The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge : Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volum 1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1833 |
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Pàgina vii
... cause will , however , become more ma- nifest to our judgment , if we take the Sacred History of the World into our philosophical consideration . As Nature will never be properly understood , if its A 4 PREFACE . vii.
... cause will , however , become more ma- nifest to our judgment , if we take the Sacred History of the World into our philosophical consideration . As Nature will never be properly understood , if its A 4 PREFACE . vii.
Pàgina 1
... inquiry . The mind has become unusally restless , in exploring the causes B LETTER and reasons of all things ; and expects and LETTER I On the Creation of the Earth-Light-The Atmosphere, the separation of Land and Sea - page.
... inquiry . The mind has become unusally restless , in exploring the causes B LETTER and reasons of all things ; and expects and LETTER I On the Creation of the Earth-Light-The Atmosphere, the separation of Land and Sea - page.
Pàgina 2
... become habitually dissatisfied or discursive , it inclines to be so in all things . As soon as disquisition takes the place of acquiesence , and we prefer to inquire rather than to venerate ; the thought is not restrained from doubt or ...
... become habitually dissatisfied or discursive , it inclines to be so in all things . As soon as disquisition takes the place of acquiesence , and we prefer to inquire rather than to venerate ; the thought is not restrained from doubt or ...
Pàgina 10
... become so confused on this point , that it was more generally supposed , that either these were eternally what they are , or that they were united into what we see them to be , by a fortuitous concourse of self - moving atoms . Such ...
... become so confused on this point , that it was more generally supposed , that either these were eternally what they are , or that they were united into what we see them to be , by a fortuitous concourse of self - moving atoms . Such ...
Pàgina 21
... become the more manifest to our enlightened judgment the more they are studied and understood . The use of the word ' day , ' to signify in its lesser meaning , that portion only of the natural day which occurs while one part of the ...
... become the more manifest to our enlightened judgment the more they are studied and understood . The use of the word ' day , ' to signify in its lesser meaning , that portion only of the natural day which occurs while one part of the ...
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The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and ..., Volum 1 Sharon Turner Visualització completa - 1833 |
The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and ..., Volum 1 Sharon Turner Visualització completa - 1833 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 159 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Pàgina 153 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Pàgina 157 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Pàgina 36 - 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, and years...
Pàgina 157 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Pàgina 358 - 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.
Pàgina 154 - Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.
Pàgina 335 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Pàgina 30 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Pàgina 40 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.