...METEORS WHICH ARE FORMED IN THE CLOUDS : FROM THENCE HE PROCEEDS TO SPEAK OF THE ADMIRABLE CONTEXTURE OF THE BEASTS OF THE FIELD, AND THE BIRDS OF THE AIR; AND TOWARDS THE CONCLUSION GIVES A PARTICULAR DESCRIPTION OF ONE OF EACH, AS SUFFICIENT TO CONFOUND HIM,...

...Scriptures, to prove by analogy, aud thereby justify, the practice, that the Great Creator not only gave the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the fishes in. the sea for our use, our controul, and our well-being, but for our pastimes and pleasure...

...thingas he should, Is. iii. 8. Jer. vii. 6. He is the man that must be sent to school, to learn of the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, and the creeping things of the earth, Matt. J' vi. Prov. vi. how to cease from murmuring, and how to be...

...remainder of my days must be spent among beings so artificial as the human race. I am disgusted with their vain boastings. To hear them talk, one would really...skins, their own being of such a wretched texture as to be nearly useless ; and, strange as it may seem to animals who have been clad by nature, these borrowed...

...remainder of my days must be spent among beings so artificial as the human race. I am disgusted with, their vain boastings. To hear them talk, one would really...skins, their own being of such a wretched texture as to be nearly useless ; and, strange as it may seem to animals who have been clad by nature, these borrowed...

...pain. Bodily pain, and a certain degree, we may presume, of mental suffering, is often endured, even by the beasts of the field and the birds of the air ; and with respect to man, his capacity of suffering pain is large in proportion to his other powers. He...

...clime. The earth and the fulness thereof is at her command. Into her ports every wind would forward the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and all the productions of animated nature, from every corner of the globe, however remote ; but for such...

...clime. The earth and the fulness thereof is at her command. Into her ports every wind would forward the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and all the productions of animated nature, from every corner of the globe, however remote ; but for such...

...clime. The earth and the fulness thereof is at her command. Into her ports every wind would forward the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, and all the productions of animated nature, from every corner of the globe, however remote ; but for such...

...pain. Bodily pain and a certain degree, we may presume, of mental suffering are often endured, even by the beasts of the field and the birds of the air ; and, with respect to man, his capacity of suffering pain is large in proportion to his other powers. He...