Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1C. Rivington, 1754 |
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... given no Interruption to this Conversation ; you had not escaped fo , had it happened in any other Place ; but I hold it to be an essential Point of good Breed- ing not to contradict any Gentleman in my own Houfe . But notwithstanding ...
... given no Interruption to this Conversation ; you had not escaped fo , had it happened in any other Place ; but I hold it to be an essential Point of good Breed- ing not to contradict any Gentleman in my own Houfe . But notwithstanding ...
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... given me an incurable Averfion to these bloody - minded Crusado Chriftians , who are for running a Man through the Body , in order to fave his Soul . What then must be done ! Why the Malady points out the Remedy , the Difeafe directs us ...
... given me an incurable Averfion to these bloody - minded Crusado Chriftians , who are for running a Man through the Body , in order to fave his Soul . What then must be done ! Why the Malady points out the Remedy , the Difeafe directs us ...
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... given him by his refpective Superiors and Directors . And here , to avoid Confufion , I should propofe that the whole Body fhould be divided into three general Ranks , Claffes , or Degrees , which was the ancient Establishment , even in ...
... given him by his refpective Superiors and Directors . And here , to avoid Confufion , I should propofe that the whole Body fhould be divided into three general Ranks , Claffes , or Degrees , which was the ancient Establishment , even in ...
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... given us an admirable Descrip- . tion of one of this Clafs in the Character of Perithous , in his Difpute with Achelous . a He defcribes him as a Man of a fierce Temper , that neither feared the Gods , nor regarded Men , and therefore ...
... given us an admirable Descrip- . tion of one of this Clafs in the Character of Perithous , in his Difpute with Achelous . a He defcribes him as a Man of a fierce Temper , that neither feared the Gods , nor regarded Men , and therefore ...
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... to reply , he proceeds , Don't you think , Doctor , that Adam was in a fine Situation , in a delightful Garden with the finest __ Woman Woman in the World What would you have given to and Improvement of Free - Thinking 25.
... to reply , he proceeds , Don't you think , Doctor , that Adam was in a fine Situation , in a delightful Garden with the finest __ Woman Woman in the World What would you have given to and Improvement of Free - Thinking 25.
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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.