 | George Ensor - 1838 - 638 Seiten
...had been made to declare that he would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...bewildering, would have been such as tended to unfit the Sncred Narrative tor its place in the providential dispensation of the world. Accordingly, in the great... | |
 | William Whewell - 1846 - 224 Seiten
...had been made to declare that he would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...world. Accordingly, in the great controversy which took pace in Galileo's time between the defenders of the then customary interpretations of Scripture, and... | |
 | 1846 - 576 Seiten
...had been made to declare that he would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...in the providential dispensation of the world."— Pp. 131-2. There was indeed one thing which it was important for man to know — the fact of creation,... | |
 | James Gray - 1849 - 244 Seiten
...had been made to declare that He would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...place in the providential dispensation of the world." Had these correct views been always entertained, how much of justly-merited discredit would they have... | |
 | John Blackburn - 1854 - 392 Seiten
...had been made to declare that he would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...the expressions, being unintelligible, startling, Hid bewildering, would have been such as tended to unfit thé Sacred narrative for its place in the... | |
 | William Henry Hoare - 1860 - 336 Seiten
...had been made to declare that lie would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...would the words have been ! And in these cases the expresT 2 CHAP, to apply. The test was applied, and the Scriptures Vm .— stood; their authority was... | |
 | Edward Garbett - 1864 - 592 Seiten
...had been made to declare that He would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...place in the providential dispensation of the world." — WHEWELL'S Indications of the Creator, p. 175. Even, beyond this, the very language and nomenclature... | |
 | John William Kirton - 1865 - 160 Seiten
...water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to his hearers would the words have been ! And, in these...then customary interpretations of Scripture, and the assertora of the Copernican system of the universe, when the innovators were upbraided with maintaining... | |
 | Daniel Moore - 1865 - 218 Seiten
...had been made to declare that He would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning to the hearers...place in the providential dispensation of the world." — Indications of the Creator, p. 176. . - < NOTE I. Page 51. • THE BEGINNINGS OF RELIGIOUS DOUBT.... | |
 | Patrick Buchan - 1868 - 276 Seiten
...had been made to declare that he would give to water the property of refracting different colours at different angles, how utterly unmeaning, to the hearers,...sacred narrative for its place in the providential dispensations of the world." The history of Geology, as a science, is very short but interesting. Earnest... | |
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... been disturbed in their thoughts, or driven to some wild and baseless imaginations by a declaration to them so strange. If the Divine Speaker, instead of saying that he would set his bow in the clouds, had been made to declare that he would give to... 
