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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... lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy , without Thought or Reflection , and rushes with his Eyes open into certain Diseases , Beg- gary and ...
... lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy , without Thought or Reflection , and rushes with his Eyes open into certain Diseases , Beg- gary and ...
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... live in fo ciety , as particularly Pigeons , Rooks , Swal- lows , and Storks among Birds ; Bees and Ants among Infects ; and particularly the Beavers among Beafts ; and no doubt but there muft be the fame among Fishes , thofe especially ...
... live in fo ciety , as particularly Pigeons , Rooks , Swal- lows , and Storks among Birds ; Bees and Ants among Infects ; and particularly the Beavers among Beafts ; and no doubt but there muft be the fame among Fishes , thofe especially ...
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... live in Society at large , and others . to live in a kind of domeftic Society , Male and Female cohabiting together , in a kind of Family , for the Education of their Young - ones . Now , do but confider what Ufe could the first Species ...
... live in Society at large , and others . to live in a kind of domeftic Society , Male and Female cohabiting together , in a kind of Family , for the Education of their Young - ones . Now , do but confider what Ufe could the first Species ...
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... live in So- ciety . Among the Beasts , we will particularly confider the Beaver , who for his fingular Saga- city , Patience , Industry , and Skill in Architec- ture , feems to excel all the quardruped Fami- ly . * The Beaver is a ...
... live in So- ciety . Among the Beasts , we will particularly confider the Beaver , who for his fingular Saga- city , Patience , Industry , and Skill in Architec- ture , feems to excel all the quardruped Fami- ly . * The Beaver is a ...
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... live , they throw themselves at a di- ftance from their Enemy ; and others by the Spring of their Hind - feet , whofe Elafticity im- mediately launches them out of the reach of Danger , and when they are deftitute of Force , Stratagem ...
... live , they throw themselves at a di- ftance from their Enemy ; and others by the Spring of their Hind - feet , whofe Elafticity im- mediately launches them out of the reach of Danger , and when they are deftitute of Force , Stratagem ...
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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.