Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volumen1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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... Instinct , 126 VI . SUNDAY . - Greatness of God even in the smallest Things , 131 Reason in the Lower Animals , 134 Eggs , 139 Various States , 144 Bees , . 149 The Snail , • 157 The Beetle - Animalcules in Paste , 160 VII . SUNDAY ...
... Instinct , 126 VI . SUNDAY . - Greatness of God even in the smallest Things , 131 Reason in the Lower Animals , 134 Eggs , 139 Various States , 144 Bees , . 149 The Snail , • 157 The Beetle - Animalcules in Paste , 160 VII . SUNDAY ...
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... instinct , pro- vide for themselves comfortable retreats , each tribe adapt- ing its accommodation to its peculiar circumstances , bur- rowing in the earth , or boring beneath the bark of trees and shrubs , or penetrating into their ...
... instinct , pro- vide for themselves comfortable retreats , each tribe adapt- ing its accommodation to its peculiar circumstances , bur- rowing in the earth , or boring beneath the bark of trees and shrubs , or penetrating into their ...
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... instincts and defences are not so numerous as those of the brutes , reason and foresight amply supply their place . Influenced by these , we build comfortable houses , of materials which are every where to be found , and collect ...
... instincts and defences are not so numerous as those of the brutes , reason and foresight amply supply their place . Influenced by these , we build comfortable houses , of materials which are every where to be found , and collect ...
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... instincts and habits , to their geographical position , and what skill has been employed in diffusing life and enjoyment throughout the world . Facts of a similar kind will meet us every where in the course of our inquiry . * Kirby's ...
... instincts and habits , to their geographical position , and what skill has been employed in diffusing life and enjoyment throughout the world . Facts of a similar kind will meet us every where in the course of our inquiry . * Kirby's ...
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... instinct which in- duces some to emigrate to more genial regions , and others to retire to caves and burrows , where they spend the long and dreary winter months in a state of insensibility , or of partial lethargy , not perhaps without ...
... instinct which in- duces some to emigrate to more genial regions , and others to retire to caves and burrows , where they spend the long and dreary winter months in a state of insensibility , or of partial lethargy , not perhaps without ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.