Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volumen1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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... only preserved but elaborated , that , when the prolific months of Spring arrive , they may burst into life in all the freshness and vigour iv PREFACE . Resisting Medium, The Satellites, SUNDAY -Divine and Human Knowledge compared,
... only preserved but elaborated , that , when the prolific months of Spring arrive , they may burst into life in all the freshness and vigour iv PREFACE . Resisting Medium, The Satellites, SUNDAY -Divine and Human Knowledge compared,
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... months before , had carried desolation to the north . The fatal consequences of this need not be described ; the whole balance of nature , at present so nicely adjusted , would be upset , the elements would be in constant and furious ...
... months before , had carried desolation to the north . The fatal consequences of this need not be described ; the whole balance of nature , at present so nicely adjusted , would be upset , the elements would be in constant and furious ...
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... months , the paternal care of an all - wise and beneficent Governor is not less conspicuous than in other periods of the changing year . If we look at the lower animals , how wonderful are the kind provisions of Providence . Among the ...
... months , the paternal care of an all - wise and beneficent Governor is not less conspicuous than in other periods of the changing year . If we look at the lower animals , how wonderful are the kind provisions of Providence . Among the ...
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... months when vege- tation is in its glory , and when animated nature luxu- riates in universal plenty , the effect would be most disastrous . All organized existences would feel the fatal shock . Leaves , and fruits , and flowers , would ...
... months when vege- tation is in its glory , and when animated nature luxu- riates in universal plenty , the effect would be most disastrous . All organized existences would feel the fatal shock . Leaves , and fruits , and flowers , would ...
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... month of the year . Every parallel of latitude has its peculiarities of weather , its longer or shorter duration of mildness and of rigour , —of rain and of drought , —of light and of darkness ; and to all these varieties , the plants ...
... month of the year . Every parallel of latitude has its peculiarities of weather , its longer or shorter duration of mildness and of rigour , —of rain and of drought , —of light and of darkness ; and to all these varieties , the plants ...
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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.