Scriptural & Philosophical Arguments, Or Cogent Proofs from Reason & Revelation that Brutes Have SoulsP. Buchan, 1824 - 120 pages |
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... attended to . The characters whom he is requested to guard against , are but a too plentiful crop in the world , like the young pelicans in the wilderness , feeding on the blood of their parents . Although the char- acters alluded to be ...
... attended to . The characters whom he is requested to guard against , are but a too plentiful crop in the world , like the young pelicans in the wilderness , feeding on the blood of their parents . Although the char- acters alluded to be ...
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... attend youth in their first entrance on the stage of the world , are sabbath - breaking , drinking , and bad company , particularly that of women . You are desired to remember the sabbath - day , and to keep it holy . This can only be ...
... attend youth in their first entrance on the stage of the world , are sabbath - breaking , drinking , and bad company , particularly that of women . You are desired to remember the sabbath - day , and to keep it holy . This can only be ...
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... attends hunting . 3 . Amadeus , duke of Savoy , when asked by certain embassadørs that came to his court , What hounds he had , for they desired to see them ? He shewed them the next day , a pack af poor ..people feeding at his table ...
... attends hunting . 3 . Amadeus , duke of Savoy , when asked by certain embassadørs that came to his court , What hounds he had , for they desired to see them ? He shewed them the next day , a pack af poor ..people feeding at his table ...
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... attended to : there are three classes of people more dangerous than any I have yet mentioned , as their evils are of greater magnitude , and you are more liable to them . Their insinuations are like the syren's song , and the serpent's ...
... attended to : there are three classes of people more dangerous than any I have yet mentioned , as their evils are of greater magnitude , and you are more liable to them . Their insinuations are like the syren's song , and the serpent's ...
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... of God , which is of the utmost importance for you to know before you attend to his ministry . For all enthusiasts when the fit is strong , Indulge a volubility of tongue . I have now , my dear Charles , given you XVIII.
... of God , which is of the utmost importance for you to know before you attend to his ministry . For all enthusiasts when the fit is strong , Indulge a volubility of tongue . I have now , my dear Charles , given you XVIII.
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Page 98 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 120 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 21 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Page 32 - Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives and what denies ? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass ! What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme!
Page 24 - Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest : that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Page 25 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Page 33 - Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 27 - His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce, The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw In hillocks: The swift stag from under ground...
Page 32 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go!
Page 20 - 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: and it was so.