A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society.

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1789
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Credit: A letter to the Right Reverend Samuel, Lord Bishop of St. David's : occasioned by his sermon on the principle of vitality in man, &c. preached on Sunday, March 22, 1789, for the benefit of the Humane Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *7 ) in other places, in which it is ufed as fy~ “ nonimous to man, the whole man, and in “ fome manifeftly figniiies nothing more than (e the corporeal, or mortal part of man ” See Gen. xlvi. 26. Levit. vii. 20, 21. Pf. vii. 2. “ Befides, whatever principles we may be f( led to afcribe to man from this account of €€ his formation in Gen. ii. 7. the very fme (C we ought to afcribe to the brutesbecaufe “ the very fame words are ufed in the account €t of them by the fame writer, both in the f Hebrew and in the Septuagint, though they i€ are differently rendered in our tranflation. For ** Gen. i. 24. we read, and God jaid let the earth bring forth the living creature [u/sj “ nn] [living foul] and again, Gen. ii. 19. “ And whatfoever Adam called every living €t creature [living foul] that was the name ** thereof ^T # * * # “ Multa itaque Grseca funt in novo foedere (( vocabula quse ex ulu Graecas lingua intelligi * Priestley’s DiJquiJ. on Mafter, fcfr, p* 154. & fequ.