 | Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being.' ' — Ly ell's Principles of Geology, 5th ed. vol. iv. pp. 392 — 4. The mention of Baron Cuvier is... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...speculations, appear to us inconsistent with a full estimate of the relations which subsist hetween the finite powers of man and the attributes of an infinite and eternal Being." Mr. Lyell's " Principles of Geology " will now take their station as a standard work on all the great... | |
 | 918 pages
...a scheme lies within the reach of their philosophical enquiries, or even of their speculations, is inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...subsist between the finite powers of man, and the attribrtei of an infinite and eternal Being."* With such reverential feelings, they call upon their... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...climates have varied ; so it appears that the species have been changed, and yet they have all been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing...and the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being. RELATIVE AGEE OF TABLE I. Showing the Relations of the Alluvial, Aqueous, Volcanic, and Hypogene Formations... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1834 - 636 pages
...scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being."* Yet, by the exercise of faculties evidently intended for such inquiries among others, man has attained... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...and the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being. 305 APPENDIX. TABLE I. S flowing the Relations of the Alluvial, Aqueous, Volcanic, and Hypogene Formations... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...scheme, lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...and the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Being. APPENDIX. TABLE I. Showing the Relations of the Alluvial, Aqueous, Volcanic, and Hypogene Formations... | |
 | adolphus richter - 1834 - 506 pages
...scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations...the finite powers of man and the attributes of an Infmite and Eternal Being."* Yet, by the exercise of faculties evidently intended for such inquiries... | |
 | English essays - 1834 - 724 pages
...evidence of the beginning or end of BO vast a scheme lies within the track of our philosophical enquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to us inconsistent...of the relations which subsist between the finite sources of man, and the attributes of an infinite and eternal being." This appears to us to be most... | |
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To assume that the evidence of the beginning, or end, of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our speculations, appears to be inconsistent with a just estimate of the relations which subsist between the finite... 
