Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustratring the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Volum 1Marsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1839 |
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... requires no effort of reasoning to demonstrate ; and that these laws should be fixed and undeviating , is a necessary consequence of their existence ; for , were they to any great extent to yield to circumstances , they would cease to ...
... requires no effort of reasoning to demonstrate ; and that these laws should be fixed and undeviating , is a necessary consequence of their existence ; for , were they to any great extent to yield to circumstances , they would cease to ...
Pàgina 26
... requires no apology . " I was riding through a wet boggy part of the road , that lies between my house and the mill , when a little sleety shower , with a strong blast of wind , came sud- denly upon me , and made it so very dark , that ...
... requires no apology . " I was riding through a wet boggy part of the road , that lies between my house and the mill , when a little sleety shower , with a strong blast of wind , came sud- denly upon me , and made it so very dark , that ...
Pàgina 45
... require a strong stimulus to exertion ; and that stimulus is to be found in our wants , a circumstance which has given rise to the wellknown proverb , -Necessity is the mother of invention . Were all the productions of the earth to be ...
... require a strong stimulus to exertion ; and that stimulus is to be found in our wants , a circumstance which has given rise to the wellknown proverb , -Necessity is the mother of invention . Were all the productions of the earth to be ...
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... requires no lengthened rest to recruit its powers ; nor do its vegeta- ble products need to sleep for months in the bud or in the root . Under a long drought , indeed , they languish and decay ; and this may , in fact , be considered as ...
... requires no lengthened rest to recruit its powers ; nor do its vegeta- ble products need to sleep for months in the bud or in the root . Under a long drought , indeed , they languish and decay ; and this may , in fact , be considered as ...
Pàgina 64
... requiring either drink or pasture , and is often found six or seven days without any sustenance whatever . Its feet are formed for travelling on sand , and are utterly unfit for moist or marshy places . In Arabia , and those countries ...
... requiring either drink or pasture , and is often found six or seven days without any sustenance whatever . Its feet are formed for travelling on sand , and are utterly unfit for moist or marshy places . In Arabia , and those countries ...
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Pàgina 252 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pàgina 365 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons
Pàgina 378 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Pàgina 235 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Pàgina 364 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pàgina 57 - Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there : if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea ; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and...
Pàgina 366 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Pàgina 325 - He will come and will not tarry, 'be diligent, that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot and blameless.
Pàgina 366 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Pàgina 379 - O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or, mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down ! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem. As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span • Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.