Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Volum 1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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Pàgina 30
... seen in providing against , or compensating for , the privations of winter . If our natural instincts and defences are not so numerous as those of the brutes , reason and foresight amply supply their place . Influenced by these , we ...
... seen in providing against , or compensating for , the privations of winter . If our natural instincts and defences are not so numerous as those of the brutes , reason and foresight amply supply their place . Influenced by these , we ...
Pàgina 36
... seen when we enter into the parti- culars to which these preliminary remarks refer . SECOND WEEK - WEDNESDAY . ADAPTATION OF ORGANIZED EXISTENCES TO THE TROPICAL REGIONS . ALMOST every country has its winter , as well as the other ...
... seen when we enter into the parti- culars to which these preliminary remarks refer . SECOND WEEK - WEDNESDAY . ADAPTATION OF ORGANIZED EXISTENCES TO THE TROPICAL REGIONS . ALMOST every country has its winter , as well as the other ...
Pàgina 38
... seen ; the clear- ness of the sky was not interrupted by a single cloud , but the atmosphere was loaded with dust , which was sufficient to render distant objects dim as in a mist , and to make the sun appear dull and discoloured till ...
... seen ; the clear- ness of the sky was not interrupted by a single cloud , but the atmosphere was loaded with dust , which was sufficient to render distant objects dim as in a mist , and to make the sun appear dull and discoloured till ...
Pàgina 40
... seen no more till the evening . Then , when the atmosphere is again cool , to the morning species succeed others , whose office it is to embellish the nights of the torrid zone . I am speaking of the glow- worms and fire - flies ...
... seen no more till the evening . Then , when the atmosphere is again cool , to the morning species succeed others , whose office it is to embellish the nights of the torrid zone . I am speaking of the glow- worms and fire - flies ...
Pàgina 41
... seen but hills of sand , and heaps of stones ; there the camel travels , posting forward , without requiring either drink or pas- ture , and is often found six or seven days without any sustenance whatever . Its feet are formed for ...
... seen but hills of sand , and heaps of stones ; there the camel travels , posting forward , without requiring either drink or pas- ture , and is often found six or seven days without any sustenance whatever . Its feet are formed for ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 366 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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,
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 28 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.