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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... Question , which I was fure he had not Capacity enough to understand . I fee , and hear , and admire his modeft Affu- rance , uncapable of Contradiction , affirming without Proof , and concluding without Premi- fes , that all the Animal ...
... Question , which I was fure he had not Capacity enough to understand . I fee , and hear , and admire his modeft Affu- rance , uncapable of Contradiction , affirming without Proof , and concluding without Premi- fes , that all the Animal ...
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... Question : farely prefuming she would answer in the Affirmative , and as I dare venture to affirm that his fair Correspondent had not a better Understanding than mine , I will venture to pre- fume the fame for you . An Understanding ...
... Question : farely prefuming she would answer in the Affirmative , and as I dare venture to affirm that his fair Correspondent had not a better Understanding than mine , I will venture to pre- fume the fame for you . An Understanding ...
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... Question to him : I dare fay he would ftare at you , and think you were bantering him ; or if he thought you were in earnest , he would not fo much as de- mur upon it . In fhort , however we may af- fect to puzzle ourselves or others ...
... Question to him : I dare fay he would ftare at you , and think you were bantering him ; or if he thought you were in earnest , he would not fo much as de- mur upon it . In fhort , however we may af- fect to puzzle ourselves or others ...
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... Question I propofed to con- fider , which was , the Neceffity of fome Lan- guage , fome Means of communicating the Sen- timents , Wants , Inclinations , and Defires of the Individuals of every Society and Family , in order to confult ...
... Question I propofed to con- fider , which was , the Neceffity of fome Lan- guage , fome Means of communicating the Sen- timents , Wants , Inclinations , and Defires of the Individuals of every Society and Family , in order to confult ...
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... Question ; for if it be " abfolutely impoffible for Beasts to perform " these Actions without fpeaking , we are more- over obliged to conclude , that they have a Faculty of fpeaking to each other . Now , Madam , I would beg of you here ...
... Question ; for if it be " abfolutely impoffible for Beasts to perform " these Actions without fpeaking , we are more- over obliged to conclude , that they have a Faculty of fpeaking to each other . Now , Madam , I would beg of you here ...
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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.