| James Hutton - 1788 - 110 páginas
...But with fuch wifdom has nature ordered things in the oeconomy of this world, that the deftruction of one continent is not brought about without the...in thofe operations, as well as the fuftenance of thofe living beings is the proper end in view. THUS, in underftanding the proper conftitution of the... | |
| 1797 - 618 páginas
...But with fuch wifdotn has nature ordered things in the economy of this world, that the dtftruftion of one continent is not brought about without the...of another ; and the animal and vegetable bodies, lor which the world above the furface of the fea is levelled with its bottom, are among the means employed... | |
| Horace Bolingbroke Woodward - 1911 - 234 páginas
...any preternatural cause, in explaining that which actually appears." As he observed, "the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the...renovation of the earth in the production of another." Rivers in flood and storms upon the coast were cited as witnesses of destruction — that "the land... | |
| David Pepper, Frank Webster, George Revill - 2003 - 612 páginas
...benign 'with such wisdom has nature ordered things in the oeconomy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the renovation of the earth in the production of another'.6 We are in that reahn of physicotheology associated with the line from John Ray's The Wisdom... | |
| Stephen Baxter - 2004 - 264 páginas
...But with such wisdom has nature ordered things in the oeconomy of this world, that the destruction of one continent is not brought about without the...renovation of the Earth in the production of another.' This was intended for the preservation of life through the creation of soil: 'A soil, adapted to the... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1788 - 678 páginas
...But with fuch wifdom has nature ordered things in the ceconomy of this world, that the deftruction of one continent is not brought about without the...in thofe operations, as well as the fuftenance of thofe living beings is the proper end in view. THUS, in underftancling the proper conftitution of the... | |
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