| Isaac Newton - 1729 - 546 pages
...attractions. This moft beautiful Syftem of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counfel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed Stars are the centers of otber like fyftems, thefe being form'd by the like wife counfel> muft be all fubied to the... | |
| Thomas Gent - 1734 - 288 pages
...attractions. This moft beautiful Syitem of the Sun, Planets and Comets, could only proceed from the counfel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And If the fixed Stars are the centers of other like fyflems, thefe being form'd by the like wile counfel, muft be all fubjcñ to... | |
| 1758 - 194 pages
...Attractions. This moft beautiful SYSTEM of the Una, Planets, and Comets, could only proceed from the C0w»/i/ and Dominion of an INTELLIGENT and POWERFUL BEING. And if the fixed Stars are the Centers of other like Syfttmi, thefe, being formed by the like toije Couitfel, muft be all fubjeft... | |
| William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker - 1791 - 650 pages
...himfelf. This moft beautiful fyftem of the fun, planets, and comets, could only arife from the counfel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed ftars be centers of fimilar fyftems, tbefe being all formed by like wifdom, muft be fubject to the... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1803 - 410 pages
...attractions. This moft beautiful fyftem of the fun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counfel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed ftars are the centres of other like fyftems, thefe, being formed by the like wife counfel, muft be... | |
| Thomas Green Fessenden - 1805 - 244 pages
...elegant frame of things could not have arisen, unless by the contrivance and the direction of a wise and powerful being ; and if the fixed stars are the centres of systems, these systems must be similar ; and all these constructed according to the same plan, .am... | |
| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...beautiful system' of the sun, planets, ajid comet»,, could, only NEW ( 584 ) NEW -arise from »he counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars be centres of similar systems, these being all formed by like wisdom, must be subject to the dominion... | |
| Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 pages
...planets, and with great rapidity ; and in their aphelions, where they move the slowest, and are detained the longest, they recede to the greatest distances...intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars arc the centres of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only arise from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars be... | |
| Robert Waln - 1826 - 108 pages
...elegant frame of things could not have arisen, unless by " the contrivance and direction of a wise and powerful being: " and if the fixed stars are the centres of systems, these systems •• must be similar; and all these, constructed according to the " same plan,... | |
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