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... in the same place with rays proceeding from objects situated at a much greater distance , and which rays arrive at ... carried farther back when the rays proceed from a near object , than when they are sent from one that is remote .
... in the same place with rays proceeding from objects situated at a much greater distance , and which rays arrive at ... carried farther back when the rays proceed from a near object , than when they are sent from one that is remote .
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Things are not indifferent to this sense ; all objects do not suit it ; many which we see , are agreeable to it ; many others disagreeable . It is certainly not the effect of habit upon the particular object , because the most agreeable ...
Things are not indifferent to this sense ; all objects do not suit it ; many which we see , are agreeable to it ; many others disagreeable . It is certainly not the effect of habit upon the particular object , because the most agreeable ...
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I allege these as two felicities , for they are different things , yet both necessary : the sense being formed , the objects , which were applied to it , might not have suited it ; the objects being fixed , the sense might not have ...
I allege these as two felicities , for they are different things , yet both necessary : the sense being formed , the objects , which were applied to it , might not have suited it ; the objects being fixed , the sense might not have ...
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Contents
State of the argument | 1 |
Application of the argument | 7 |
Application of the argument continued | 21 |
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| Title | Natural theology ; Horæ Paulinæ ; Clergyman's companion ; and sermons Volume 2 of The Works of William Paley: Complete in Two Volumes, William Paley |
| Author | William Paley |
| Publisher | Henry Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1928 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 20 Jun 2006 |
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