 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...short of a communication of omniscience could such a revelation have stopped, without imperfections similar in kind to that which they impute to the existing...was known to Copernicus would have seemed imperfect after'the discoveries of Newton; and a revelation of the science of Newton would have appeared defective... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 pages
...short of a communication of omniscience could such a revelation have stopped, without imperfections similar in kind to that which they impute to the existing...was known to Copernicus would have seemed imperfect after'the discoveries of Newton ; and a revelation of the science of Newton would have appeared defective... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pages
...foreign to the objects of a volume intended only to be a guide of religious belief and moral conduct. ' We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical...revelation might have stopped, without imperfections, or omissions less in degree, but similar in kind, to that which they impute to the existing narrative... | |
 | William Buckland - 1837 - 476 pages
...foreign to the objects of a volume intended only to be a guide of religious belief and moral conduct. We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical science a fit subject for revelation, what point th y can imagine short of a communication of Omniscience, at which such a revelation might have stopped,... | |
 | 1837 - 770 pages
...short of a communication of Omniscience, could such a revelation have stopped, without imperfections similar in kind to that which they impute to the existing narrative of Moses." After all efforts to arrest the progress of Phrenology by denouncing it as at variance with Scripture,... | |
 | 1839 - 272 pages
...foreign to the objects of a volume intended only to be a guide of religious belie/ and moral conduct We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical science a fit subject for revelation, where revelation might have stopped, without imperfections of omission, less in degree, but similar... | |
 | William Sidney Gibson - 1840 - 328 pages
...intended only to be a guide of religious belief and moral conduct. " We may," continues the Professor, " fairly ask of those persons who consider physical...revelation might have stopped, without imperfections or omissions, less in degree, but similar in kind, to those which they impute to the existing narrative... | |
 | William Buckland - 1841 - 488 pages
...foreign to the objects of a volume intended only to be a guide of religious belief and moral conduct. We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical...which they impute to the existing narrative of Moses 1 A revelation of so much only of astronomy, as was known to Copernicus, would have seemed imperfect... | |
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 310 pages
...foreign to the objects of a volume intended only to be a guide of religious belief and moral conduct. We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical...but similar in kind, to that which they impute to Moses ? A revelation of so much only of astronomy as was known to Copernicus, would have seemed imperfect... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1860 - 530 pages
...that he gave an account true so far as it went, though imperfect. " We may fairly nsk," he argues, " of those persons who consider physical science a fit...revelation, what point they can imagine, short of n communication of Omniscience, at which such a revelation might have stopped without imperfections... | |
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We may fairly ask of those persons who consider physical science a fit subject for revelation, what point they can imagine short of a communication of Omniscience, at which such a revelation might have stopped, without imperfections of omission, less... 
