 | William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor \vould it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | William Paley - 1813 - 572 pages
...there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I kd found a watch upon the ground, and it ihould be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a match upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...there : I might possibly answer, thuf for any thing I knew to tiie contrary, it had luin there tor ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose 1 had found a ii-atch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened... | |
 | Charles Morey - 1824 - 212 pages
...came to be there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing that I knew, it had lain there forever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, I should hardly think of the auswer which I had before... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 324 pages
...there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch, upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 424 pages
...there : I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 440 pages
...be there ; I might possibly answer that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 pages
...there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to... | |
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In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there. I might possibly answer, that for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever: nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the... 
