Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation, Or, An Examination of Father Bougeant's Philosophical Amusement, &c: In Two Letters to a Lady ... |
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... Effects in the almoft infinite Variety of Species through the Brute - Creation , such as , for inftance , all forts of Birds building their Nefts in exact uniformity of Model and with the fame Materials , all the various Methods of Cure ...
... Effects in the almoft infinite Variety of Species through the Brute - Creation , such as , for inftance , all forts of Birds building their Nefts in exact uniformity of Model and with the fame Materials , all the various Methods of Cure ...
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... Effects of their Understanding and fince it is folely in confe quence of a knowing Faculty , that Man performs the fame Operations , why should not the fame Principle alfo rule in the Brutes ? And where would be the Herefy of believing ...
... Effects of their Understanding and fince it is folely in confe quence of a knowing Faculty , that Man performs the fame Operations , why should not the fame Principle alfo rule in the Brutes ? And where would be the Herefy of believing ...
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... Effect to be produced by the fame uniform Cause in both ? Why does he take fo much pains to perfuade himself and us , that Rationality in Brutes must proceed from a quite different Cause , from what it does in ourselves ? What is he ...
... Effect to be produced by the fame uniform Cause in both ? Why does he take fo much pains to perfuade himself and us , that Rationality in Brutes must proceed from a quite different Cause , from what it does in ourselves ? What is he ...
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... effect Contradictions , cannot make the fame Thing to be , and not to be , at the fame time ; cannot make a Subftance , which , as folidly extended , muft refift all Change of State , become ( while it continues unactive and dead ) Life ...
... effect Contradictions , cannot make the fame Thing to be , and not to be , at the fame time ; cannot make a Subftance , which , as folidly extended , muft refift all Change of State , become ( while it continues unactive and dead ) Life ...
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... Effects commonly af- cribed to certain natural Powers refiding in Mat- ter , are immediately produced by the Power of an immaterial Being , who first created this dead Substance Matter , originally impreffed , and still continues to ...
... Effects commonly af- cribed to certain natural Powers refiding in Mat- ter , are immediately produced by the Power of an immaterial Being , who first created this dead Substance Matter , originally impreffed , and still continues to ...
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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.