Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volume 1William Oliphant and son, 1836 - Natural theology |
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... facts . He has no ambition to acquire fame as an original writer ; his more humble , but perhaps not less useful aim , being to instruct and edify those who may not be in possession of many works on Natural Theology , by rendering them ...
... facts . He has no ambition to acquire fame as an original writer ; his more humble , but perhaps not less useful aim , being to instruct and edify those who may not be in possession of many works on Natural Theology , by rendering them ...
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... facts and illustrations , so as to form a whole , containing , what the title expresses , the " SACRED PHILOSOPHY OF THE SEASONS . " in a It is customary , in enumerating the Seasons , to commence with Spring ; and it may be proper ...
... facts and illustrations , so as to form a whole , containing , what the title expresses , the " SACRED PHILOSOPHY OF THE SEASONS . " in a It is customary , in enumerating the Seasons , to commence with Spring ; and it may be proper ...
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... fact , which is yet within the reach of any person's observation , that the pain does not increase in proportion to the depth of the wound , the sensibility being almost exclusively con- fined to the outward covering of the body . This ...
... fact , which is yet within the reach of any person's observation , that the pain does not increase in proportion to the depth of the wound , the sensibility being almost exclusively con- fined to the outward covering of the body . This ...
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... facts must appear to be conclusive ; for who , witnessing these instances of insensibility , would not conclude that the parts were devoid of sensation ; but when we take the true philosophical , and I may say , religious view of the ...
... facts must appear to be conclusive ; for who , witnessing these instances of insensibility , would not conclude that the parts were devoid of sensation ; but when we take the true philosophical , and I may say , religious view of the ...
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... fact I have mentioned , is only a single instance of a principle of adaptation which runs through the whole system . The tropical plants , for ex- ample , are peculiarly formed , for the express purpose of enduring and flourishing under ...
... fact I have mentioned , is only a single instance of a principle of adaptation which runs through the whole system . The tropical plants , for ex- ample , are peculiarly formed , for the express purpose of enduring and flourishing under ...
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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.