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" God therefore animated that machine which furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals ; which was both graciously and providently done; for by this means he gained so much life to the world as there is in those animals which are food for others... "
The Hopes of the Human Race: Hereafter and Here - Page xxxix
by Frances Power Cobbe - 1874 - 218 pages
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Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 168 pages
...have supplied men with such food, but one that is animated does it much better and with more ease. A being that has life is preferable to one that has...furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals; by this means he gained so much life to the world as there is in those animals which are food to others....
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Pope. Essay on man, ed. by M. Pattison

Alexander Pope - 1878 - 138 pages
...have supplied men with such food, but one that is animated does it much better and with more ease. A being that has life is preferable to one that has...furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals ; by this means he gained so much life to the world as there is in those animals which are food to...
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The cabinet of Irish literature, with biogr. sketches and literary notices ...

Charles Anderton Read - 1879 - 404 pages
...that is animated does it much better and with more ease. A being that has life is (cceteru paribus) preferable to one that has not; God therefore animated...furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals ; which waa both graciously and providently done; for by this means he gained so much life to the world...
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The Hopes of the Human Race: Hereafter and Here: Essays on the Life After ...

Frances Power Cobbe - Future life - 1880 - 236 pages
...hundred, happy and enjoying themselves, for once we notice them in any kind of pain. The same rule * Archbishop King says : " God could have created an...producing white veal, suffers as much as a crucified applies to our impressions as in the case of human suffering. We are so much more struck by the sight...
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Pope: Essay on Man

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1881 - 150 pages
...have supplied men with such food, but one that is animated does it much better and with more ease. A being that has life is preferable to one that has...furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals ; by this means he gained so much life to the world as there is in those animals which are food to...
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The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the ..., Volume 1

Irish literature - 1893 - 386 pages
...that is animated does it much better and with more ease. A being that has life is (cœteris paribus) preferable to one that has not; God therefore animated...furnishes out provision for the more perfect animals ; which was both graciously and providently done; for by this means he gained so much life to the world...
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