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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... moving Principle in every one of them . As this Thought was quite new to me , and perfectly oppofite to all the Senti- ments I had ever entertained upon that Quef- tion , I could not for my life imagine , where he had pick'd up this new ...
... moving Principle in every one of them . As this Thought was quite new to me , and perfectly oppofite to all the Senti- ments I had ever entertained upon that Quef- tion , I could not for my life imagine , where he had pick'd up this new ...
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... called . : The most obvious Idea we have of Matter , is of an extended impenetrable , folid Subftance , un- capable of moving itself , or of being moved , but by " by the Agency and Impreffion of fome fuperior , ( 16 )
... called . : The most obvious Idea we have of Matter , is of an extended impenetrable , folid Subftance , un- capable of moving itself , or of being moved , but by " by the Agency and Impreffion of fome fuperior , ( 16 )
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... moving Subftance ; from whence it follows , that all Gravity , At- traction , Elafticity , Repulfion , and whatever Tendencies to Motion are obferved in Matter , and commonly called natural Powers of Matter , are not Powers implanted in ...
... moving Subftance ; from whence it follows , that all Gravity , At- traction , Elafticity , Repulfion , and whatever Tendencies to Motion are obferved in Matter , and commonly called natural Powers of Matter , are not Powers implanted in ...
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... moving . To fay the truth , his Zeal to fupport his Argument , and confound his Adverfary , has thrown him into fuch In- confiftencies of Thought and Expreffion , as could never have proceeded from cool and fo- ber Reason . For Inftance ...
... moving . To fay the truth , his Zeal to fupport his Argument , and confound his Adverfary , has thrown him into fuch In- confiftencies of Thought and Expreffion , as could never have proceeded from cool and fo- ber Reason . For Inftance ...
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... moving and transporting them- felves wherever they pleafe , according to " their Wants . Among Animals there are some " that fee and hear more or lefs perfectly ; but t yet they all hear and fee . It is the same thing " with the Faculty ...
... moving and transporting them- felves wherever they pleafe , according to " their Wants . Among Animals there are some " that fee and hear more or lefs perfectly ; but t yet they all hear and fee . It is the same thing " with the Faculty ...
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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.