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Page 37
... Perfection , that moft ufeful Branch of Science , ' which I call Political Arithmetic , by which alone fuch furprifing Wonders have been effected , as our Fathers D 3 would would have thought and pronounced to be abfolutely impoffible ...
... Perfection , that moft ufeful Branch of Science , ' which I call Political Arithmetic , by which alone fuch furprifing Wonders have been effected , as our Fathers D 3 would would have thought and pronounced to be abfolutely impoffible ...
Page 39
... Perfection of Numbers , reduced to perfect Harmony , Proportion , and Order . These were great and useful Discoveries , confidering the Age in which they were made : But , had that great Philofopher lived in these our marvel- lous Days ...
... Perfection of Numbers , reduced to perfect Harmony , Proportion , and Order . These were great and useful Discoveries , confidering the Age in which they were made : But , had that great Philofopher lived in these our marvel- lous Days ...
Page 42
... begging . Sure I am , that if this Method could be brought to any Perfection , it would be a more faving Article to the Public than the the Sinking Fund , and therefore we may reasonably hope 42 An Effay for the better Regulation.
... begging . Sure I am , that if this Method could be brought to any Perfection , it would be a more faving Article to the Public than the the Sinking Fund , and therefore we may reasonably hope 42 An Effay for the better Regulation.
Page 87
... Perfection , abfolutely Perfect , must be a Creature of contracted Views , narrow Apprehensions , and a poor Understanding ; whom , without Breach of Cha- rity , or good Manners , we may venture to pro- nounce , as the Royal Pfalmift ...
... Perfection , abfolutely Perfect , must be a Creature of contracted Views , narrow Apprehensions , and a poor Understanding ; whom , without Breach of Cha- rity , or good Manners , we may venture to pro- nounce , as the Royal Pfalmift ...
Page 90
... Perfection of Justice . An unjuft Man therefore cannot be a Man of Honour . That Ingratitude is inconfiftent with Honour , is equally plain and undeniable , as it is a Complica- tion of every Thing that is vile , fneaking , base ...
... Perfection of Justice . An unjuft Man therefore cannot be a Man of Honour . That Ingratitude is inconfiftent with Honour , is equally plain and undeniable , as it is a Complica- tion of every Thing that is vile , fneaking , base ...
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Page 225 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 221 - 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.
Page 257 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 221 - 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 230 - 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 168 - 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 222 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 221 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 275 - I may be confident, that whoever should see a creature of his own shape and make, though it had no more reason all its life than a cat or a parrot, would call him still a man ; or whoever should hear a cat or a parrot discourse, reason and philosophize, would call or think it nothing but a cat or a parrot ; and say, the one was a dull irrational man, and the other a very intelligent rational parrot.