 | 1803 - 572 pages
...absurdity of tin's answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, ai:d it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before giten, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why... | |
 | 1807 - 1012 pages
...absurdity of tins answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1004 pages
...absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Vet why... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1014 pages
...absurdity of this answer. But suppose I bad found a watch upon (lit; ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer •which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might пате always been there.... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet,... | |
 | 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...in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why... | |
 | William Paley - 1813 - 572 pages
...stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever:...in that place ; I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet why... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 pages
...alwtirdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Yet,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 558 pages
...absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a roa»cA upon the ground, and it should be enquired how the watch happened to be in that place, I should hardly think of the answer which I had before given, that, fnr aj>y thing I knew, the watch might have always been there. Vet,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...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 be in that place ; I should hardly tok of the answer which I had before given, that, for any thing I knew, the wtch might hare always... | |
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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 be in that place; I should... 
