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... reasons well , and discovers more Sense and better Logic than many a stupid Puppy with two Legs , who lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy ...
... reasons well , and discovers more Sense and better Logic than many a stupid Puppy with two Legs , who lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy ...
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... Reasons for fo doing . By this , they pretend to account for many wonderful Ope- rations and Effects in the almoft infinite Variety of Species through the Brute - Creation , such as , for inftance , all forts of Birds building their ...
... Reasons for fo doing . By this , they pretend to account for many wonderful Ope- rations and Effects in the almoft infinite Variety of Species through the Brute - Creation , such as , for inftance , all forts of Birds building their ...
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... Reason , and Philofophy , have eftablished them under the " commendable Pretence of mutual Aids and " Benefits ; but a Spirit of Selfishness destroys << << all ; and one half of Mankind , to load them- " felves with Superfluities ...
... Reason , and Philofophy , have eftablished them under the " commendable Pretence of mutual Aids and " Benefits ; but a Spirit of Selfishness destroys << << all ; and one half of Mankind , to load them- " felves with Superfluities ...
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... reason , tho ' they are not capable of comparing and comprehending these Ideas , and reasoning abftractedly , as we do . Yet ( fays he ) if they have any Ideas at all , and are not mere Machines , as fome would have them , we can't deny ...
... reason , tho ' they are not capable of comparing and comprehending these Ideas , and reasoning abftractedly , as we do . Yet ( fays he ) if they have any Ideas at all , and are not mere Machines , as fome would have them , we can't deny ...
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... Reason . This philofophi- cal Limitation of the Understanding of Brutes , founds a little aukwardly from this great Man , because he has allowed the most exalted Hu- man Understanding no better Materials to work upon . He has very ...
... Reason . This philofophi- cal Limitation of the Understanding of Brutes , founds a little aukwardly from this great Man , because he has allowed the most exalted Hu- man Understanding no better Materials to work upon . He has very ...
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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.