The Harmonies of Nature; Or, The Unity of CreationLongmans, Green, and Company, 1866 - 406 páginas |
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... short duration , for as the darkness deepens , new worlds blaze forth from the dark heavens , and open the portals of the Infinite to our astonished gaze . Thus night , far from contracting our horizon , withdraws in reality the veil ...
... short duration , for as the darkness deepens , new worlds blaze forth from the dark heavens , and open the portals of the Infinite to our astonished gaze . Thus night , far from contracting our horizon , withdraws in reality the veil ...
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... short to be able to ascertain the centre of his prodigious orbit . Similar motions have been discovered in other fixed stars , and thus we can hardly doubt that all the spheres of our world - island are engaged in constant motion -- nay ...
... short to be able to ascertain the centre of his prodigious orbit . Similar motions have been discovered in other fixed stars , and thus we can hardly doubt that all the spheres of our world - island are engaged in constant motion -- nay ...
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... they leave the slope uncovered , the sun and rain act with a double force , and thus in a short time vast quantities of snow , which would have given way but slowly to the unassisted efforts D of the sun , disappear from the hills , and.
... they leave the slope uncovered , the sun and rain act with a double force , and thus in a short time vast quantities of snow , which would have given way but slowly to the unassisted efforts D of the sun , disappear from the hills , and.
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... short time all is life and activity in the liberated waters . Millions upon millions of worms , mollusks , insects , and reptiles awaken from their winter lethargy , the sweet - water fishes emerge from the mud in which they lay plunged ...
... short time all is life and activity in the liberated waters . Millions upon millions of worms , mollusks , insects , and reptiles awaken from their winter lethargy , the sweet - water fishes emerge from the mud in which they lay plunged ...
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... short March or September days would have fallen to the share of the temperate zones , and both the poles would have been plunged in constant darkness . The higher latitudes , covered with per- petual ice , must have been totally ...
... short March or September days would have fallen to the share of the temperate zones , and both the poles would have been plunged in constant darkness . The higher latitudes , covered with per- petual ice , must have been totally ...
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