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Pàgina 9
... example by way of illustration . In our climate , and in all the regions which verge toward the poles , within certain limits , one of the discomforts of winter , which must occur to every person who thinks on the subject , is the ...
... example by way of illustration . In our climate , and in all the regions which verge toward the poles , within certain limits , one of the discomforts of winter , which must occur to every person who thinks on the subject , is the ...
Pàgina 12
... example stated yesterday , some idea may be formed of the kind of compensation for permitted evils which is every where to be discovered in the works of creation ; but another , and equally marked feature in the face of nature , is that ...
... example stated yesterday , some idea may be formed of the kind of compensation for permitted evils which is every where to be discovered in the works of creation ; but another , and equally marked feature in the face of nature , is that ...
Pàgina 67
... example of this power may be taken from the rabbit . It has been calculated that , from a pair of these animals , may proceed , in four years , a progeny of nearly a million and a half . The common grass is an example of a similar kind ...
... example of this power may be taken from the rabbit . It has been calculated that , from a pair of these animals , may proceed , in four years , a progeny of nearly a million and a half . The common grass is an example of a similar kind ...
Pàgina 68
... examples of the latter , which I extract from a note in Mr. Sharon Turner's ' History of the Crea- tion , ' may suffice as an illustration . " Farmers destroy moles , because the hillocks they make break the level surface ; but they ...
... examples of the latter , which I extract from a note in Mr. Sharon Turner's ' History of the Crea- tion , ' may suffice as an illustration . " Farmers destroy moles , because the hillocks they make break the level surface ; but they ...
Pàgina 70
... example of the immense extent of the power by which the excess of the reproductive principle is restrained , in all the various races of living beings , from the microscopic insect to the huge elephant . The proof thus afforded of the ...
... example of the immense extent of the power by which the excess of the reproductive principle is restrained , in all the various races of living beings , from the microscopic insect to the huge elephant . The proof thus afforded of the ...
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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.