Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen2,Tema 72Harper, 1844 |
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... Deity towards them and their Posterity . LETTER XIV . 205 Further Reflections on the Conduct of our first Parents and its natural Causes ; and on the Nature and Effect of the Process carried on for the Improvement of Human Nature , and ...
... Deity towards them and their Posterity . LETTER XIV . 205 Further Reflections on the Conduct of our first Parents and its natural Causes ; and on the Nature and Effect of the Process carried on for the Improvement of Human Nature , and ...
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... human meditation do these remarks apply more , than to those which we would class among the divine ones ; to all that is connected with the Deity and his revela- tions ; and to the interest which we may have 22 THE SACRED HISTORY.
... human meditation do these remarks apply more , than to those which we would class among the divine ones ; to all that is connected with the Deity and his revela- tions ; and to the interest which we may have 22 THE SACRED HISTORY.
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... Deity is the fountain of all good and happiness , the maker , provider , and giver , of all our comforts , and whose omnipotence invests him with an un- bounded power of perpetually and indefinitely increasing his general bounty , and ...
... Deity is the fountain of all good and happiness , the maker , provider , and giver , of all our comforts , and whose omnipotence invests him with an un- bounded power of perpetually and indefinitely increasing his general bounty , and ...
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... Deity . An instance of this occurs in the autobiography of Nana Farnewis , a Mahratta nobleman and minister , born 1742 , and who was in the battle of Paniput in 1761. Though attached to his Hindoo paganism , and injuriously affected by ...
... Deity . An instance of this occurs in the autobiography of Nana Farnewis , a Mahratta nobleman and minister , born 1742 , and who was in the battle of Paniput in 1761. Though attached to his Hindoo paganism , and injuriously affected by ...
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... Deity . MY DEAR SYDNEY , Or the divine philosophy , which I have been recommend- ing to you , the sacred history of the world will be the most important subject ; and of this , the principal compartment , or at least that which cannot ...
... Deity . MY DEAR SYDNEY , Or the divine philosophy , which I have been recommend- ing to you , the sacred history of the world will be the most important subject ; and of this , the principal compartment , or at least that which cannot ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Página 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Página 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...