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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... tion , I could not for my life imagine , where he had pick'd up this new Philosophy , which had almoft frighted fome of the Company out of their Senfes . - I fhall never forget the puz- zled afflicted Face of the honeft Juftice , who ...
... tion , I could not for my life imagine , where he had pick'd up this new Philosophy , which had almoft frighted fome of the Company out of their Senfes . - I fhall never forget the puz- zled afflicted Face of the honeft Juftice , who ...
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... 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 , and for- gets that the Foot may crush them , or that the ...
... 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 , and for- gets that the Foot may crush them , or that the ...
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... tion of innate Ideas , and has by confequence left us nothing but those which we receive by Sen- fation , to be the Ground - work of our most re- fined Speculations . Why then will he not al- low the fame uniform Effect to be produced ...
... tion of innate Ideas , and has by confequence left us nothing but those which we receive by Sen- fation , to be the Ground - work of our most re- fined Speculations . Why then will he not al- low the fame uniform Effect to be produced ...
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... tion of the Head , a Gesture , nay the leaft Sign in the World ? Ay ! and when we are difpleafed or angry , we can as eafily make ourselves under- ftood by Looks and Gestures , as by the plaineft and moft expreffive Language . How often ...
... tion of the Head , a Gesture , nay the leaft Sign in the World ? Ay ! and when we are difpleafed or angry , we can as eafily make ourselves under- ftood by Looks and Gestures , as by the plaineft and moft expreffive Language . How often ...
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... tion , and whatever is fit for their Condition , and fuitable to the peculiar 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 ...
... tion , and whatever is fit for their Condition , and fuitable to the peculiar 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 ...
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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.