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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... - fume the fame for you . An Understanding they certainly have of fuch a kind or degree , at least as is fufficient for their state and rank in the univerfal 1 univerfal System , and the feveral duties and of- fices ( 5 )
... - fume the fame for you . An Understanding they certainly have of fuch a kind or degree , at least as is fufficient for their state and rank in the univerfal 1 univerfal System , and the feveral duties and of- fices ( 5 )
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... kind of Mechanical Neceffity , by which we are in a manner compelled to perform such and fuch Actions , without being able to know or ex- plain the Reasons for fo doing . By this , they pretend to account for many wonderful Ope- rations ...
... kind of Mechanical Neceffity , by which we are in a manner compelled to perform such and fuch Actions , without being able to know or ex- plain the Reasons for fo doing . By this , they pretend to account for many wonderful Ope- rations ...
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... Kind and Degree as is proper for their State and Condi- tion in the Scale of Beings . Thus Ch . xxxix . 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17. fpeaking of the Ostrich , he obferves , that he leaves her Eggs in the Earth , and warms them in the Duft ...
... Kind and Degree as is proper for their State and Condi- tion in the Scale of Beings . Thus Ch . xxxix . 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17. fpeaking of the Ostrich , he obferves , that he leaves her Eggs in the Earth , and warms them in the Duft ...
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... kind of inarticu late Sounds , Geftures , or Motions , by which , in the feveral Tribes and Families of the Brute - Cre- ation , the Individuals communicate their Senti- ments , their Wants , their Defires to each other and these are ...
... kind of inarticu late Sounds , Geftures , or Motions , by which , in the feveral Tribes and Families of the Brute - Cre- ation , the Individuals communicate their Senti- ments , their Wants , their Defires to each other and these are ...
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... kind of Life he has ap- pointed for them . Let us , moreover , confider that many Species of Birds , Beafts , and Infects are made to live in Society at large , and others . to live in a kind of domeftic Society , Male and Female ...
... kind of Life he has ap- pointed for them . Let us , moreover , confider that many Species of Birds , Beafts , and Infects are made to live in Society at large , and others . to live in a kind of domeftic Society , Male and Female ...
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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.