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... drawn from considerations connected with the animals , and the place they occupy in the economy of the universe . Arguments from the nature of their life - From the benefits derived from them - From their sufferings having their origin ...
... drawn from considerations connected with the animals , and the place they occupy in the economy of the universe . Arguments from the nature of their life - From the benefits derived from them - From their sufferings having their origin ...
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... drawn from considerations connected with the reflex ef- fects of cruelty to animals upon those by whom it is perpetrated . Brief statement of the metaphysics and ethics of the subject - Declarations of Scripture regard- ing the ...
... drawn from considerations connected with the reflex ef- fects of cruelty to animals upon those by whom it is perpetrated . Brief statement of the metaphysics and ethics of the subject - Declarations of Scripture regard- ing the ...
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... drawn from nature or revelation , into these two classes ; first , external or objective ; and , second , internal or subjective . § 12. First , Of the external or the objective motives , drawn from considerations connected with the ...
... drawn from nature or revelation , into these two classes ; first , external or objective ; and , second , internal or subjective . § 12. First , Of the external or the objective motives , drawn from considerations connected with the ...
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... the power , and providence , and goodness of God ; so that from the study of their nature , and instincts , and habits , many an illustration of the Divine attributes , and many a lesson of knowledge and piety may be drawn . We 24.
... the power , and providence , and goodness of God ; so that from the study of their nature , and instincts , and habits , many an illustration of the Divine attributes , and many a lesson of knowledge and piety may be drawn . We 24.
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James Macaulay. lesson of knowledge and piety may be drawn . We may also learn from them 66 Many a good And useful quality , and virtue too , Rarely exemplified among ourselves ; Attachment never to be weaned or changed By any change of ...
James Macaulay. lesson of knowledge and piety may be drawn . We may also learn from them 66 Many a good And useful quality , and virtue too , Rarely exemplified among ourselves ; Attachment never to be weaned or changed By any change of ...
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anatomists attention barbarity beast benevolence Bouillaud brain brute bull bull-baiting Cato the Censor cattle Celsus classes cock-fighting compassion creation creatures cries cruel amusements cruelty to animals death disgraceful dominion Dr Johnson duty earth effects of cruelty enacts-"That evil exercise experiments on living facts faculties feelings heart Horseley Heath horses human nature humanity to animals illustration inflicted influence inquiries instincts interfere JAMES MACAULAY kind knowledge labour legislation lence living animals London Lord Erskine lower animals manifest means ments mercy mind misery moral nervous Nineveh objects observed opinion pain passions performed periments phenomena Phrenological physicians physiologists practice present principle quæ regard rience scenes scientific Scripture sentiments similar slaughter-houses society species of cruelty spirit suffering sympathy thee things thou shalt tion tive torture treatment ture UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH unnatural vivisection wanton Wilson Philip xxii young
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Page 27 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 20 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee ; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee : And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
Page 23 - 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 67 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 22 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle: and herb for the service of man; That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 24 - I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. "And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
Page 17 - 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, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things.
Page 21 - 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. 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 :
Page 22 - So is this great and wide sea, Wherein are things creeping innumerable, Both small and great beasts. There go the ships : There is that leviathan, whom THOU hast made to play therein.
Page 84 - ... that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable than that, since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that way.