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Pàgina xiv
... INSECTS . Instinct , 158 VII . SUNDAY . - On Seeing God in his Works , Reason in the Lower Animals , 162 165 Eggs , 170 Various States , 176 Bees , 181 The Snail , 188 · The Beetle , 191 Animalcules in Paste , 195 VIII . SUNDAY ...
... INSECTS . Instinct , 158 VII . SUNDAY . - On Seeing God in his Works , Reason in the Lower Animals , 162 165 Eggs , 170 Various States , 176 Bees , 181 The Snail , 188 · The Beetle , 191 Animalcules in Paste , 195 VIII . SUNDAY ...
Pàgina 32
... insects , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , there appears to be a general presentiment of the coming desolation . Some , impelled by a wonderful instinct , provide for themselves comfortable retreats , each tribe adapting its ...
... insects , reptiles , birds , and quadrupeds , there appears to be a general presentiment of the coming desolation . Some , impelled by a wonderful instinct , provide for themselves comfortable retreats , each tribe adapting its ...
Pàgina 52
... insects on the wing would fall lifeless to the earth ; the various species of caterpillars would drop stiff and dying from the frozen vegetables on which they fed ; even the larger animals would be stricken with the general blight ...
... insects on the wing would fall lifeless to the earth ; the various species of caterpillars would drop stiff and dying from the frozen vegetables on which they fed ; even the larger animals would be stricken with the general blight ...
Pàgina 53
... insects , would be unproduced . The progress of reproduction would be arrested at its source ; and , were the untimely blast to be universal , various links would be broken for ever in the chain of existence . This consideration brings ...
... insects , would be unproduced . The progress of reproduction would be arrested at its source ; and , were the untimely blast to be universal , various links would be broken for ever in the chain of existence . This consideration brings ...
Pàgina 56
... - scopic parasite to the mighty oak of the forest , which are spread profusely over its surface , the insects , the reptiles , the birds and beasts with which it teems - and — man , the lord of them all , every one 56 OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD .
... - scopic parasite to the mighty oak of the forest , which are spread profusely over its surface , the insects , the reptiles , the birds and beasts with which it teems - and — man , the lord of them all , every one 56 OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD .
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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.