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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... better Logic than many a stupid Puppy with two Legs , who lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy , without Thought or Reflection , and rushes ...
... better Logic than many a stupid Puppy with two Legs , who lives at random , who pur- fues every appearance of Pleasure , gratifies every Appetite , fubmits to every demand of Luft or Fancy , without Thought or Reflection , and rushes ...
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... better Materials to work upon . He has very juftly exploded the No- tion of innate Ideas , and has by confequence left us nothing but those which we receive by Sen- fation , to be the Ground - work of our most re- fined Speculations ...
... better Materials to work upon . He has very juftly exploded the No- tion of innate Ideas , and has by confequence left us nothing but those which we receive by Sen- fation , to be the Ground - work of our most re- fined Speculations ...
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... better understanding the Neceffity of this Communication , let us take a nearer View of those particular Families among the Beafts , Birds , and Infects , that feem moft to want and to ufe it , thofe I mean that live I and ( 23 ) pofe ...
... better understanding the Neceffity of this Communication , let us take a nearer View of those particular Families among the Beafts , Birds , and Infects , that feem moft to want and to ufe it , thofe I mean that live I and ( 23 ) pofe ...
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... But these popular Societies are very rare , because they are too unmanage- " able and tumultuous , and the Beavers are " generally better acquainted with their own " Interests . 16 cr Interefts . They affociate to the number of ( 28 )
... But these popular Societies are very rare , because they are too unmanage- " able and tumultuous , and the Beavers are " generally better acquainted with their own " Interests . 16 cr Interefts . They affociate to the number of ( 28 )
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... better draw out what Quantity they want , " and always take the Parcel at the bottom , " which lies in the Water : they cut this Wood " into small Particles , and convey it to their 46 KC « < Cells , where the whole Family come to re ...
... better draw out what Quantity they want , " and always take the Parcel at the bottom , " which lies in the Water : they cut this Wood " into small Particles , and convey it to their 46 KC « < Cells , where the whole Family come to re ...
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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.