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... world to affert and maintain the Cartefian Opinion of their being Machines , there is fome strong inward Conviction in every fenfible unprejudiced Mind that gives them the lye , tho ' we were not able to confute their Affertion , nor ...
... world to affert and maintain the Cartefian Opinion of their being Machines , there is fome strong inward Conviction in every fenfible unprejudiced Mind that gives them the lye , tho ' we were not able to confute their Affertion , nor ...
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... World ? Ay ! and when we are difpleafed or angry , we can as eafily make ourselves under- ftood by Looks and Gestures , as by the plaineft and moft expreffive Language . How often have I feen those lovely Eyes of yours rebuking , with ...
... World ? Ay ! and when we are difpleafed or angry , we can as eafily make ourselves under- ftood by Looks and Gestures , as by the plaineft and moft expreffive Language . How often have I feen those lovely Eyes of yours rebuking , with ...
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... World two Faces perfectly alike ; " but yet all Men have a Face . There are among the feveral Species of Animals Diffe- " rences ftill greater : fome have Wings , others " have Fins , fome Feet and Legs ; the Serpents " have none of ...
... World two Faces perfectly alike ; " but yet all Men have a Face . There are among the feveral Species of Animals Diffe- " rences ftill greater : fome have Wings , others " have Fins , fome Feet and Legs ; the Serpents " have none of ...
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... World , to ferve the Defigns of his Providence , and make his Omnipotence to appear . Some continuing in their natural State , bufy themselves in tempting Men , in feducing and tor- menting them , either immediately , as Job's De- vil ...
... World , to ferve the Defigns of his Providence , and make his Omnipotence to appear . Some continuing in their natural State , bufy themselves in tempting Men , in feducing and tor- menting them , either immediately , as Job's De- vil ...
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... World originally created for Order and Juftice to reign in ? This is in good part what formerly perfuaded the Manicheans , that there were of neceffity two Orders of Things , one good , good , and the other bad ; and that Beafts ( 60 ) .
... World originally created for Order and Juftice to reign in ? This is in good part what formerly perfuaded the Manicheans , that there were of neceffity two Orders of Things , one good , good , and the other bad ; and that Beafts ( 60 ) .
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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.