An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food: As a Moral DutyAlong the train lines north of New York City, twelve-year-old neighbors Myla and Peter search for the link between Myla's necklace and the disappearance of Peter's brother, Randall. Thrown into a world of parkour, graffiti, and diamond-smuggling, Myla and Peter encounter a band of thugs who are after the same thing as Randall. Can Myla and Peter find Randall before it's too late, and their shared family secrets threaten to destroy them all? |
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... dead ; which in- feft and prove fatal to half the children born , fweeping them off the ftage of life at an early and immature period , in a proportion beyond that of any other fpecies . The dog is the na- tural enemy to the cat , the ...
... dead ; which in- feft and prove fatal to half the children born , fweeping them off the ftage of life at an early and immature period , in a proportion beyond that of any other fpecies . The dog is the na- tural enemy to the cat , the ...
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... heart being fet On bloody actions , the rude scene may end , And darkness be the buryer of the dead . " Shakspeare , Second part of Henry IV . * Paradife left , B. II . [ 41 ] CHAP . II . ANIMAL FOOD NOT 40 CHAR . 1 . OF MAN .
... heart being fet On bloody actions , the rude scene may end , And darkness be the buryer of the dead . " Shakspeare , Second part of Henry IV . * Paradife left , B. II . [ 41 ] CHAP . II . ANIMAL FOOD NOT 40 CHAR . 1 . OF MAN .
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... dead , the reft did eat her flesh , leaving nothing but the bare bones . " Boates Natural biftory , p . 174. ) See allfo Hearnes Journey into the northern ocean , p . 244. ) Dogs , on the contrary , every other kind of fustenance , even ...
... dead , the reft did eat her flesh , leaving nothing but the bare bones . " Boates Natural biftory , p . 174. ) See allfo Hearnes Journey into the northern ocean , p . 244. ) Dogs , on the contrary , every other kind of fustenance , even ...
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... dead animate : ' and having fet people courfees of ghaftly corpfeës and ghofts , could give those parts the names of meat and victuals , that but a little before low'd , cry'd , move'd and faw ; how his fight could en- dure the blood of ...
... dead animate : ' and having fet people courfees of ghaftly corpfeës and ghofts , could give those parts the names of meat and victuals , that but a little before low'd , cry'd , move'd and faw ; how his fight could en- dure the blood of ...
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... dead , and art loth to force a foul out of its body , why , then , do'ft thou , against nature , eat an animate thing ? Nay , there is no one that is wiling to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing as it is , but they boil it , and roast ...
... dead , and art loth to force a foul out of its body , why , then , do'ft thou , against nature , eat an animate thing ? Nay , there is no one that is wiling to eat even a lifeless and a dead thing as it is , but they boil it , and roast ...
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Page 55 - Nor think, in nature's state they blindly trod; The state of nature was the reign of God: Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man. Pride then was not; nor arts, that pride to aid; Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade, The same his table, and the same his bed; No murder cloath'd him, and no murder fed.
Page 164 - And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, "Who shall give us flesh to eat? We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Page 159 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 198 - For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 173 - E'er plough'd for him. They too are temper'd high, With hunger stung and wild necessity, Nor lodges pity in their shaggy breast. But Man, whom Nature form'd of milder clay, With every kind emotion in his heart, And taught alone to weep...
Page 174 - What have ye done; ye peaceful people, what, To merit death ? you, who have given us milk In luscious streams, and lent us your own coat Against the winter's cold?
Page 121 - Th' enormous faith of many made for one ; That proud exception to all Nature's laws, T...
Page 55 - Lives on the labours of this lord of all. Know Nature's children all divide her care ; The fur that warms a monarch warm'da bear. While man exclaims, " See all things for my use ! "
Page 55 - Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings. Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? Loves of his own and raptures swell the note.
Page 169 - And gorge th' ungodly maw with meats obfcene. Not fo the golden age, who fed on fruit, Nor durft with bloody meals their mouths pollute. Then birds in airy fpace might fafely move, And...