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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... less sympathy ; but , with exceptions , few and far between , not a writer pleads for the innocent and serviceable creatures - brutes , as they are termed that minister to our wants , natural or artificial . Nevertheless , the claims of ...
... less sympathy ; but , with exceptions , few and far between , not a writer pleads for the innocent and serviceable creatures - brutes , as they are termed that minister to our wants , natural or artificial . Nevertheless , the claims of ...
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... less pain . Or , in another view , it is considering the animals around us as mere machines , contrived for our use . It is the ruling of them by threats and by terror , by the whip and by the spur . It is prematurely exhausting their ...
... less pain . Or , in another view , it is considering the animals around us as mere machines , contrived for our use . It is the ruling of them by threats and by terror , by the whip and by the spur . It is prematurely exhausting their ...
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... less than thirty - four times through the material . Tolerably close sewing this ! One bird - the tailor bird par excellence - picks up a dead leaf , and , with the dried fibres of grass for his thread , sews it to the side of a living ...
... less than thirty - four times through the material . Tolerably close sewing this ! One bird - the tailor bird par excellence - picks up a dead leaf , and , with the dried fibres of grass for his thread , sews it to the side of a living ...
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... less degree . " There are few of the readers of this Essay , who , if they have had the opportunity , have not visited Astley's Amphi- theatre in London ; and they have gone , as the author has many a time , in order to witness the ...
... less degree . " There are few of the readers of this Essay , who , if they have had the opportunity , have not visited Astley's Amphi- theatre in London ; and they have gone , as the author has many a time , in order to witness the ...
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... less than fifty miles in the day , visiting and feeding their young about a hundred and forty times ; according to which , in a brood consisting of five , and admitting only one to be fed each time , every bird must receive in this ...
... less than fifty miles in the day , visiting and feeding their young about a hundred and forty times ; according to which , in a brood consisting of five , and admitting only one to be fed each time , every bird must receive in this ...
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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.