Significados de human contrivance em inglês

Why do we admit design in any machine of human contrivance?

Because circumstances that tally one with another are above human contrivance.

And here I must pause, to point out to you the short-sightedness of human contrivance.

All the varieties of colour and form which we witness, he attributes to human contrivance and fancy.

The adjustment of means to ends is alike in the universe, as in a machine of human contrivance.

The premeditated human contrivance of the nose-ring was too cunning for impulsive brute force, and the creature flinched.

What human contrivance could do that?

The world, says he, resembles the works of human contrivance; therefore its cause must also resemble that of the other.

To come near God by his own spiritual activity without halting at forms of human contrivance is his spiritual ambition.

In neither of these characters was he likely to have much respect for legal maxims, or rules of merely human contrivance.

His practical eye saw that whatever it might be, it was a human contrivance, and there could be nothing supernatural about it.

Such a market is less a human contrivance, to be manipulated like any other, than a force to be studied and placated.

All these things are of human contrivance, and the authorities were doing their best to set them right, as Miss Hobhouse herself acknowledged.

You don't know that marriage is merely a human contrivance and, nine times out of ten, an infernally clumsy makeshift and a long-drawn pretence.

All these are mere human contrivances for the interest of society.

Of all human contrivances the most imperfect is government.