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... containing much useful information in natural history and natural phi- losophy , conveyed in language intelligible to young chil- dren ; and every where abounding with devotion warm from the heart . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. A MEDITATION ...
... containing much useful information in natural history and natural phi- losophy , conveyed in language intelligible to young chil- dren ; and every where abounding with devotion warm from the heart . CONTENTS OF VOL . I. A MEDITATION ...
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... containing myriads of intelligent beings in different states of felicity and perfectibility . If then the utmost stretch of the human faculties , the ut- most vigour of our reason , cannot comprehend the totality of these works , nor ...
... containing myriads of intelligent beings in different states of felicity and perfectibility . If then the utmost stretch of the human faculties , the ut- most vigour of our reason , cannot comprehend the totality of these works , nor ...
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... containing vast masses of floating ice , burst their boundaries and devastate the neigh- bouring country . The working of water - mills is stopped ; vegetables suffer ; wood and fuel entirely fail , or become excessively enhanced in ...
... containing vast masses of floating ice , burst their boundaries and devastate the neigh- bouring country . The working of water - mills is stopped ; vegetables suffer ; wood and fuel entirely fail , or become excessively enhanced in ...
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... contain more or less water as the season is dry or humid , whilst the vast body of the ocean ever preserves its bulk unaffected by such contingencies . Twice in the day it ebbs and flows according to certain rules ; when at its greatest ...
... contain more or less water as the season is dry or humid , whilst the vast body of the ocean ever preserves its bulk unaffected by such contingencies . Twice in the day it ebbs and flows according to certain rules ; when at its greatest ...
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... containing water , the surface of which is frozen over , into a temperate heat , the ice soon detaches it- self from the sides of the vessel , and floats on the top of the One cause of its lightness is the increase of volume ; for ...
... containing water , the surface of which is frozen over , into a temperate heat , the ice soon detaches it- self from the sides of the vessel , and floats on the top of the One cause of its lightness is the increase of volume ; for ...
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Page 270 - 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 79 - 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 28 - For as the rain cometh down, And the snow from heaven, And returneth not thither, But watereth the earth, And maketh it bring forth and bud, That it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: It shall not return unto me void, But it shall accomplish that which I please, And it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
Page 44 - O LORD *~* my God, thou art very great ; thou art clothed with honour and majesty : Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 79 - 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 80 - 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 44 - 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 79 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 44 - Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Page 45 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun. 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter.