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The Works of William Paley: With a Life of the Author - Page 337
by William Paley - 1825
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Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity ...

William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...child, without knowing any thing of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate...sounds, or, perhaps, of the single word which it has learned to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours...
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Natural theology: or, Evidence of the existence and attributes of the Deity

William Paley - Natural theology - 1813 - 572 pages
...child, without knowing any thing of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate...point clearly. Nor is it less pleased with its first saccessful endeavours to walk, or rather to run (which precedes walking), although entirely ignorant...
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Natural Theology: Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity

William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...speak. Its incessant repetitien of the few articulate sounds, or, perhaps, of the single word, whkh it has learnt to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased-with its first successful endeavors to walk, or rather to run, (which precedes walking,) although-...
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Views of the Creation

Natural history - 1822 - 192 pages
...child without knowing any thing of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate...sounds, or perhaps of the single word which it has learned to pronouncev proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - Conduct of life - 1822 - 844 pages
...of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of the few articulate sounds, or, perhaps, of the single word, which it has learned to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavours...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation

John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...child, without knowing any thing of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate sounds, or, perhaps, of a single word, which it has learned to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased...
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The Works...

William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...child, without knowing any thinsr of the use rt language, is in a high degree delighted with beinc able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate sounds, or, perhaps, of the single woni which it has learnt to pronounce, proves this poin'. clearly. Nor is it less p 'eased with its...
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Views of the Creation

Creation - 1826 - 188 pages
...incessant repetition of a few articulate Bounds, or perhaps of the single word which it has learned to pronounce, proves this -point clearly. Nor is it...pleased with its first successful endeavours to walk, although entirely ignorant of the importance of the attainment to its future life, and even without...
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Conversations on Some Leading Points in Natural Philosophy: Designed to ...

Bourne Hall Draper - Animals - 1828 - 126 pages
...language, is in a high •degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of the few articulate sounds, or, perhaps, of the single word, which it has learned to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased with its first successful endeavors...
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Lessons in Enunciation: Comprising a Course of Elementary Exercises and a ...

William Russell - Elocution - 1833 - 88 pages
...child, without knowing anything of the use of language, is in a high degree delighted with being able to speak. Its incessant repetition of a few articulate sounds, or perhaps of a siiigle word, which it has learned to pronounce, proves this point clearly. Nor is it less pleased...
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