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... Abundant Riches of Nature Sun - rise · Curious Structure of the Ear The Milky - way Germination of Plants The azure Colour of the Sky Necessity and Use of Air Diversity of Soil Necessity of Repose during the Night Magnitude of the Earth ...
... Abundant Riches of Nature Sun - rise · Curious Structure of the Ear The Milky - way Germination of Plants The azure Colour of the Sky Necessity and Use of Air Diversity of Soil Necessity of Repose during the Night Magnitude of the Earth ...
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... abundance , throughout the creation . JANUARY XI . Snow conduces to the Earth's Fertility . REGARDING appearances only , we might be induced to say , that snow , so far from being useful to the earth , was , by its cold and moisture ...
... abundance , throughout the creation . JANUARY XI . Snow conduces to the Earth's Fertility . REGARDING appearances only , we might be induced to say , that snow , so far from being useful to the earth , was , by its cold and moisture ...
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... abundance of fruits the summer prepares for the autumn's maturing hand ! Every month , every day we receive some fresh gift from nature . As the tender mother provides for her young with anxious care , so nature is busied from morn to ...
... abundance of fruits the summer prepares for the autumn's maturing hand ! Every month , every day we receive some fresh gift from nature . As the tender mother provides for her young with anxious care , so nature is busied from morn to ...
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... abundance over the face of the earth . + " The thunder peals , and we see the lightnings flash ; God announceth his wonders , and performeth things too marvellous for our comprehension . He sayeth unto the rain of winter , Fall down ...
... abundance over the face of the earth . + " The thunder peals , and we see the lightnings flash ; God announceth his wonders , and performeth things too marvellous for our comprehension . He sayeth unto the rain of winter , Fall down ...
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... abundance for the support of man , none seems to be more general or more necessary than bread . It is consumed alike by the poor and the rich , by the sick and by the healthy ; and would seem to be the food more particularly designed by ...
... abundance for the support of man , none seems to be more general or more necessary than bread . It is consumed alike by the poor and the rich , by the sick and by the healthy ; and would seem to be the food more particularly designed by ...
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Page 314 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 82 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 81 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 227 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 38 - And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 82 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 81 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Page 82 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night...
Page 256 - The eyes of all wait upon thee ; And thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, And satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 40 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...