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Pàgina v
... rendered to them all , by one individual writer . A glance at the Table of Contents , is sufficient to convince any reasonable person , that a thorough treatment of the various questions of art and science there comprehended , in so ...
... rendered to them all , by one individual writer . A glance at the Table of Contents , is sufficient to convince any reasonable person , that a thorough treatment of the various questions of art and science there comprehended , in so ...
Pàgina ix
... renders the perusal of their contents a matter of most easy accom- plishment , whether in the school , or the family circle . Each one of the volumes is devoted to a separate season , and is divided into as many chapters , or short ...
... renders the perusal of their contents a matter of most easy accom- plishment , whether in the school , or the family circle . Each one of the volumes is devoted to a separate season , and is divided into as many chapters , or short ...
Pàgina 3
... renders the plan adopted a matter at least of convenient arrangement . Winter is the season in which , although the hand of a beneficent and wonder - working Creator is every where to be distinctly traced , there are fewer objects of ...
... renders the plan adopted a matter at least of convenient arrangement . Winter is the season in which , although the hand of a beneficent and wonder - working Creator is every where to be distinctly traced , there are fewer objects of ...
Pàgina 9
... rendered a source of pleasure and improvement ! If , during the absence of the sun , we look at the starry heavens , what an inexhaustible fund of wonders does astronomy unfold , at once to exalt and to humble the human mind , —to fill ...
... rendered a source of pleasure and improvement ! If , during the absence of the sun , we look at the starry heavens , what an inexhaustible fund of wonders does astronomy unfold , at once to exalt and to humble the human mind , —to fill ...
Pàgina 10
Henry Duncan. darkness of a long winter night , were it not cheered and rendered sublime by the splendor of the starry firma- ment ! Look , again , at the comforts and domestic endear- ments of a winter - evening fireside . Who , that ...
Henry Duncan. darkness of a long winter night , were it not cheered and rendered sublime by the splendor of the starry firma- ment ! Look , again , at the comforts and domestic endear- ments of a winter - evening fireside . Who , that ...
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Frases i termes més freqüents
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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.