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Pàgina xiii
... Effect of the Commercial Spirit produced by a Variety of Climates , Adaptation of Organized Existences to Seasons and Climates , III . SUNDAY . - The Omnipresence of God , Adaptation of Organized Existences to the Tropical Regions ...
... Effect of the Commercial Spirit produced by a Variety of Climates , Adaptation of Organized Existences to Seasons and Climates , III . SUNDAY . - The Omnipresence of God , Adaptation of Organized Existences to the Tropical Regions ...
Pàgina xvi
... Effects of Frost in the Northern Regions , 319 Agency of Frost in Mountainous Regions , 322 Hoar Frost . - Foliations on Window - Glass , & c . , Beneficent Contrivances relative to Snow , Sagacity and Fidelity of the Dog in Snow , 325 ...
... Effects of Frost in the Northern Regions , 319 Agency of Frost in Mountainous Regions , 322 Hoar Frost . - Foliations on Window - Glass , & c . , Beneficent Contrivances relative to Snow , Sagacity and Fidelity of the Dog in Snow , 325 ...
Pàgina 16
... effects , is the principle of gravita- tion , of which it has been beautifully said , - - " The very law which moulds a tear , And makes it trickle from its source , That law preserves the earth a sphere , And guides the planets in ...
... effects , is the principle of gravita- tion , of which it has been beautifully said , - - " The very law which moulds a tear , And makes it trickle from its source , That law preserves the earth a sphere , And guides the planets in ...
Pàgina 17
... effect would be , that he would constantly shine with his direct rays only on that single line of the earth's surface which is called the equator . There would still be no change of seasons , and the accumulated heat in the equatorial ...
... effect would be , that he would constantly shine with his direct rays only on that single line of the earth's surface which is called the equator . There would still be no change of seasons , and the accumulated heat in the equatorial ...
Pàgina 19
... effect- ually avoided . Evils , indeed , still remain ; it is part of the system of a world of discipline that it should be so , - but the proof of Divine contrivance lies in this , that these evils are at the minimum , [ or lowest ...
... effect- ually avoided . Evils , indeed , still remain ; it is part of the system of a world of discipline that it should be so , - but the proof of Divine contrivance lies in this , that these evils are at the minimum , [ or lowest ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 179 - Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.
Pàgina 252 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Pàgina 383 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Pàgina 87 - My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Pàgina 378 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Pàgina 384 - 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 235 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Pàgina 364 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pàgina 366 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Pàgina 360 - 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.