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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... 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 , tho ' a very good Proteftant ...
... 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 , tho ' a very good Proteftant ...
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... imagine , that nothing but Vanity , an Itch of Singularity , or a Defire of Victory , could ever have extorted from fo great and excellent a Perfon and I cannot pafs it by without fome little Examination , for which I fhall offer at no ...
... imagine , that nothing but Vanity , an Itch of Singularity , or a Defire of Victory , could ever have extorted from fo great and excellent a Perfon and I cannot pafs it by without fome little Examination , for which I fhall offer at no ...
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... imagine , Madam , that the Martins " could have been able to hatch and concert " this Defign all of them together , without speak- ing to each other ? " Wonders c 66 " Wonders are recounted by Travellers of the ( 45 )
... imagine , Madam , that the Martins " could have been able to hatch and concert " this Defign all of them together , without speak- ing to each other ? " Wonders c 66 " Wonders are recounted by Travellers of the ( 45 )
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... imagine a Conversation " betwixt two Fishes , two Ants , or two " Worms ? The Birds indeed fing , the Dogs " bark , the Wolves howl , Sheep bleat , Lions tr " roar , Oxen low , Horses neigh ; this every body hears and knows but who ever ...
... imagine a Conversation " betwixt two Fishes , two Ants , or two " Worms ? The Birds indeed fing , the Dogs " bark , the Wolves howl , Sheep bleat , Lions tr " roar , Oxen low , Horses neigh ; this every body hears and knows but who ever ...
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... imagine there would be no Pu- nishment . And yet there feems to be an univerfal Sentence of Condemnation gone out against the whole Syftem . They fuffer in every Article of their Nature in fuch a manner , C 1 ) manner , as one would ...
... imagine there would be no Pu- nishment . And yet there feems to be an univerfal Sentence of Condemnation gone out against the whole Syftem . They fuffer in every Article of their Nature in fuch a manner , C 1 ) manner , as one would ...
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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.