A Snuff-box Full of Trees: & Some Apocryphal EssaysDodd, Mead, 1909 - 91 páginas |
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... world in 1849 not only the most wondrous wealth known up to that time , but also the tallest trees that ever grew toward heaven . Somewhere in the early fifties G. H. Woodruff joined the throng of gold hunters and went West to seek his ...
... world in 1849 not only the most wondrous wealth known up to that time , but also the tallest trees that ever grew toward heaven . Somewhere in the early fifties G. H. Woodruff joined the throng of gold hunters and went West to seek his ...
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... world . Specimens have been measured upward of 300 feet in height and thirty - two feet in diameter three feet from the ground . We think it will prove hardy here , as several specimens stood out unprotected last winter . Mr. Reid , of ...
... world . Specimens have been measured upward of 300 feet in height and thirty - two feet in diameter three feet from the ground . We think it will prove hardy here , as several specimens stood out unprotected last winter . Mr. Reid , of ...
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... worlds in the Milky Way . Can we not easily believe that our great Creator , as one of his plans for our eternal bliss , might prepare as our place among them a star , a whole world , a happy heaven of its own for every soul that he has ...
... worlds in the Milky Way . Can we not easily believe that our great Creator , as one of his plans for our eternal bliss , might prepare as our place among them a star , a whole world , a happy heaven of its own for every soul that he has ...
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... Does a fish sur- vive out of its element ? Does a man drown in the sea ? Life here on earth adapts itself to heat and cold , to atmosphere and to almost every con- dition . Why not in other worlds ? It is 19 THE EGOTISM OF THE EARTH.
... Does a fish sur- vive out of its element ? Does a man drown in the sea ? Life here on earth adapts itself to heat and cold , to atmosphere and to almost every con- dition . Why not in other worlds ? It is 19 THE EGOTISM OF THE EARTH.
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... worlds , as we think it , with Jupiter , Saturn , and Neptune , subject to our great Sun , and our little earth trailing in the rear . Then , let your eyes open and perceive the infinite extent of the worlds , which lie beyond our orbit ...
... worlds , as we think it , with Jupiter , Saturn , and Neptune , subject to our great Sun , and our little earth trailing in the rear . Then , let your eyes open and perceive the infinite extent of the worlds , which lie beyond our orbit ...
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Página 10 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up ? and with what body do they come? Thou fool! That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be. . . But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him. . . It is sown in corruption; it is
Página 39 - Blessed Lord, who hath caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. It is
Página 57 - when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and got him home, to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself and died.
Página 44 - 6. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Página 54 - Then he called hastily to the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, ' Draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me, a woman slew him.' And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Página 43 - heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5. And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6. And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Página 10 - He is not dead, this friend,—not dead,— But in the path we mortals tread Got some few trifling steps ahead And nearer to the end. So, that you, too, once past the bend Shall meet again, as face to face, this friend You fancy dead.
Página 47 - he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live ? and I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest,
Página 54 - Draw thy sword and slay me, that men say not of me, a woman slew him.' And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
Página 46 - one of the most magnificent passages in Holy Writ, that, namely, which describes the death of Sisera : At her feet he bowed, he fell: at her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down; where he bowed, there he fell down dead,