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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... use of his intellec tual Faculties , he therefore attempts a nearer cut to Fame , by engaging the Attention of the Un- learned to fomething that has a new and mar vellous Appearance : This has given him an itch after Novelty , and an ...
... use of his intellec tual Faculties , he therefore attempts a nearer cut to Fame , by engaging the Attention of the Un- learned to fomething that has a new and mar vellous Appearance : This has given him an itch after Novelty , and an ...
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... 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 Neceffity , by which we are in a manner compelled ...
... 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 Neceffity , by which we are in a manner compelled ...
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... uses " L to beftow on all nor could I think , with- out a kind of philofophical Melancholy , " that she had doomed to eternal Silence , in- ડર્ટ numerable Nations , which inhabit the Im- menfity of the Seas and Rivers . Silence is ...
... uses " L to beftow on all nor could I think , with- out a kind of philofophical Melancholy , " that she had doomed to eternal Silence , in- ડર્ટ numerable Nations , which inhabit the Im- menfity of the Seas and Rivers . Silence is ...
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... Uses of Man , which fill the Univerfe , and caufe the Wisdom and Omnipotence of the Creator to be admired : By that means I can ea fily conceive bow , on the one hand , the Devils can tempt us ; and on the other , how Beafts can think ...
... Uses of Man , which fill the Univerfe , and caufe the Wisdom and Omnipotence of the Creator to be admired : By that means I can ea fily conceive bow , on the one hand , the Devils can tempt us ; and on the other , how Beafts can think ...
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... use of two or three Libertine Books , two or three Cant- words , and two or three Common - place Jokes , upon Parfons , Prieft - craft , and Superftition ; and I would defy their united Misunderstand- ings in fix Weeks time to produce ...
... use of two or three Libertine Books , two or three Cant- words , and two or three Common - place Jokes , upon Parfons , Prieft - craft , and Superftition ; and I would defy their united Misunderstand- ings in fix Weeks time to produce ...
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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.