Scriptural & Philosophical Arguments, Or Cogent Proofs from Reason & Revelation that Brutes Have SoulsP. Buchan, 1824 - 120 pages |
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... speak , he lifts the chilly hand , expiring in death , and beckons silence from the friendly group , who weeps their de- parting friend . But Oh ! the cries , the tears , the unfeigned tears , that run in torrents down the spotless ...
... speak , he lifts the chilly hand , expiring in death , and beckons silence from the friendly group , who weeps their de- parting friend . But Oh ! the cries , the tears , the unfeigned tears , that run in torrents down the spotless ...
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... speak evil of no man . Despise the whinging and flattering caresses of the hateful sycophant ; for he who stoops to such meanness has a design upon your person or fortune . - Honesty is the best policy . Be not swayed in your judgment ...
... speak evil of no man . Despise the whinging and flattering caresses of the hateful sycophant ; for he who stoops to such meanness has a design upon your person or fortune . - Honesty is the best policy . Be not swayed in your judgment ...
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... speak- ing of this most important part of our exis- tence . The Stoicks count it a spark of heavenly light which effulges from the ence of GOD . But the Cartesians make thinking the essence of the soul ; and Xen- ocrates , as we are ...
... speak- ing of this most important part of our exis- tence . The Stoicks count it a spark of heavenly light which effulges from the ence of GOD . But the Cartesians make thinking the essence of the soul ; and Xen- ocrates , as we are ...
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... speak- ing of Reason , " It is the common gift of God to all men , though all are not favoured with it by nature in an equal degree ; but the acquired improvements of it in different men , make a much greater distinction be- tween them ...
... speak- ing of Reason , " It is the common gift of God to all men , though all are not favoured with it by nature in an equal degree ; but the acquired improvements of it in different men , make a much greater distinction be- tween them ...
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... speaking ) of punishment . Thus our ideas of justice com- pel us to judge : reward is due to any being that suffers undeservingly ; though it be not a moral agent : but punishment can belong only to moral agents , whose crimes deserve ...
... speaking ) of punishment . Thus our ideas of justice com- pel us to judge : reward is due to any being that suffers undeservingly ; though it be not a moral agent : but punishment can belong only to moral agents , whose crimes deserve ...
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Page 98 - 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 120 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts ; even one thing befalleth them : as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath ; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast : for all is vanity. All go unto one place ; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 21 - For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. I know all the fowls of the mountains; and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Page 32 - 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 24 - Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest : that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Page 25 - 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.
Page 33 - Vast chain of being ! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 27 - His hinder parts, then springs as broke from bonds, And rampant shakes his brinded mane; the ounce, The libbard, and the tiger, as the mole Rising, the crumbled earth above them threw In hillocks: The swift stag from under ground...
Page 32 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high, progressive life may go!
Page 20 - 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: and it was so.