...? Do you not see a great variety of creatures lower than you, and made for your use ? What else are the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, and rivers ? Are you not much better than they ? furnished with greater excellencies...

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...By divine appointment, not only the vegetable kingdom, but the animal world is subservient to man. The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea, are under his controul both for his support and convenience. The Lord said to man,...

...every means to render mankind happy by the aid of industry, might be rendered untenanted, except by the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the habitants of the sea ! If we turn over the leaves of any rational book which may be at hand, it signifies...

...or influence,—always suggesting that there is something to be done, and a capableness of doing it. The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea, all have their various modes of occupation. It is the same, in a measure, with the...

...pleasures of the table merely to gain credit for superior discrimination and delicacy of palate ; he was none of your "gastronomic puppies, that prate everlastingly...lively sense of the pleasing essences and grateful flavours which are capable of being extracted therefrom. He did not like or dislike — or admire or...

...York. Having trepanned you into a description — no, not a description, but an enumeration of all the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, which are worthy of mention in Jamaica, I shall conclude my account of the inquiries...

...and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow observe the time of their coming." (Jer. viii. 7). " The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea ; even that leviathan, whom he has made to take his pastime therein" I! (Ps. civ.)...

...there are storms and snows ; — not one of which things is unfurnished with instruction. There are the birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the creeping insects and worms. Every morning, the sun rises, and every evening, he sets, and every night,...

...us that God is love; for the sun, moon, and stars light us, and the clouds give us grateful showers. The birds of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fishes of the sea, say that God is love; for he has given the birds wings to fly with, the beasts the...