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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... purposes which it is intended to ferve . They who use it , do not pretend to define it , to fhew us its real Nature , or wherein it confifts , they feem only to speak of it as a blind Impetus , and unknown Impulfe ; a kind of Mechanical ...
... purposes which it is intended to ferve . They who use it , do not pretend to define it , to fhew us its real Nature , or wherein it confifts , they feem only to speak of it as a blind Impetus , and unknown Impulfe ; a kind of Mechanical ...
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... purposes of its Creation ? He that can think other- wife , must have been either a very ignorant or a very indolent Observer of Nature . The Scrip- tures directly call this Knowledge by the name of Wisdom , Prov . xxx . 24. There be ...
... purposes of its Creation ? He that can think other- wife , must have been either a very ignorant or a very indolent Observer of Nature . The Scrip- tures directly call this Knowledge by the name of Wisdom , Prov . xxx . 24. There be ...
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... Purposes of their Creation . A Reafon not fuperiour to that of Man , because the Reafon of Man is vaft and comprehenfive , taking in the whole Compass of Nature , looking forwards and backwards into Eternity ; whereas the Sphere of ...
... Purposes of their Creation . A Reafon not fuperiour to that of Man , because the Reafon of Man is vaft and comprehenfive , taking in the whole Compass of Nature , looking forwards and backwards into Eternity ; whereas the Sphere of ...
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... Purposes of infinite Wisdom in their Creation , the Relation they bear , and the harmonious Proportion they stand in to the uni- verfal System , it would afford us infinite mat- ter of Astonishment and Surprize , as well as of religious ...
... Purposes of infinite Wisdom in their Creation , the Relation they bear , and the harmonious Proportion they stand in to the uni- verfal System , it would afford us infinite mat- ter of Astonishment and Surprize , as well as of religious ...
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... purpose are provided with Shuttles , and Clues of Thread . There are fome who build in Wood , and are therefore fup- plied with two Bills for cutting their Timber . Others make Wax , and have their Shops furnish'd with Rakers , Ladles ...
... purpose are provided with Shuttles , and Clues of Thread . There are fome who build in Wood , and are therefore fup- plied with two Bills for cutting their Timber . Others make Wax , and have their Shops furnish'd with Rakers , Ladles ...
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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.