Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1C. Rivington, 1754 - Deism |
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... tell you , is a very useful Exercise , which I have seen played off more than once with very good Effect . We were fome of us not long ago at Lord W's Table , where my little Captain is allowed the Liberty of talking his own Way ...
... tell you , is a very useful Exercise , which I have seen played off more than once with very good Effect . We were fome of us not long ago at Lord W's Table , where my little Captain is allowed the Liberty of talking his own Way ...
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... tell me when I am hungry or thirsty , or full , at Eafe or in Pain , in Sick- nefs or in Health ; be fure it was fo among the Primi- tive Inhabitants of the World , long before these plaguy Syftems , with their Definitions , Axioms ...
... tell me when I am hungry or thirsty , or full , at Eafe or in Pain , in Sick- nefs or in Health ; be fure it was fo among the Primi- tive Inhabitants of the World , long before these plaguy Syftems , with their Definitions , Axioms ...
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... tell us , that our Reafons are sophisticated , our Arguments are all damaged Goods , and not worth Two - pence a Thoufand . This is an amazing Piece of Hardship to us , and Partiality in them ; they have engroffed all the Arms and Am ...
... tell us , that our Reafons are sophisticated , our Arguments are all damaged Goods , and not worth Two - pence a Thoufand . This is an amazing Piece of Hardship to us , and Partiality in them ; they have engroffed all the Arms and Am ...
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... those who worship him not . Nay , more than this , the apparent Advantage is on our Side of the Question . Pray , tell me , what is there to be got got in this World purely by being good ? but 32 An Effay for the better Regulation.
... those who worship him not . Nay , more than this , the apparent Advantage is on our Side of the Question . Pray , tell me , what is there to be got got in this World purely by being good ? but 32 An Effay for the better Regulation.
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... telling an Eclipfe , frightened the mutinous Natives . into Submiffion and Slavery ; they imagined the hea- venly Bodies were at his Command , and under his Direction , and that therefore it would be vain and prefumptuous in them to ...
... telling an Eclipfe , frightened the mutinous Natives . into Submiffion and Slavery ; they imagined the hea- venly Bodies were at his Command , and under his Direction , and that therefore it would be vain and prefumptuous in them to ...
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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.