Scriptural & Philosophical Arguments, Or Cogent Proofs from Reason & Revelation that Brutes Have SoulsP. Buchan, 1824 - 120 pages |
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... superior to that from which they fell by man's transgression . They were man's companions in paradise in the days of his primitive innocence : they have shared with him the bread of bitterness , and they have drunk with him of that cup ...
... superior to that from which they fell by man's transgression . They were man's companions in paradise in the days of his primitive innocence : they have shared with him the bread of bitterness , and they have drunk with him of that cup ...
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... superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the vast creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike , Tenth , or ten thousandth , breaks ...
... superior pow'rs Were we to press , inferior might on ours ; Or in the vast creation leave a void , Where , one step broken , the great scale's destroy'd : From nature's chain whatever link you strike , Tenth , or ten thousandth , breaks ...
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... superior knowledge , & c . while many think themselves the favourites of their Creator by their being permitted to live an easy life , and to feast sumptuously every day , while many others , their superiors in wisdom and goodness , are ...
... superior knowledge , & c . while many think themselves the favourites of their Creator by their being permitted to live an easy life , and to feast sumptuously every day , while many others , their superiors in wisdom and goodness , are ...
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... superior , nor entitled to rule over them . They shook off his arbi- trary yoke took the government of their actions under their own management , and viewed him only as a tyrant and imposter . From this mortifying change taking place ...
... superior , nor entitled to rule over them . They shook off his arbi- trary yoke took the government of their actions under their own management , and viewed him only as a tyrant and imposter . From this mortifying change taking place ...
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... superior to its strength ; his master , with sar- castic tone , bid the keeper take away the lazy beast , and bring another ; the poor animal instantly repeated his efforts , fractured his scull , and died on the spot . As to the ...
... superior to its strength ; his master , with sar- castic tone , bid the keeper take away the lazy beast , and bring another ; the poor animal instantly repeated his efforts , fractured his scull , and died on the spot . As to the ...
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Page 21 - And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you ; and with every living creature that Is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you ; 15 from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.
Page 96 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Page 18 - Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat.
Page 24 - Nor think in Nature's state they blindly trod ; The state of Nature was the reign of God. Self-love and social at her birth began, Union the bond of all things, and of man ; Pride then was not, nor arts that pride to aid ; Man walk'd with beast, joint tenant of the shade ; The same his table, and the same his bed ; No murder cloth'd him, and no murder fed.
Page 21 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 30 - Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives and what denies ? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass ! What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme!
Page 20 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page xxviii - And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not: and let fall also some of the handfuls of purpose for her, and leave them, that she may glean them, and rebuke her not.
Page 23 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 23 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.