 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 244
...natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so — that is, to affect it continually, or at stated times— as what is supernatural or miraculous does to affect it for once. And from hence it must follow that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged... | |
 | William Watson English - 1865 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, that is, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to affect it for once.' — (Anal. chap. 1 .) Mr. Stewart has acquiesced in the propriety of Dr. Clarke's... | |
 | 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 934
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so — ie, to effect it continually, or at stated times — as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for oucc."J Then, again, the• indications of design in the universe may well speak to us of a Designer,... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...once. And from hence it must follow, that persons' notions of what is natural will be enlarged, in proportion to their greater knowledge of the works... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, that is, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."* Then, again, " nature" is sometimes used to include simply the works of nature (natura naturata}. But... | |
 | 1867 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or ' miraculous does to effect it for once. And hence it must follow, ' that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged in pro' portion to their greater knowledge of the works of God, and the ' dispensations of His Providence.'... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. \ Hence it must follow, that persons' notion of what is natural, t will be enlarged in proportion to... | |
 | emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...Epistle of St. Peter (n. 1, v. 4) we find a Stoic expression, tva Beias coivavol tpvffetas. effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it at once." This is Plato's meaning (De Leg. iv.715), when he says, that God holds the beginning and... | |
 | Joseph Butler - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. Hence it must follow, that persons' notion of what is natural, will be enlarged in proportion to their... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, t. «. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous docs to effect it for once." BUTLIR : Analogy of Revealed Religion. Down, Bromley, Kent, October lei,... | |
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But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled: since what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous... 
