Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volume 1William Oliphant and son, 1836 - Natural theology |
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... admirable execution of a work apparently full of difficulties and obstructions ; and the goodness , in the ... admiration , and gratitude of such limited creatures as we are , than even if we were to see the hand of the Creator ...
... admirable execution of a work apparently full of difficulties and obstructions ; and the goodness , in the ... admiration , and gratitude of such limited creatures as we are , than even if we were to see the hand of the Creator ...
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... admiration of the Divine perfections , and to teach us the salutary lesson of our own insignificance . It does not require that we should dive into the mysteries of the heavens , by means of the telescope , before these sentiments arise ...
... admiration of the Divine perfections , and to teach us the salutary lesson of our own insignificance . It does not require that we should dive into the mysteries of the heavens , by means of the telescope , before these sentiments arise ...
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... admiration . Sir Charles Bell , in the work from which we have quoted , has fol- lowed out this inquiry , as respects the human hand , in a very interesting manner ; and we cannot better close this paper than by extracting a few ...
... admiration . Sir Charles Bell , in the work from which we have quoted , has fol- lowed out this inquiry , as respects the human hand , in a very interesting manner ; and we cannot better close this paper than by extracting a few ...
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... admiring , are so far from being peculiarly suited to the hand of man , that they may be found in any vertebrated animal . But this would not abate our admiration ; it would only induce us to take a more comprehensive view of nature ...
... admiring , are so far from being peculiarly suited to the hand of man , that they may be found in any vertebrated animal . But this would not abate our admiration ; it would only induce us to take a more comprehensive view of nature ...
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... admirable skill to a beneficent end . FIRST WEEK - THURSDAY . CIRCULATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN . WE have mentioned the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its annual orbit , as the cause of the va- riety of seasons on ...
... admirable skill to a beneficent end . FIRST WEEK - THURSDAY . CIRCULATION IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND OCEAN . WE have mentioned the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of its annual orbit , as the cause of the va- riety of seasons on ...
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Page 348 - 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
Page 358 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Page 366 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Page 123 - The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, And blunts his pointed fury. In its case Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art, And ere one flowery season fades and dies Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
Page 59 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 343 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 349 - 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.
Page 247 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Page 367 - 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.
Page 28 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.