Insecto-theology: Or, a Demonstration of the Being and Perfections of God, from a Consideration of the Structure and Economy of Insects. Illustrated with a Copperplate. By M. Lesser: with Notes, by P. LyonetWilliam Creech; and T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, London, 1799 - 439 pages |
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... furnished it with a weapon , and as if this inftrument , though al- moft imperceptible , was capable of variety of forms , fhe has beftowed on it a fharp point , and has hollowed it , that it might ferve as an inftrument for piercing ...
... furnished it with a weapon , and as if this inftrument , though al- moft imperceptible , was capable of variety of forms , fhe has beftowed on it a fharp point , and has hollowed it , that it might ferve as an inftrument for piercing ...
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... furnish their prin- cipal food , I cannot enough admire the accuracy with which the delineates thofe infects in their different ftates ; and her talent of prefenting to the eye , the variety which nature has eftablished in the mixture ...
... furnish their prin- cipal food , I cannot enough admire the accuracy with which the delineates thofe infects in their different ftates ; and her talent of prefenting to the eye , the variety which nature has eftablished in the mixture ...
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... furnish an ample field for exercifing the industry and fagacity of the curious . The fubject is inexhauftible , every day furnishes us with fomething new ; and he who thinks he has made great proficiency , will receive information from ...
... furnish an ample field for exercifing the industry and fagacity of the curious . The fubject is inexhauftible , every day furnishes us with fomething new ; and he who thinks he has made great proficiency , will receive information from ...
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... furnished with bones like other animals , nor indeed have they any occafion for fuch . Let large and hea- vy bodies enjoy thefe for the purpofe of fupporting their mafs of flesh , and of preventing them from finking under their burthen ...
... furnished with bones like other animals , nor indeed have they any occafion for fuch . Let large and hea- vy bodies enjoy thefe for the purpofe of fupporting their mafs of flesh , and of preventing them from finking under their burthen ...
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... furnished with . The legs are wanting to fome , the wings to thers ; perhaps they may have fomething lefs al- fo , or fomething more in their vifcera ; but from thence it does not follow that their bodies are imperfect as fome ...
... furnished with . The legs are wanting to fome , the wings to thers ; perhaps they may have fomething lefs al- fo , or fomething more in their vifcera ; but from thence it does not follow that their bodies are imperfect as fome ...
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Page 49 - Kings of the earth, and all people ; Princes, and all judges of the earth : Both young men, and maidens ; Old men, and children: Let them praise the name of the LORD: For his name alone is excellent; His glory is above the earth and heaven.
Page 257 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and CHANGED the glory of the uncorruptible God into AN IMAGE made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Page 73 - 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 273 - Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you. Now therefore forgive, I pray thee, my sin only this once, and intreat the LORD your God, that he may take away from me this death only.
Page 277 - And the people gave a shout, saying : — " It is the voice of a god, and not of a man." And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory : and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 73 - They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
Page 273 - Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
Page 273 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 268 - And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
Page 273 - Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold, a feast unto the LORD.