Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1C. Rivington, 1754 - Deism |
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... produced another lucky Confequence , which cannot fail , one time or other , of turning out greatly to our Advantage . Several of the younger and more polite Clergy , who are Candidates for Fame or Promotion , or both , and find that ...
... produced another lucky Confequence , which cannot fail , one time or other , of turning out greatly to our Advantage . Several of the younger and more polite Clergy , who are Candidates for Fame or Promotion , or both , and find that ...
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... producing fuch Effects as you and I could wifh , which can never be produced by the prefent undifciplined giddy Meafures of our Free - thinking Brethren . But This abfurd Conduct has done us unfpeakable Mif- chief , and fo prejudiced ...
... producing fuch Effects as you and I could wifh , which can never be produced by the prefent undifciplined giddy Meafures of our Free - thinking Brethren . But This abfurd Conduct has done us unfpeakable Mif- chief , and fo prejudiced ...
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... produced a great Variety of Offices , Pofts , and Employments , with large Endowments , fine Salaries , and unknown Perquifites , which they have cunningly divided among their own Party ; whom they affirm to be the only Persons duly ...
... produced a great Variety of Offices , Pofts , and Employments , with large Endowments , fine Salaries , and unknown Perquifites , which they have cunningly divided among their own Party ; whom they affirm to be the only Persons duly ...
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... produce his Reasons . The young Orator was a little confounded at this pedantic ungentleman - like , Behaviour ; and indeed , the whole Company thought themselves bound in honour to re- fent fuch an outragious Breach of good Manners ...
... produce his Reasons . The young Orator was a little confounded at this pedantic ungentleman - like , Behaviour ; and indeed , the whole Company thought themselves bound in honour to re- fent fuch an outragious Breach of good Manners ...
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... produce them ; for fo malicious and par- tial are our Adverfaries , that they infift upon having our Reafons and Arguments weighed and measured by their Standard , in which they are fure to have the Ad- vantage ; and because we do not ...
... produce them ; for fo malicious and par- tial are our Adverfaries , that they infift upon having our Reafons and Arguments weighed and measured by their Standard , in which they are fure to have the Ad- vantage ; and because we do not ...
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Page 225 - 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 221 - 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.
Page 257 - I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
Page 221 - 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 230 - 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 168 - 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 222 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 221 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 207 - 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.
Page 275 - I may be confident, that whoever should see a creature of his own shape and make, though it had no more reason all its life than a cat or a parrot, would call him still a man ; or whoever should hear a cat or a parrot discourse, reason and philosophize, would call or think it nothing but a cat or a parrot ; and say, the one was a dull irrational man, and the other a very intelligent rational parrot.