 | 1722 - Страниц: 494
...by Mofts, Pfalm XC. jo. is manifeftly an Appointment of the fame infinite Lord whorules the World. By this Means the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too fullj nor too empty. For if the Generality of Men were to live now to Methufalah's Age of 969 Years,... | |
 | William Derham - 1786 - Страниц: 482
...Donington in Shropfhire, every fixth foul was fixty yeari of age, or upwards. Phil. Tranf. No. 310. And Pfal. xc. 10. this, I fay,) is manifeftly an appointment...this means, the peopled world is kept at a convenient flay ; neither too full nor too empty. For if men (the generality of them, I mean) were to live now... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1807 - Страниц: 852
...the lessening of the common age of man to 70 or 80 years was a wise appointment, by means of which, the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay, neither too full nor too empty. Whereas, if the generality of .men were to live to the age of Methuselah, every countrywould soon be... | |
 | David Collyer - 1815 - Страниц: 420
...man was lessened to seventy or eighty years ; which is manifestly an appointment of the same Lord who ruleth the world ; for by this means the peopled world...convenient stay, neither too full nor too empty ; for if the generality of men were to live now to Abraham's age, of an hundred and seventy-five years, the... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1831 - Страниц: 590
...of man to seventy or eighty years is manifestly an appointment of the same infinite providence ; as by this means the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay." PhysicoTheology, book iv. chapter x. It may indeed happen, that from the circumstances of a particular... | |
 | James Robert Page - 1863 - Страниц: 198
...(the age mentioned by Moses, Ps. xc. 10), — this, I say, is manifestly an appointment of the same Infinite LORD that ruleth the world. For by this means,...(the generality of them, I mean) were to live now to Methuselah's age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, or only to Abraham's, long after the flood,... | |
 | William Derham - 2012 - Страниц: 488
...faith Sir Rob. SibMd Prtjr. Hifl. tint. Scot. p. 44 and I. 3. p. 4, the fame infinite Lord that rulrth the World. For, by this means the peopled World is...(the generality of them I mean) were to live now to Metbufalab's Age of 969 Years, or only to Abraham's, long after the Flood, of i7, Years, the World... | |
 | Lorraine Daston - 1988 - Страниц: 456
...patriarchs at the beginning of the world and immediately after the flood, to compensate for depopulation: "For, by this means, the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too full, nor too empty."71 As the quotation suggests, Derham was less concerned with the regularity of the mortality... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - 2007 - Страниц: 344
...Flood ... and so down to our present time ... the lessening of the age of Man to 70 or 80 Years ... by this means, the peopled World is kept at a convenient Stay, neither too full or too empty. (The logic of this fails to explain why, if population increase had been important in... | |
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For by this means, the peopled world is kept at a convenient stay, neither too full nor too empty. 