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Plurilith their range or flight , they efpy a beast or bird worn out with age , or with a
leg or wing by accident broken , or forsaken by his dam , unable to help himself ,
or any way rendered incapable of getting his own food ; GOD , the Father of ...
Plurilith their range or flight , they efpy a beast or bird worn out with age , or with a
leg or wing by accident broken , or forsaken by his dam , unable to help himself ,
or any way rendered incapable of getting his own food ; GOD , the Father of ...
Page 270
A Fly has feeling as well as an Ox ; and a Toad has as much right to happiness
as a Canary Bird : for the same GOD made the Ox , and the Fly , and the Toad ,
and the Bird . It is true , we have an aversion to some creatures , and we are
better ...
A Fly has feeling as well as an Ox ; and a Toad has as much right to happiness
as a Canary Bird : for the same GOD made the Ox , and the Fly , and the Toad ,
and the Bird . It is true , we have an aversion to some creatures , and we are
better ...
Page 271
If a BIRD ' S NEST chance to be before thee in the way in any tree , or on the
ground , whether then be Young Ones or Eggs , and the DAM fitting upon the
Young , or upon the Eggs ; Thou shalt not take the DAM with the Young , but thou
shalt ...
If a BIRD ' S NEST chance to be before thee in the way in any tree , or on the
ground , whether then be Young Ones or Eggs , and the DAM fitting upon the
Young , or upon the Eggs ; Thou shalt not take the DAM with the Young , but thou
shalt ...
Page 272
The Goodness and Condescension of the great Creator in this seemingly trifling
instance of a BIRD ' S NEST is so remarkably displayed ; and our attention to the
Law , and our compassion to the distressed Bird , is enforced with the promise of
...
The Goodness and Condescension of the great Creator in this seemingly trifling
instance of a BIRD ' S NEST is so remarkably displayed ; and our attention to the
Law , and our compassion to the distressed Bird , is enforced with the promise of
...
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... only because he had been observed in his youth to take pleasure in Tearing
and Murder' ing of Birds ; and of another that expelled a Man out of the • Senate ,
for Dashing a Bird " against the Ground , which had taken shelter in his Bosom .
... only because he had been observed in his youth to take pleasure in Tearing
and Murder' ing of Birds ; and of another that expelled a Man out of the • Senate ,
for Dashing a Bird " against the Ground , which had taken shelter in his Bosom .
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Page 248 - Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man.
Page 88 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 117 - O give thanks unto the God of heaven : for his mercy endureth for ever.
Page 98 - And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat :
Page 165 - Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Page 168 - For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn.
Page 87 - 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 184 - The lord then answered him, and said Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the Sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead him away to watering?
Page 315 - I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud: 15 and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 310 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark...
Bibliographic information
| Title | A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruely to Brute Animals |
| Author | Humphrey Primatt |
| Publisher | T. Cadell, 1776 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Jul 2006 |
| Length | 326 pages |
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