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... see them " diffatisfied with their Condition , or inclinable " to abandon the Hive , in Disgust to find them- " felves Slaves or Neceffitous . On the contrary , they think themselves in perfect Freedom , " and perfect Affluence , as ...
... see them " diffatisfied with their Condition , or inclinable " to abandon the Hive , in Disgust to find them- " felves Slaves or Neceffitous . On the contrary , they think themselves in perfect Freedom , " and perfect Affluence , as ...
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... See a Cock near his Hen , a Dove " near the Female he is courting , a Cat fol- " < c lowing his Mate , there is no end of their " Difcourfes , till there is an end of their Court- fhip . But there is one important Reflection " yet ...
... See a Cock near his Hen , a Dove " near the Female he is courting , a Cat fol- " < c lowing his Mate , there is no end of their " Difcourfes , till there is an end of their Court- fhip . But there is one important Reflection " yet ...
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... see them have Dexterity , Forecast , Memory , and Judg- ment . Ifhould rather have occafion to wonder at their having no more , fince their Soul , very lik ly , is more perfect than ours : But I discover the Reafon of this , it is ...
... see them have Dexterity , Forecast , Memory , and Judg- ment . Ifhould rather have occafion to wonder at their having no more , fince their Soul , very lik ly , is more perfect than ours : But I discover the Reafon of this , it is ...
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... see them at present ? A God of infinite Wif dom and Goodness could make none of his Creatures to be miferable ; much less would he , by an arbitrary Act of his Will and Pleasure , deprive them of any kind or degree of Happi- nefs ...
... see them at present ? A God of infinite Wif dom and Goodness could make none of his Creatures to be miferable ; much less would he , by an arbitrary Act of his Will and Pleasure , deprive them of any kind or degree of Happi- nefs ...
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... see them at prefent . I have often been tempted to indulge an Imagination , that in the original Frame of Things , every Species of Animals were in at more particular and immedite Manner related or united to fome one particular Part ...
... see them at prefent . I have often been tempted to indulge an Imagination , that in the original Frame of Things , every Species of Animals were in at more particular and immedite Manner related or united to fome one particular Part ...
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Page 5 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
Page 63 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 63 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 3 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise: the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 35 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works : in wifdom haft thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches.
Page 46 - the roaring of lions, the warbling of cats and screech-owls, together with a mixture of the howling of dogs, judiciously imitated and compounded, might go a great way in this invention.