 | Robert Waln - Society of Friends - 1826 - 108 pages
...elegant frame of things could not have arisen, unless by " the contrivance and direction of a wise and powerful being: " and if the fixed stars are the centres of systems, these systems •• must be similar; and all these, constructed according to the " same plan,... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only arise from the counsel and dominion of a powerful and intelligent Being. And if the fixed stars be... | |
 | 1830 - 854 pages
...at the close of his account of that part of the material universe to which our world belongs, that " this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being," and asserting, that " to discourse of him from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to natural... | |
 | Robert Ainslie - Apologetics - 1831 - 290 pages
...in treating of evidence the most important in existence. ESSAY I. EVIDENCES OF NATURAL RELIGION. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from THE COUNSEL AND DOMINION OP AN INTELLIGENT, POWERFUL BEING). This Being GOvERNS ALL THINGS, not as the soul of the world, but... | |
 | James Martineau - Authority - 1836 - 500 pages
...Supreme Author of the magnificence which he had been interpreting : — " This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from...intelligent and powerful being. And if the fixed stars are centres of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel, must all be subject to... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Electronic journals - 1880 - 726 pages
...shaping of physical theories by spiritual intuitions. Newton, near the close of his Principia, says: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, should, without... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Learned institutions and societies - 1880
...shaping of physical theories by spiritual intuitions. Newton, ,near the close of his Principia, says: "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion ot an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable... | |
 | Robert Hare - Spiritualism - 1855 - 484 pages
...presence to himself. 1220. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only arise from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being; and if the fixed stars be centres of similar systems, these, being all formed by like wisdom, must be subject to the dominion... | |
 | Robert Hare - Bible and spiritualism - 1855 - 556 pages
...thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. 1220. " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only arise from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being; and if the fixed stars be... | |
 | Geology - 1861 - 388 pages
...in a twofold point of view. When Newton says, in the general scholium at the end of the Principia, " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being," he gives utterance to an inference as truly logical and as truly scientific as any to be found in his... | |
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This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. 
