Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volumen1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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... course of study which will lay before us , in detail , abundant proofs of beneficent design , exhibited in the various departments of creation ; and we surely cannot better employ this first day of the first week of our delightful and ...
... course of study which will lay before us , in detail , abundant proofs of beneficent design , exhibited in the various departments of creation ; and we surely cannot better employ this first day of the first week of our delightful and ...
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... course of our inquiry ; but let us take one example by way of illustration . In our climate , and in all the re- gions which verge toward the poles , within certain li- mits , one of the discomforts of winter , which must occur to every ...
... course of our inquiry ; but let us take one example by way of illustration . In our climate , and in all the re- gions which verge toward the poles , within certain li- mits , one of the discomforts of winter , which must occur to every ...
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... course . ' " " * The globular figure of the earth , which is the result of this law , and which may easily be shown to possess many important advantages , presents this formidable difficulty , —that the rays of the sun , issuing in ...
... course . ' " " * The globular figure of the earth , which is the result of this law , and which may easily be shown to possess many important advantages , presents this formidable difficulty , —that the rays of the sun , issuing in ...
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... course , not in an erect , but in an inclined position ; by which means the pole which leant towards the sun in one part of the course , leans away from it in another . The consequence of this is , that the sun , instead of shin- ing ...
... course , not in an erect , but in an inclined position ; by which means the pole which leant towards the sun in one part of the course , leans away from it in another . The consequence of this is , that the sun , instead of shin- ing ...
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... course of nature succeeds . In the forces which produce this derangement , there is a provi- sion for making it short and moderate . The oscillation stops of itself , like the rolling of a ship when no longer impelled by the wind . Now ...
... course of nature succeeds . In the forces which produce this derangement , there is a provi- sion for making it short and moderate . The oscillation stops of itself , like the rolling of a ship when no longer impelled by the wind . Now ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 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
Página 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.
Página 366 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Página 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.
Página 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,
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 28 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.