Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... change - and the economy of life in plants and animals . It is thus peculiarly adapted for leading the mind to reflection , and awakening in it a desire for further knowledge , and a sense of the delight which springs from the study of ...
... change - and the economy of life in plants and animals . It is thus peculiarly adapted for leading the mind to reflection , and awakening in it a desire for further knowledge , and a sense of the delight which springs from the study of ...
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... Changes - Laws of Chemical Combination - Chemical Behaviour of Oxygen , of Nitro- gen , of Hydrogen , of Chlorine , of Carbonic Acid , of Water , and of other Substances - Chemical Transmutations of Colour - Natural " Fields of Fire ...
... Changes - Laws of Chemical Combination - Chemical Behaviour of Oxygen , of Nitro- gen , of Hydrogen , of Chlorine , of Carbonic Acid , of Water , and of other Substances - Chemical Transmutations of Colour - Natural " Fields of Fire ...
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... Change in the Earth's Formation - Crystalline Rocks - Sedimentary Rocks - Effects of Dis- turbance in the Earth's Crust - Fossiliferous Rocks - Characteristic Organic Remains of the Silurian , Old Red Sandstone , Coal . New Red ...
... Change in the Earth's Formation - Crystalline Rocks - Sedimentary Rocks - Effects of Dis- turbance in the Earth's Crust - Fossiliferous Rocks - Characteristic Organic Remains of the Silurian , Old Red Sandstone , Coal . New Red ...
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... changes , the beautiful phenomena , and the powerful influences of the seasons . It makes a very slow and perfectly steady oscillation , called the precession of the equinoxes , occasioning a small change in some of its relations ...
... changes , the beautiful phenomena , and the powerful influences of the seasons . It makes a very slow and perfectly steady oscillation , called the precession of the equinoxes , occasioning a small change in some of its relations ...
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... changes . The earth's sur- face , throughout all its earlier periods , appears to have been totally unfit for the residence of any such orders of organised creatures as now constitute its principal inhabitants , yet possibly - though we ...
... changes . The earth's sur- face , throughout all its earlier periods , appears to have been totally unfit for the residence of any such orders of organised creatures as now constitute its principal inhabitants , yet possibly - though we ...
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Page 227 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 237 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Page 372 - 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.
Page 37 - All in a hot and copper sky, The bloody Sun, at noon. Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
Page 210 - Thy way is in the sea, And thy path in the great waters, And thy footsteps are not known.
Page 210 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 273 - All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Page 158 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Page 176 - Ye ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain — Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — God ! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, God!
Page 27 - I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air...