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... changes the ef Jential Properties of Matter , & c . Well ! and a very good Reafon it would certainly be ; for Om ... Change of State , become ( while it continues unactive and dead ) Life , Senfe , and fpontaneous Motion ; for that ...
... changes the ef Jential Properties of Matter , & c . Well ! and a very good Reafon it would certainly be ; for Om ... Change of State , become ( while it continues unactive and dead ) Life , Senfe , and fpontaneous Motion ; for that ...
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... Change from Reft to Motion , and from Motion to Reft , and that arbitrarily , can never be Matter , whofe ef- fential Property it is neceffarily to refift all change of its State , either of Reft or Motion . I therefore conclude , that ...
... Change from Reft to Motion , and from Motion to Reft , and that arbitrarily , can never be Matter , whofe ef- fential Property it is neceffarily to refift all change of its State , either of Reft or Motion . I therefore conclude , that ...
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... Days , if the hears no- thing , the changes her Habitation , till fhe " finds one that anfwers her . It is another Spi- " der that answers her exactly in the fame man- H 2 < ner , < c σε ner , and , as it were ( 51 )
... Days , if the hears no- thing , the changes her Habitation , till fhe " finds one that anfwers her . It is another Spi- " der that answers her exactly in the fame man- H 2 < ner , < c σε ner , and , as it were ( 51 )
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... Change ? this unhappy Subverfion of their primitive State , their prefent lamen- table Condition ! I have already told you , that their Happi- nefs confifted in the Communications of di- vine Bleffings , which were conveyed to them ...
... Change ? this unhappy Subverfion of their primitive State , their prefent lamen- table Condition ! I have already told you , that their Happi- nefs confifted in the Communications of di- vine Bleffings , which were conveyed to them ...
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... Change , made fo many different Sources and Inftruments of Disorder and Confufion , and the more exalted and powerful they were in the original Frame and - Intention of Nature , fo much the more nox- ious , malignant and deftructive ...
... Change , made fo many different Sources and Inftruments of Disorder and Confufion , and the more exalted and powerful they were in the original Frame and - Intention of Nature , fo much the more nox- ious , malignant and deftructive ...
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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.