 | 1850 - 836 sider
...of mankind, should contain many truths ns yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena and the еame faculties of investigation, from which such great...possession of mankind several thousand years before." ing colony met at Branford, and each, presenting a number of volumes, said, " I give these books for... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Halifax - 1844 - 414 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were * Heb. vi. 1. s Acts iii. 21. equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand years before.... | |
 | Joseph Butler, Samuel Hallifax - 1844 - 412 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...knowledge have been made in the present and last age, were ' Heb. vi. i. * Acts iii. 21. equally in the possession of mankind, several thousand years before.... | |
 | Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education - 1844 - 608 sider
...heen so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation,...which such great discoveries in natural knowledge have heen made in the present and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years... | |
 | Peter Spencer - 1844 - 44 sider
...which seem to come into our mind by chance And possibly it might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture." — Bp. Butler. (Analogy, &c.) " Vestigiis quibusdam datur veroe lectionis conjectura." — Erasmus.... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1845 - 480 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...made in the present and last age, were equally in the possessi«n of mankind several thousand years before. And possibly it might be intended that events,... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1846 - 478 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For all the same phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it might be intended that events, as they come to pass, should open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture." 1 Butler of course... | |
 | 1847 - 602 sider
...of investigation, from which great discoveries in natural knowledge have been made in the present V and last age, were equally in the possession of mankind several thousand years before.' — Butler's Analogy, p. 212, edit. 1802. Many remarks might be offered on this very suggestive passage,... | |
 | 1847 - 566 sider
...been so long in the possession of mankind, should ' contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same ' phenomena, and the same faculties of investigation,...possibly it ' might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should ' open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.* Of this passage... | |
 | 1847 - 576 sider
...mankind several thousand years before. And possibly it ' might be intended, that events, as they come to pass, should ' open and ascertain the meaning of several parts of Scripture.' Of this passage Mr. Newman says, ' Butler, as a well known ' passage of his work shows, is far from... | |
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Nor is it at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. For, all the same phenomena and the same faculties of investigation, from which such great discoveries in natural... 
