The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volum 1Harper & Bros., 1839 |
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Pàgina 18
... beautiful creation furnishes an illustrating comment on these revealed truths ; and a careful considera- tion of these sources of our most important knowledge will enable us to take such views of the moral constitution and course of ...
... beautiful creation furnishes an illustrating comment on these revealed truths ; and a careful considera- tion of these sources of our most important knowledge will enable us to take such views of the moral constitution and course of ...
Pàgina 20
... beautiful forms and scientific arrangements and motions of visible nature , was felt to be incredible by some of the finest minds of antiquity , and finds no patronage now from the true philoso- pher . Design , contriving thought , the ...
... beautiful forms and scientific arrangements and motions of visible nature , was felt to be incredible by some of the finest minds of antiquity , and finds no patronage now from the true philoso- pher . Design , contriving thought , the ...
Pàgina 23
... beautiful element , Earth yet was not : nor the heaven above , Only the abyss of chaos , and no grass . Hist . Angl . Sax . vol . i . p . 242 . Diodorus Siculus thus represents the notions of the old Egyptians , to the same purport ...
... beautiful element , Earth yet was not : nor the heaven above , Only the abyss of chaos , and no grass . Hist . Angl . Sax . vol . i . p . 242 . Diodorus Siculus thus represents the notions of the old Egyptians , to the same purport ...
Pàgina 40
... beautiful , -is , that they and we had all one coinciding period of existence , and differ little in the chronology of our origin . This fact , at least , seems to be philosophically certain , that all the bodies which compose our ...
... beautiful , -is , that they and we had all one coinciding period of existence , and differ little in the chronology of our origin . This fact , at least , seems to be philosophically certain , that all the bodies which compose our ...
Pàgina 41
... beautiful star near the lower part of Orion , to be 525,481 times more distant from us than the sun . Dr. Bradley rea- soned that y Draco was 400,000 times the same distance . for the most powerful telescopes cannot farther enlarge them ...
... beautiful star near the lower part of Orion , to be 525,481 times more distant from us than the sun . Dr. Bradley rea- soned that y Draco was 400,000 times the same distance . for the most powerful telescopes cannot farther enlarge them ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 34 - 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 261 - 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 118 - With charm of earliest Birds ; pleasant the Sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering 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...
Pàgina 120 - 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 42 - 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.
Pàgina 38 - 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 118 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams...
Pàgina 120 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Pàgina 330 - ... walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise...
Pàgina 407 - How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!