On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Creation of Animals and in Their History, Habits and Instincts, Volumen2W. Pickering, 1835 |
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abdomen action alluded amongst analogous animal kingdom Annelidans antennæ appears aquatic Arachnidans armed attack beetles belong birds body Branchiopods called caudal fin Cetaceans circumstances Class claws common Condylopes connected consider consisting Creator Crustaceans Cuvier Decapods devour Diptera divided earth eggs enable eyes feathers fins fishes flies flight flying former functions furnished genus gills habits head herbivorous Hexapods Hymenoptera Ibid inhabit insects instinct Introd jointed kind larves Latreille lobster locomotion Mammalians mandibles masticate maxillæ means membrane Molluscans Monotremes motion mouth Myriapods natatory nature nests observed Order organs Orthoptera oviparous pair of legs pectoral fins plants PLATE predaceous prehension prehensory prey principal probably quadrupeds regarded remarkable Reptiles resembling Saurians seems shell singular skin Solipeds sometimes species spiders structure Sub-class substance suckers tail teeth tentacles terrestrial animals tion toes trees tribe tube usually vegetable vertebrated wings Wisdom young
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Página 423 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Página 241 - There is not, in my opinion, any thing more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rises above reason, and falls infinitely short of it. It cannot be accounted for by any properties in matter, and at the same time works after so odd a manner, that one cannot think it the faculty of an intellectual being.
Página 525 - For the invisible things of God from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead...
Página 527 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ; in wisdom hast thou made them all ; the earth is full of thy riches. 25 So is the great and wide sea also; wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Página 262 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 241 - For my own part, I look upon it as upon the principle of gravitation in bodies, which is not to be explained by any known qualities inherent in the bodies themselves, nor from the laws of mechanism, but, according to the best notions of the greatest philosophers, is an immediate impression from the first mover, and the divine energy acting in the creatures.
Página 229 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Página 473 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Página 233 - Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.