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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Each would make the like use of its hands and feet ; for it can be prove ' d , not
onely , that man , in such a state , would frequently make use of his hands for feet
, and walk upon all - four ; but , allso , that the ourang - outang frequently stands ...
Each would make the like use of its hands and feet ; for it can be prove ' d , not
onely , that man , in such a state , would frequently make use of his hands for feet
, and walk upon all - four ; but , allso , that the ourang - outang frequently stands ...
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Their hands , cheeks and ears , are quite bare of hair to their eye - brows , which
are very long . The other parts of their bodys are pretty hairy , and the hair is of a
brown colour . In fine , the onely thing by which they can be distinguish ' d from ...
Their hands , cheeks and ears , are quite bare of hair to their eye - brows , which
are very long . The other parts of their bodys are pretty hairy , and the hair is of a
brown colour . In fine , the onely thing by which they can be distinguish ' d from ...
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He flept lyeing along , in a human posture , with one hand under his head . ...
used to wear cloaths , it was fond enough of them ; and what it could not put on its
' self , it would bring in its ' hands to some of the company , to help it to put [ it ] on .
He flept lyeing along , in a human posture , with one hand under his head . ...
used to wear cloaths , it was fond enough of them ; and what it could not put on its
' self , it would bring in its ' hands to some of the company , to help it to put [ it ] on .
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... one of them pulld out a hand , with all its fingers and nails ; besides which they
afterwards discover ' d pieces of feet , of ... were forry they had eaten of the meat ,
and their ftomachs turn ' d at the sight of the hands and fingers ; BUT IT PASS ...
... one of them pulld out a hand , with all its fingers and nails ; besides which they
afterwards discover ' d pieces of feet , of ... were forry they had eaten of the meat ,
and their ftomachs turn ' d at the sight of the hands and fingers ; BUT IT PASS ...
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... use them in maiming and murdering each other ? whose power over them was
employ ' d in assisting the rapacious , deceiveing the simple , and oppressing the
innocent ? who , was hands : yet the name of Bosjesman is held in horrour and ...
... use them in maiming and murdering each other ? whose power over them was
employ ' d in assisting the rapacious , deceiveing the simple , and oppressing the
innocent ? who , was hands : yet the name of Bosjesman is held in horrour and ...
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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.
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| Title | An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food: As a Moral Duty |
| Author | Joseph Ritson |
| Publisher | R. Phillips, 1802 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 236 pages |
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