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... seems to confider as a Per- fon of Discernment and Diftinction . Let us now follow him his own way . His first Chapter is Of the Understanding of Brutes . He begins with this Queftion ; Have Brutes any Understanding ? I am convinced ...
... seems to confider as a Per- fon of Discernment and Diftinction . Let us now follow him his own way . His first Chapter is Of the Understanding of Brutes . He begins with this Queftion ; Have Brutes any Understanding ? I am convinced ...
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... seems either impoffible or improbable ? Does not the whole appear confiftent , reasonable , worthy of God , and agreeable to Scripture ? On the other hand , how mean , how trifling , how un- worthy of God , how repugnant to Scripture ...
... seems either impoffible or improbable ? Does not the whole appear confiftent , reasonable , worthy of God , and agreeable to Scripture ? On the other hand , how mean , how trifling , how un- worthy of God , how repugnant to Scripture ...
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... seem to have the leaft Symptoms of the uni- verfal Malignity which has more or less poi- foned the whole Syftem , whom Religion and Philofophy reprefent to us as the most per- fect created Emblems of human Virtue and Innocence ; I mean ...
... seem to have the leaft Symptoms of the uni- verfal Malignity which has more or less poi- foned the whole Syftem , whom Religion and Philofophy reprefent to us as the most per- fect created Emblems of human Virtue and Innocence ; I mean ...
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... ungrateful . To fay the truth , Ingratitude and Infincerity seem to be Vices of mere human Growth , seldom or ne- ver to be found among the Brute - Creation ; on . the the other hand , many illuftrious and fur- prizing Inftances ( 23 )
... ungrateful . To fay the truth , Ingratitude and Infincerity seem to be Vices of mere human Growth , seldom or ne- ver to be found among the Brute - Creation ; on . the the other hand , many illuftrious and fur- prizing Inftances ( 23 )
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... seems a di- rect Contradiction to both . The wife Preach- er has given us a deeper and fafer Founda- tion for our Philofophy , Ecclef . iii . 14. I know that what foever God doeth , it shall be for ever , nothing can be put to it , nor ...
... seems a di- rect Contradiction to both . The wife Preach- er has given us a deeper and fafer Founda- tion for our Philofophy , Ecclef . iii . 14. I know that what foever God doeth , it shall be for ever , nothing can be put to it , nor ...
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Page 5 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 63 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 63 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 3 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 35 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works : in wifdom haft thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches.
Page 46 - the roaring of lions, the warbling of cats and screech-owls, together with a mixture of the howling of dogs, judiciously imitated and compounded, might go a great way in this invention.