The Obligation and Extent of Humanity to Brutes: Principally Considered with Reference to the Domesticated AnimalsLongman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1839 - 218 páginas |
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... existence , know the difficul- ties which arose like mountains in our path . They know that a distant and darkling light was all that we had to cheer us along our dim and obscure path . Thank God ! that solitary beam is now a wide ...
... existence , know the difficul- ties which arose like mountains in our path . They know that a distant and darkling light was all that we had to cheer us along our dim and obscure path . Thank God ! that solitary beam is now a wide ...
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... existence and the comfort of the inferior creatures ? We can form a correct judgment of the nature and intention of the gift by our knowledge of the cha- racter and habits of the donor . Who gave to man supremacy over the beast and the ...
... existence and the comfort of the inferior creatures ? We can form a correct judgment of the nature and intention of the gift by our knowledge of the cha- racter and habits of the donor . Who gave to man supremacy over the beast and the ...
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... existence . The more closely we contemplate the works of nature , the more overpowering is the evidence that the grand object of the Creator is the production of good . There is not an animal , an insect , or a plant , that we can ...
... existence . The more closely we contemplate the works of nature , the more overpowering is the evidence that the grand object of the Creator is the production of good . There is not an animal , an insect , or a plant , that we can ...
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... existence of the brute which it might produce , was the prohibi- tion not to kill the cow , or the ewe and their young one , on the same day † . It seemed like destroying all at one fell swoop . In the 22d chapter of the same book our ...
... existence of the brute which it might produce , was the prohibi- tion not to kill the cow , or the ewe and their young one , on the same day † . It seemed like destroying all at one fell swoop . In the 22d chapter of the same book our ...
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... existence to the very birds and to the flowers ; and then we are taught to be merci- ful , as our Father who is in heaven is merciful . There is no express command , but a regard to the pleasures and the pains of the inferior creatures ...
... existence to the very birds and to the flowers ; and then we are taught to be merci- ful , as our Father who is in heaven is merciful . There is no express command , but a regard to the pleasures and the pains of the inferior creatures ...
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Página 12 - 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: but thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.
Página 7 - Then said the Lord, 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 ?
Página 184 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up ; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Página 18 - Rejoice with me ; for I have found my sheep which was lost.
Página 2 - 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.
Página 6 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Página 5 - These wait all upon thee ; That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather : Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Página 25 - Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
Página 6 - Behold! and look away your low despair > See the light tenants of the barren air : To them, nor stores, nor granaries, belong, Nought, but the woodland, and the pleasing song; Yet, your kind heavenly Father bends his eye On the least wing, that flits along the sky.
Página 26 - 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.