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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... means evident which was the more ancient ; but there can be no doubt but that they live'd partly in the fame period , which appears from an epigram infcribe'd on a tripod ,, which is fay'd to have been depofited by Hefiod on mount ...
... means evident which was the more ancient ; but there can be no doubt but that they live'd partly in the fame period , which appears from an epigram infcribe'd on a tripod ,, which is fay'd to have been depofited by Hefiod on mount ...
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... means it came to pafs , that , in the first begining of all things , various liveing creatures proceeded from the earth : and thefe , fays he , are the opinions touching the original of things . But ( he proceeds ) men , they fay , at ...
... means it came to pafs , that , in the first begining of all things , various liveing creatures proceeded from the earth : and thefe , fays he , are the opinions touching the original of things . But ( he proceeds ) men , they fay , at ...
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... upright on his feet . It was the fame , " he says , * P . 354 . + It is , by no mean , credible , that this wolf - boy fay'd this , or could utter a fingle fyllable . " with another child , found , in 1694 , CHAP . I. 23 OF MAN ,
... upright on his feet . It was the fame , " he says , * P . 354 . + It is , by no mean , credible , that this wolf - boy fay'd this , or could utter a fingle fyllable . " with another child , found , in 1694 , CHAP . I. 23 OF MAN ,
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... mean- * " The more we reflect , " he has fay'd , " on this fubject , the greater appears the distance between mere ... means of reproducing it ? and how often may not such secrets have dye'd with the difcoverer ? ... Let it be confider ...
... mean- * " The more we reflect , " he has fay'd , " on this fubject , the greater appears the distance between mere ... means of reproducing it ? and how often may not such secrets have dye'd with the difcoverer ? ... Let it be confider ...
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... means , prove what it is brought to do . Evidence of a fatisfactory and convinceing nature has been allready adduce'd that , in what are call'd the early ageës of mankind , the ufe of animal food was totally unknown ; and that , in fome ...
... means , prove what it is brought to do . Evidence of a fatisfactory and convinceing nature has been allready adduce'd that , in what are call'd the early ageës of mankind , the ufe of animal food was totally unknown ; and that , in fome ...
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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...