The Works of the Late Reverend Mr. Robert Riccaltoun, Minister of the Gospel at Hobkirk, Volume 1A. Murray & J. Cochran, 1771 |
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... properly what we call life , we will find it just as much a fe- cret to us as the other ; known only , as it is fit it should be , to him who has life in himself . But weak and low as our notions of life are , it is from these that the ...
... properly what we call life , we will find it just as much a fe- cret to us as the other ; known only , as it is fit it should be , to him who has life in himself . But weak and low as our notions of life are , it is from these that the ...
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... proper nourishment , and propa- gating by their several seeds . Among animals , as the very lowest of them are by their fabrick and make sensibly distinguished from the most perfect of the vegetable kind , fo there is fomething pe ...
... proper nourishment , and propa- gating by their several seeds . Among animals , as the very lowest of them are by their fabrick and make sensibly distinguished from the most perfect of the vegetable kind , fo there is fomething pe ...
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... proper conceptions quite fail us ; and yet we cannot help imagi- ning there must be fomething analogous to , and fome way refembling , this , which we likewife call their nature or conftitu- tion , though we know not how to make a ...
... proper conceptions quite fail us ; and yet we cannot help imagi- ning there must be fomething analogous to , and fome way refembling , this , which we likewife call their nature or conftitu- tion , though we know not how to make a ...
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... proper care and tend- ing , one individual may be brought greatly to excel his fellows left in the wild . ftate of nature ; and fome kinds of animals more than others . Of all beings known to us , the human constitution admits of the ...
... proper care and tend- ing , one individual may be brought greatly to excel his fellows left in the wild . ftate of nature ; and fome kinds of animals more than others . Of all beings known to us , the human constitution admits of the ...
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... proper worth ; but efpe- cially in the relation they bear to the feve- ral orders of creatures , whofe happiness they are defigned to minifter to . In the first view , it is but a forry ac- count we can make of the feveral objects of ...
... proper worth ; but efpe- cially in the relation they bear to the feve- ral orders of creatures , whofe happiness they are defigned to minifter to . In the first view , it is but a forry ac- count we can make of the feveral objects of ...
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