Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation, Or, An Examination of Father Bougeant's Philosophical Amusement, &c: In Two Letters to a Lady ... |
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... Properties that are to be found in an Elephant . Hitherto it is not doubted but the Power of God may go ; but if we venture to go one Step further , and Jay , God may give to Matter Thought , Reafon , and Volition , as well as Senfe and ...
... Properties that are to be found in an Elephant . Hitherto it is not doubted but the Power of God may go ; but if we venture to go one Step further , and Jay , God may give to Matter Thought , Reafon , and Volition , as well as Senfe and ...
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... Properties of Matter , it will unavoida- bly follow , that all thofe Effects commonly af- cribed to certain natural Powers refiding in Mat- ter , are immediately produced by the Power of an immaterial Being , who first created this dead ...
... Properties of Matter , it will unavoida- bly follow , that all thofe Effects commonly af- cribed to certain natural Powers refiding in Mat- ter , are immediately produced by the Power of an immaterial Being , who first created this dead ...
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... various Kinds , Ranks , and Orders of the animal and vegetable World . By the first he was enabled to know the very central Natures , and most intimate Properties Properties and Powers of every Species , and to give ( 4 )
... various Kinds , Ranks , and Orders of the animal and vegetable World . By the first he was enabled to know the very central Natures , and most intimate Properties Properties and Powers of every Species , and to give ( 4 )
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In Two Letters to a Lady ... John Hildrop. Properties and Powers of every Species , and to give them fignificant Names , expreffive of their feveral Natures . Thus we read , Gen. ii . 19. And out of the Ground the Lord God formed every ...
In Two Letters to a Lady ... John Hildrop. Properties and Powers of every Species , and to give them fignificant Names , expreffive of their feveral Natures . Thus we read , Gen. ii . 19. And out of the Ground the Lord God formed every ...
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... the aftral World , confined as a Malefactor to a Prifon of his own making , to be fcourged and punished by the jarring discordant Properties of the di- С 2 vided vided Elements , to which he had voluntarily fubjected himself ( 11 )
... the aftral World , confined as a Malefactor to a Prifon of his own making , to be fcourged and punished by the jarring discordant Properties of the di- С 2 vided vided Elements , to which he had voluntarily fubjected himself ( 11 )
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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.