Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation, Or, An Examination of Father Bougeant's Philosophical Amusement, &c: In Two Letters to a Lady ...R. Minors, 1742 - 152 pages |
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... felves much better upon any Subject they un- dertake . He has treated a noble Subject loose- ly and fuperficially , to fay no worfe ; for I might add , idly and profanely ; and had I been his proper Superiour , I fhould have changed his ...
... felves much better upon any Subject they un- dertake . He has treated a noble Subject loose- ly and fuperficially , to fay no worfe ; for I might add , idly and profanely ; and had I been his proper Superiour , I fhould have changed his ...
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... felves Slaves or Neceffitous . On the contrary , they think themselves in perfect Freedom , " and perfect Affluence , as indeed they are : they are free , because they depend only upon " the Laws ; they are happy , because the Con ...
... felves Slaves or Neceffitous . On the contrary , they think themselves in perfect Freedom , " and perfect Affluence , as indeed they are : they are free , because they depend only upon " the Laws ; they are happy , because the Con ...
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... felves with Provifions . During the Summer " Season they regale themselves with all the " Fruits and Plants the Country produces . In " the Winter they eat the Wood of the Afh , " the . " the Plane , and other Trees , which ( 29 )
... felves with Provifions . During the Summer " Season they regale themselves with all the " Fruits and Plants the Country produces . In " the Winter they eat the Wood of the Afh , " the . " the Plane , and other Trees , which ( 29 )
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... felves wherever they pleafe , according to " their Wants . Among Animals there are some " that fee and hear more or lefs perfectly ; but t yet they all hear and fee . It is the same thing " with the Faculty of Speech : this Faculty ...
... felves wherever they pleafe , according to " their Wants . Among Animals there are some " that fee and hear more or lefs perfectly ; but t yet they all hear and fee . It is the same thing " with the Faculty of Speech : this Faculty ...
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... felves ? They all of them feem to be form- " ed upon the fame Model ? Some fly , others " fwim ; but flying and fwimming are one " and the fame Motion , the Difference is only " in the Element . We are told in the Book " of " of Genefis ...
... felves ? They all of them feem to be form- " ed upon the fame Model ? Some fly , others " fwim ; but flying and fwimming are one " and the fame Motion , the Difference is only " in the Element . We are told in the Book " of " of Genefis ...
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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.