Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1C. Rivington, 1754 |
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... means fo to your Friends , who know and admire the shining Talents , the indefatigable Application , the engaging Address , and extenfive Benevolence , by which you stand eminently distinguished among all true Lovers of Mankind . Who ...
... means fo to your Friends , who know and admire the shining Talents , the indefatigable Application , the engaging Address , and extenfive Benevolence , by which you stand eminently distinguished among all true Lovers of Mankind . Who ...
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... means , affect our Cafe ; that we are not yet formed into a regular Society , and therefore have no direct Scheme to purfue ; that we are all upon the Of- fenfive ; our Bufinefs is only to demolish and destroy ; and that very little ...
... means , affect our Cafe ; that we are not yet formed into a regular Society , and therefore have no direct Scheme to purfue ; that we are all upon the Of- fenfive ; our Bufinefs is only to demolish and destroy ; and that very little ...
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... means ; they are all heartily wel- come ; the more the merrier ; defendet numerus . ftill , methinks , I would have them all under proper Regulations , that every Man fhould know his Rank and Poft , and be employed in fuch Offices , and ...
... means ; they are all heartily wel- come ; the more the merrier ; defendet numerus . ftill , methinks , I would have them all under proper Regulations , that every Man fhould know his Rank and Poft , and be employed in fuch Offices , and ...
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... mean only as to the political Interefts of the Society . The Quakers , ( if I am not misinformed ) befides their weekly Meetings , have their quarterly Meetings of Deputies from their feveral Congregations , within fuch particular ...
... mean only as to the political Interefts of the Society . The Quakers , ( if I am not misinformed ) befides their weekly Meetings , have their quarterly Meetings of Deputies from their feveral Congregations , within fuch particular ...
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... means think a proper Place , though Custom has made it the very Center of Business and Correfpon- dence ; yet forafmuch as we are in a particular Way of Thinking , and owe no Reverence to the Fashions . and Opinions of others , but only ...
... means think a proper Place , though Custom has made it the very Center of Business and Correfpon- dence ; yet forafmuch as we are in a particular Way of Thinking , and owe no Reverence to the Fashions . and Opinions of others , but only ...
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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.