Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 strán (strany) |
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... animals . It is true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey ...
... animals . It is true that all of them seem to be aware of the part in their struc- ture , where lie their main strength and means of hostility . Thus the bull attacks with his horns , and the horse with his heels , the beast of prey ...
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... animal . The first is , his proneness to ascribe hostility or benevolent inten- tion to every thing of a memorable sort that occurs to him in the order of nature . The second is that of which I have just treated , the superior dignity ...
... animal . The first is , his proneness to ascribe hostility or benevolent inten- tion to every thing of a memorable sort that occurs to him in the order of nature . The second is that of which I have just treated , the superior dignity ...
Strana 24
... animal or vegetable kingdom , fall into classes . It is by this means , that the child no sooner learns the terms , man , horse , tree , flower , than , if an object of any of these kinds which he has never seen before , is ex- hibited ...
... animal or vegetable kingdom , fall into classes . It is by this means , that the child no sooner learns the terms , man , horse , tree , flower , than , if an object of any of these kinds which he has never seen before , is ex- hibited ...
Strana 52
... animal frame . If this position be true , we have only to bear it in mind , feelingly to convince ourselves , how wholesale the error is into which society has hitherto fallen in the destination of its members , and how much yet re ...
... animal frame . If this position be true , we have only to bear it in mind , feelingly to convince ourselves , how wholesale the error is into which society has hitherto fallen in the destination of its members , and how much yet re ...
Strana 73
... animals have but one object in view in their more considerable actions , the supply of the humbler accommodations of their nature . Man has a power sufficient for the accomplishment of this object , and a residue of power beyond , which ...
... animals have but one object in view in their more considerable actions , the supply of the humbler accommodations of their nature . Man has a power sufficient for the accomplishment of this object , and a residue of power beyond , which ...
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