The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4G. Bell, 1882 |
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... species in which they are implanted . This progress in nature is so very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it . The exuberant and overflowing ...
... species in which they are implanted . This progress in nature is so very gradual , that the most perfect of an inferior species comes very near to the most imperfect of that which is immediately above it . The exuberant and overflowing ...
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... species of intelligent creatures above us than there are of sensible and material below us , is probable to me from hence ; that in all the visible corporeal world , we see no chasms , or no gaps . All quite down from us , the descent ...
... species of intelligent creatures above us than there are of sensible and material below us , is probable to me from hence ; that in all the visible corporeal world , we see no chasms , or no gaps . All quite down from us , the descent ...
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... species , but in the multiplicity of descants which it has made on every original species in par- ticular . But to pursue this thought still further : every living creature considered in itself has many very complicated parts , that are ...
... species , but in the multiplicity of descants which it has made on every original species in par- ticular . But to pursue this thought still further : every living creature considered in itself has many very complicated parts , that are ...
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THE SPECTATOR | xi |
Will Honeycombs Proposal of a Fair for Marriage | 22 |
FREEHOLDER | 26 |
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