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" ... builder because this is precisely that species of effect which we have experienced to proceed from that species of cause. But surely you will not affirm that the universe bears such a resemblance to a house that we can with the same certainty infer... "
Theism, a treatise on God, providence and immortality - Page 95
by John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857
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The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...

David Hume - 1826 - 584 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider. It would surely be very ill received, replied Cleanthes ; and I should be deservedly blamed...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 64

1837 - 568 pages
...similar cause, or that the analogy ' is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so -striking, 1 that the utmost you can here pretend to is a guess, a conjec4 ture, a presumption concerning a similar cause, and how that 4 pretension will be received...
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On natural theology

Thomas Chalmers - 1840 - 412 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world I leave you to consider." " When two species of objects have always been observed to be conjoined together, I can...
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On Natural Theology, Volume 1

Thomas Chalmers - 1850 - 416 pages
...to a housa, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world I leave you to consider."- " When two species of objects have always been observed to be conjoined together, I can...
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Philosophical Works of David Hume, Volume 2

David Hume - 1854 - 568 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...that the utmost you can here pretend to is a guess, ia conjecture, a presumption concerningji similar cause _; and how that pretension will be received...
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Philosophical Works of David Hume, Volume 2

David Hume - 1854 - 572 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking, that the utmost you can here pretend to is a gue>s. a conjecture, a presumption concerning a similar cause ; and how that pretension will be received...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 2

David Hume - 1874 - 544 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider. It would surely be very ill received, replied CLEANTHES ; and I should be deservedly blamed...
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The Deity

William Cooke - 1877 - 574 pages
...to a house, that we can, with the same certainty, infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider." Again, he asks : " Can you pretend to show any such similarity between the fabric of a house...
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A Treatise on Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 2

David Hume - 1882 - 524 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider. It would surely be very ill received, replied CLEANTHES ; and I should be deservedly blamed...
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the ..., Volume 2

David Hume - 1898 - 534 pages
...to a house, that we can with the same certainty infer a similar cause, or that the analogy is here entire and perfect. The dissimilitude is so striking,...pretension will be received in the world, I leave you to consider. It would surely be very ill received, replied CLEANTHES ; and I should be deservedly blamed...
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