Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volumen1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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... Providence , Wonders of the Microscope -- Infusory Animalcules , PAGE 69 73 77 80 83 86 90 93 96 102 107 HYBERNATION OF PLANTS . Plants and Animals compared , · Adjustment of the Constitution of Plants to the Annual Cycle ...
... Providence , Wonders of the Microscope -- Infusory Animalcules , PAGE 69 73 77 80 83 86 90 93 96 102 107 HYBERNATION OF PLANTS . Plants and Animals compared , · Adjustment of the Constitution of Plants to the Annual Cycle ...
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... Providence of God , 266 · Food and Clothing , 271 Dwellings and Fire , 274 FROST . Provision for causing Ice to Float on the Surface , 279 The Expansive and Non - Conducting Power of Ice , 282 Amusements Connected with it , 285 Effects ...
... Providence of God , 266 · Food and Clothing , 271 Dwellings and Fire , 274 FROST . Provision for causing Ice to Float on the Surface , 279 The Expansive and Non - Conducting Power of Ice , 282 Amusements Connected with it , 285 Effects ...
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... Providence ? Again , and above all , -Whence is moral evil ? How comes it that ingrati- tude to a benefactor of infinite perfection , and rebellion against the eternal laws of the great Moral Governor , should exist for a single instant ...
... Providence ? Again , and above all , -Whence is moral evil ? How comes it that ingrati- tude to a benefactor of infinite perfection , and rebellion against the eternal laws of the great Moral Governor , should exist for a single instant ...
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... Providence . Among the numerous tribes of insects , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , there appears to be a general presentiment of the coming de- solation . Some , impelled by a wonderful instinct , pro- vide for themselves ...
... Providence . Among the numerous tribes of insects , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , there appears to be a general presentiment of the coming de- solation . Some , impelled by a wonderful instinct , pro- vide for themselves ...
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... Providence the gift of the rein - deer , which is not less adapted to their wants than the camel is to those of the Arab . It furnishes them with the means of rapid and easy conveyance from place to place ; while its skin supplies them ...
... Providence the gift of the rein - deer , which is not less adapted to their wants than the camel is to those of the Arab . It furnishes them with the means of rapid and easy conveyance from place to place ; while its skin supplies them ...
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adapted admiration afford animalcules animals appear astronomy atmosphere aurora borealis beauty beneficent birds body Bridgewater Treatise cause character circumstances climate cold contrivance creation Creator Cuvier distance Divine earth eels effects eggs enjoyment Eternal evil fact faculties frost globe Greenland habits hand heat heavens human hybernation inhabitants insects instances instinct John Herschel kind land larvæ less light living luge means mind motion mountains nature nerally night numbers objects observed operations organized existences peculiar perfect period pheno planetary system plants polar circle present preserve principle produced proof Providence quadrupeds race racter regions remarkable rendered riety rigours round says scarcely season seems snow soil species spring starry stars summer surface temperate temperature things tion torpid trees tribes tropical variety various vegetable WEEK-SUNDAY WEEK-TUESDAY whole wind winter wisdom wonderful
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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.