The Works of Saint-Pierre: Comprising His Studies of Nature; Paul and Virginia and Indian Cottage, Volum 1Bohn, 1846 |
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Pàgina 2
... Peru , near the equa- tor , the arc of which contains no more than 56,748 fathoms . Hence they concluded , that the degrees , or portions of the circumference of the earth , corresponding to the degrees of the celestial meridian ...
... Peru , near the equa- tor , the arc of which contains no more than 56,748 fathoms . Hence they concluded , that the degrees , or portions of the circumference of the earth , corresponding to the degrees of the celestial meridian ...
Pàgina 62
... Peru , the Alps , and that of Sweden , which is green , & c . But how many varieties are unknown to us ! Has not each degree of latitude one particular to itself ? May we not presume that there are trees which bear straw- berries , as ...
... Peru , the Alps , and that of Sweden , which is green , & c . But how many varieties are unknown to us ! Has not each degree of latitude one particular to itself ? May we not presume that there are trees which bear straw- berries , as ...
Pàgina 62
... Peru , which love to reside at the foot of the snows of the Andes , and are clothed by Nature with the finest wool ? We have often attempted , indeed , to rear foreign animals in our parks , taking care to chuse the species whose cli ...
... Peru , which love to reside at the foot of the snows of the Andes , and are clothed by Nature with the finest wool ? We have often attempted , indeed , to rear foreign animals in our parks , taking care to chuse the species whose cli ...
Pàgina 62
... Peru climbs with its cloven feet , which are provided with two spurs , the pre- cipices of the Andes , and brings him its rose - colored fleece . The rein - deer , with her broad , parted hoof , traverses the snows of the north , and ...
... Peru climbs with its cloven feet , which are provided with two spurs , the pre- cipices of the Andes , and brings him its rose - colored fleece . The rein - deer , with her broad , parted hoof , traverses the snows of the north , and ...
Pàgina 62
... Peru , and the liane impregnated with water , which are found only on the arid rocks of the torrid zone , where they are placed like vegetable fountains . The very instincts of animals appear to be less adapted to their personal utility ...
... Peru , and the liane impregnated with water , which are found only on the arid rocks of the torrid zone , where they are placed like vegetable fountains . The very instincts of animals appear to be less adapted to their personal utility ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 100 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Pàgina 106 - Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death? Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth? Declare if thou knowest it all.
Pàgina 101 - God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged ; the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained ; and the waters returned from off the earth continually : and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
Pàgina 185 - God, and could not out of the good things that are seen, know him that is : neither by considering the works did they acknowledge the workmaster ; but deemed either fire, or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the gods which govern the world.
Pàgina 10 - What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine ; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Pàgina 106 - That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, And that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof? Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? Or because the number of thy days is great?
Pàgina 10 - The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son : the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.
Pàgina 136 - The morasses have been drained ; and, in proportion as the soil has been cultivated, the air has become more temperate. Canada, at this day, is an exact picture of ancient Germany. Although situated in the same parallel with the finest provinces of France and England, that country experiences the most rigorous cold. The reindeer are very numerous, the ground is covered with deep and lasting snow, and the...
Pàgina 62 - ... stones — how it appears verdant in the spring without any pains employed to preserve it from frost and snow — how, feeble and trailing along the ground, it should be able to migrate from the deepest valleys to Alpine heights — to traverse the globe from north to south, from mountain to mountain, forming, on its passage over prairie and plain, a thousand mingled patches of...
Pàgina 227 - ... return to Berlin was eager to fee the couple he had ordered to be married. When they were prefented to him, he fell into a very defperate paffion.