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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... least , and equivalent to what we call Understanding in ourselves ; and why we should call it by any other Name in them , I confess I am at a lofs to determine . If then the feveral Species of Brutes do by the Strength of their own ...
... least , and equivalent to what we call Understanding in ourselves ; and why we should call it by any other Name in them , I confess I am at a lofs to determine . If then the feveral Species of Brutes do by the Strength of their own ...
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... least . Immediately 66 we faw them return to the Charge ; and " each of them having procured a little of that temper'd Earth , with which they make their " Nefts , they all at once fell upon the Spar- 66 row , and inclosed him in the ...
... least . Immediately 66 we faw them return to the Charge ; and " each of them having procured a little of that temper'd Earth , with which they make their " Nefts , they all at once fell upon the Spar- 66 row , and inclosed him in the ...
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... . " much more is it poffible , that there may be 66 in the Water Noifes infenfible to us , and that " Fishes may by that means fpeak , without cr 6c cc 66 A H << • How ' being ป being audible to us at least I delight in " ( 49 )
... . " much more is it poffible , that there may be 66 in the Water Noifes infenfible to us , and that " Fishes may by that means fpeak , without cr 6c cc 66 A H << • How ' being ป being audible to us at least I delight in " ( 49 )
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... least I delight in " thinking fo , not to rob any part of the Cre- " ation of thofe Perfections which Nature uses " L to beftow on all nor could I think , with- out a kind of philofophical Melancholy , " that she had doomed to eternal ...
... least I delight in " thinking fo , not to rob any part of the Cre- " ation of thofe Perfections which Nature uses " L to beftow on all nor could I think , with- out a kind of philofophical Melancholy , " that she had doomed to eternal ...
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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.