Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Volume 2Harper & brothers, 1847 |
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Pagina 33
... contrivance . They need not prevent our recognising the skill and benevolence which we can discover . " But , besides the difference of heat and cold in different latitudes , there is a similar variation in the higher and lower strata ...
... contrivance . They need not prevent our recognising the skill and benevolence which we can discover . " But , besides the difference of heat and cold in different latitudes , there is a similar variation in the higher and lower strata ...
Pagina 45
... contrivance has rendered vicis- situde delightful , a much more weighty object is attained under its influence than merely enhancing felicity , or adding pungency to enjoyment . He who knoweth what is in man , sees the necessity of ...
... contrivance has rendered vicis- situde delightful , a much more weighty object is attained under its influence than merely enhancing felicity , or adding pungency to enjoyment . He who knoweth what is in man , sees the necessity of ...
Pagina 59
... contrivance is most admirably suited to its function , this provision being proportioned to the degree of power required ; so that , although in low shrubs and plants , which are not destined to experience much external violence from ...
... contrivance is most admirably suited to its function , this provision being proportioned to the degree of power required ; so that , although in low shrubs and plants , which are not destined to experience much external violence from ...
Pagina 60
... contrivance , the force of which no candid mind can resist . Another essential property which belongs to vegetable life , is the power it possesses of propagating the species . One of the most marked conditions of organized exist- ences ...
... contrivance , the force of which no candid mind can resist . Another essential property which belongs to vegetable life , is the power it possesses of propagating the species . One of the most marked conditions of organized exist- ences ...
Pagina 63
... contrivance ; for while the food itself is digested , and affords nourishment to the animal , the seed in many instances is voided uninjured , and perhaps better prepared for vegetation ; and it is thus that the Creator has provided for ...
... contrivance ; for while the food itself is digested , and affords nourishment to the animal , the seed in many instances is voided uninjured , and perhaps better prepared for vegetation ; and it is thus that the Creator has provided for ...
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Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of ..., Volume 2 Henry Duncan Volledige weergave - 1839 |
Sacred philosophy of the seasons: Illustrating the perfections of god in the ... Henry Duncan Volledige weergave - 1837 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 376 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Pagina 246 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou nearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
Pagina 328 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Pagina 349 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Pagina 218 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Pagina 178 - A bird's nest. Mark it well ! — within, without ; No tool had he that wrought — no knife to cut, No nail to fix — no bodkin to insert — No glue to join ; his little beak was all. And yet how neatly finished ! What nice hand. With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Pagina 41 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Pagina 218 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Pagina 218 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Pagina 376 - While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before. Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.