Miscellaneous Works, Volume 1C. Rivington, 1754 |
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Pagina 66
... Views . Though he does me the Honour to claim Kindred with me , I never had the Pleafure of being perfonally known to him . The Efteem and Concern which I have for him , proceed folely from a generous Regard to his great Merit , and an ...
... Views . Though he does me the Honour to claim Kindred with me , I never had the Pleafure of being perfonally known to him . The Efteem and Concern which I have for him , proceed folely from a generous Regard to his great Merit , and an ...
Pagina 69
... Views aimed at in erecting and filling these Pofts , when they are freely beftowed as the Rewards of fuperior Merit , and are executed with Fidelity and Courage , they are then really and trulyPofts of Honour ; but if they be only ...
... Views aimed at in erecting and filling these Pofts , when they are freely beftowed as the Rewards of fuperior Merit , and are executed with Fidelity and Courage , they are then really and trulyPofts of Honour ; but if they be only ...
Pagina 85
... Views , and generous Defigns , it en- deavours to enter into the true Nature of Things , to confider the true State of every momentous Question in a juft Light , to procure all poffible Means and Affiftance to form a right Judgment upon ...
... Views , and generous Defigns , it en- deavours to enter into the true Nature of Things , to confider the true State of every momentous Question in a juft Light , to procure all poffible Means and Affiftance to form a right Judgment upon ...
Pagina 87
... Views , narrow Apprehensions , and a poor Understanding ; whom , without Breach of Cha- rity , or good Manners , we may venture to pro- nounce , as the Royal Pfalmift does , A FOOL . The Man that allows the Exiftence of fuch a PERFECT ...
... Views , narrow Apprehensions , and a poor Understanding ; whom , without Breach of Cha- rity , or good Manners , we may venture to pro- nounce , as the Royal Pfalmift does , A FOOL . The Man that allows the Exiftence of fuch a PERFECT ...
Pagina 88
... Views ; which , to an ignorant Mind , that confiders not the Relation it bears to the rest of the System , may appear infignificant or irregular . Mr. Addison . has very prettily compared one of thefe Minute Philo- fophers to a Fly upon ...
... Views ; which , to an ignorant Mind , that confiders not the Relation it bears to the rest of the System , may appear infignificant or irregular . Mr. Addison . has very prettily compared one of thefe Minute Philo- fophers to a Fly upon ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 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 :
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.