Reflections Physical and Moral, Upon the Various and Numerous Uncommon Phenomena in the Air, Water, Or Earth, which Have Happened from the Earthquake at Lima, to the Present Time: In a Series of Familiar Letters from a Member of Parliament in Town to His Friend in the CountryA. Millar, 1756 - 60 pages |
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... Kind of Succeffion , juft as the later Philofophers thought they faw much clearer into the Nature of Things , and confe- quently fancied themselves much wifer than their Predeceffors . Thus the Ariftotelian feems to have triumph'd over ...
... Kind of Succeffion , juft as the later Philofophers thought they faw much clearer into the Nature of Things , and confe- quently fancied themselves much wifer than their Predeceffors . Thus the Ariftotelian feems to have triumph'd over ...
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... kind . You will naturally ask me , of what real Service therefore all their boafted Discoveries are to Mankind , with refpect to the prefent Subject ? I must here confefs myself at a Loss for an An- fwer . Nay , I am apt to think the ...
... kind . You will naturally ask me , of what real Service therefore all their boafted Discoveries are to Mankind , with refpect to the prefent Subject ? I must here confefs myself at a Loss for an An- fwer . Nay , I am apt to think the ...
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... kind of Reasoning , I cannot help thinking that we have need of an infinitely fuperior Philo- fophy to guide us in this Kind of Researches . The Philofophy I mean , as you are fenfible , can be no other than that of Mofes , The Mofaic ...
... kind of Reasoning , I cannot help thinking that we have need of an infinitely fuperior Philo- fophy to guide us in this Kind of Researches . The Philofophy I mean , as you are fenfible , can be no other than that of Mofes , The Mofaic ...
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... kind render'd much more unfit for Nutrition than they were at the Creation . If this was not the Cafe , to what End or Purpose did God grant Adam the abfolute Dominion over every Kind , and Species of Animals , Beasts , Birds , Fishes ...
... kind render'd much more unfit for Nutrition than they were at the Creation . If this was not the Cafe , to what End or Purpose did God grant Adam the abfolute Dominion over every Kind , and Species of Animals , Beasts , Birds , Fishes ...
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... Weafels , & c . are frequently found bit or torn on one Side of the Neck , and the Blood only fuck'd out , whilft the Flesh of the Bird was left untouch'd . Of 1 Of the largest Kind of these ferocious Animals , I [ 40 ]
... Weafels , & c . are frequently found bit or torn on one Side of the Neck , and the Blood only fuck'd out , whilft the Flesh of the Bird was left untouch'd . Of 1 Of the largest Kind of these ferocious Animals , I [ 40 ]
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abfolute Adamah Æther affign'd againſt almoſt alſo Animals arifing Atoms or Particles becauſe beſt Blood call'd Cauſe commanded Commotions compleated confequently confifted conftantly Creatures Crime Darkneſs Deep deſcribed Divine dreadful Earth Earthquake employ'd facred Writings fame feems felves fhall fhould Fiffures fill'd final Doom fince Fire firft firſt Fluid fmall fome fometimes Food form'd Formation ftill ftrongly fuch Hebrew Hebrew Language Hiſtory Idolatry immenfe inferior Agents Inftance juft juſt Kind laft laſt leaſt Light Lisbon Mankind Maſs Meaſure Mofaic Mofes moft Moral Caufe moſt muft muſt Nations Nature niſhing Number obferv'd obferve Occafion Paffages Paffion Perfons Philofophy phyfical plainly poffibly Power Precept prefent produc'd proper Puniſhment Purpoſe quake quently Reafon receiv'd REFLECTIONS PHYSICAL refpective reft Religion Reſearches Ruabb Ruabh Ruahh ſeems Senfe ſhall Sodom Spirit Strata Tebom terrible thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion Univerſe us'd Uſe vaft Vapours various Waters whilft whofe whole Worship
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Page 38 - And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood ; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Page 38 - For the life or soul of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given.it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls : for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Page 50 - Take ye therefore good heed unto yourfelves, (for ye faw no manner of fimilitude on the day that the Lord fpake unto you in Horeb out of the midft of the fire,} Left ye corrupt yourfelves, and make you a graven image, the fimilitude of any figure, the likenefs of male or female...
Page 47 - Tortures, which the Wit or Malice of their diabolical Tormentors could invent, are they not...
Page 26 - God fays, 1, even I do bring a Flood cf Waters upon the Earth to deftroy all FUJh.
Page 47 - And were not thofe infernal Sacrifices always attended with the whole Parade of Ceremonies generally us'd in the...