 | 1803 - 572 Seiten
...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 should not this... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1807 - 1004 Seiten
...thing I knew to the contrary, it had Iain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the 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... | |
 | 1807 - 1012 Seiten
...contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 Seiten
...thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to shew the 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... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1814 - 554 Seiten
...the contrary, it had lain there lor ever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to shew the 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 Seiten
...possibly answer, that, for any thing 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 kd found a watch upon the ground, and it ihould be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 Seiten
...possibly answer, that, for any thing 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 match upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I should... | |
 | Charles Morey - 1824 - 212 Seiten
...there, I might possibly answer, that for any thing that I knew, it had lain there forever ; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of...answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, I should hardly think of the auswer which I had before given, that for any thing I knew the watch might... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 Seiten
...possibly answer, thuf for any thing I knew to tiie contrary, it had luin there tor ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose 1 had found a ii-atch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to he in thai... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 406 Seiten
...might possibly answer, that for any thing 1 knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this...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... | |
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In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the... 
