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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... young in the man- ner of good christians . I once , fays Labillardiere , witness'd a fingular fact , which fhews what authority thefe animals pos- fels over their young . A large ape , that was follow'd by a very little one , thinking ...
... young in the man- ner of good christians . I once , fays Labillardiere , witness'd a fingular fact , which fhews what authority thefe animals pos- fels over their young . A large ape , that was follow'd by a very little one , thinking ...
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... young chil- dren , and is the effect of education , not of na- ture : but of this more hereafter . The translator of The history of voyagees , as citeëd by Rousseau , tels us that there is found in the kingdom of Congo a great number of ...
... young chil- dren , and is the effect of education , not of na- ture : but of this more hereafter . The translator of The history of voyagees , as citeëd by Rousseau , tels us that there is found in the kingdom of Congo a great number of ...
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... young to fhew me many pranks ; there- for , i fhal onely tel you he was a great thief , and love'd ftrong liquors ; for , if our backs were turn'd , he would be at the punch - bowl , and very often would open the brandy - cafe , and put ...
... young to fhew me many pranks ; there- for , i fhal onely tel you he was a great thief , and love'd ftrong liquors ; for , if our backs were turn'd , he would be at the punch - bowl , and very often would open the brandy - cafe , and put ...
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... young outang dis- play'd more intelligence , and even posfefs'd much more ftrength , at the age of twelve months , than a buman being ( as he is call'd ) was ever known to do at the age of twelve years . See Tyfons Anatomy , & c . p ...
... young outang dis- play'd more intelligence , and even posfefs'd much more ftrength , at the age of twelve months , than a buman being ( as he is call'd ) was ever known to do at the age of twelve years . See Tyfons Anatomy , & c . p ...
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... young favage of Aveyron , a child , about eleven or twelve years of age , who had been This was Peter the wild boy , who , to the editours . knowlege , could , when he faw him , walk very wel , on two legs , though he could icarcely ...
... young favage of Aveyron , a child , about eleven or twelve years of age , who had been This was Peter the wild boy , who , to the editours . knowlege , could , when he faw him , walk very wel , on two legs , though he could icarcely ...
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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...