some other subjects are, to the purpose of argument. We are destitute... | |
 | William Paley - 1838 - 586 pages
...light is, when received from the sun. CHAPTER XXII. ASTRONOMY1. MY opinion of astronomy has always been that it is not the best medium through which...intelligent Creator : but that, this being proved, it shows, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. The mind which is once convinced,... | |
 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 pages
...which we have just made. He admits that it has always been his opinion with regard to astronomy, " that it is not the best medium through which to prove...intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shows beyond all other sciences the magnificence of his operations." Paley's work has had a very extensive... | |
 | Henry Fergus - 1838 - 332 pages
...consummate wisdom, and great goodness. " My opinion of astronomy has always been," says Dr. Paley, " that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator." The opinion is not without some foundation. But I must acknowledge, that no part of Dr. Paley's masterly... | |
 | Henry Fergus - 1838 - 332 pages
...consummate wisdom, and great goodness. " My opinion of astronomy has always been," says Dr. Paley, " that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator." The opinion is not without some foundation. But I must acknowledge, that no part of Dr. Paley's masterly... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1840 - 412 pages
...room for the supposition that their combination might have been fortuitous — and hence astronomy is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator — although in the language of Dr. Paley if this can be proved by other means, it shows beyond all... | |
 | William Paley - 1843 - 400 pages
...sun. CHAPTER XXII. ASTRONOMY.1 MY opinion of astronomy has always been, that it is nut the best medinm through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shows, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. The mind which is once convinced,... | |
 | Frances Barbara Burton - 1845 - 194 pages
...celebrity should assert, towards the conclusion of his valuable work " Natural Theology,"* that " astronomy is NOT the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator;—the heavenly bodies," he says, " from remoteness and the simplicity of their appearance,... | |
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MY opinion of Astronomy has always been, that it is not the best medium through which to prove the agency of an intelligent Creator ; but that, this being proved, it shews, beyond all other sciences, the magnificence of his operations. 
