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... should we give them a need- lefs Inftinct ? Thefe wonderful Operations may be , for ought we know , the fimple Effects of their Understanding and fince it is folely in confe quence of a knowing Faculty , that Man performs the fame ...
... should we give them a need- lefs Inftinct ? Thefe wonderful Operations may be , for ought we know , the fimple Effects of their Understanding and fince it is folely in confe quence of a knowing Faculty , that Man performs the fame ...
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... should call it by any other Name in them , I confess I am at a lofs to determine . If then the feveral Species of Brutes do by the Strength of their own Understandings , think , reafon , project , contrive , and perform every Of- fice ...
... should call it by any other Name in them , I confess I am at a lofs to determine . If then the feveral Species of Brutes do by the Strength of their own Understandings , think , reafon , project , contrive , and perform every Of- fice ...
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... should ascend , they may remove to a higher Situation ; if they find any little Ifland ແ near the Reservoir , they fix the Dwelling there , which is then more folid , and they " lefs incommoded with the Water , in which 66 ( C ...
... should ascend , they may remove to a higher Situation ; if they find any little Ifland ແ near the Reservoir , they fix the Dwelling there , which is then more folid , and they " lefs incommoded with the Water , in which 66 ( C ...
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... should not have a thousand things to fay to each other ? It is impoffible in the order of Nature , that a Sparrow , or a Turtle , that is fond of his Mate , fhould be at a lofs for proper Expreffions to dif- cover the Tenderness , the ...
... should not have a thousand things to fay to each other ? It is impoffible in the order of Nature , that a Sparrow , or a Turtle , that is fond of his Mate , fhould be at a lofs for proper Expreffions to dif- cover the Tenderness , the ...
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... should allow Understand- " ing and Language to the feveral Species of " Beafts , Birds , and Infects ; What fhall we do " with the Fishes and Reptiles ; What can we " with ( 47 ) den, the very firft Sparrow that perceives her, ...
... should allow Understand- " ing and Language to the feveral Species of " Beafts , Birds , and Infects ; What fhall we do " with the Fishes and Reptiles ; What can we " with ( 47 ) den, the very firft Sparrow that perceives her, ...
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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.