Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... Characters and Classes of Mammals , ......... Page 300 326 CHAPTER XV . THE ECONOMY OF ANIMALS . Specific Life - Aggregations of Cells - The Circulating System -- Blood -Respiration - The Alimentary System - The Tooth System - Sum- mary ...
... Characters and Classes of Mammals , ......... Page 300 326 CHAPTER XV . THE ECONOMY OF ANIMALS . Specific Life - Aggregations of Cells - The Circulating System -- Blood -Respiration - The Alimentary System - The Tooth System - Sum- mary ...
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... all the epoch of man's existence , the earth pos- sesses a most exalted character , and exhibits most wondrous blendings of physical and moral things , and sustains most glorious relations to far distant regions of the THE SKY . 3.
... all the epoch of man's existence , the earth pos- sesses a most exalted character , and exhibits most wondrous blendings of physical and moral things , and sustains most glorious relations to far distant regions of the THE SKY . 3.
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... character or extraordinary diversity of its living wonders . The whole analogy of things on carth suggests the probability , we might almost say the cer- tainty , that varieties and contrasts of constitution , in different worlds , are ...
... character or extraordinary diversity of its living wonders . The whole analogy of things on carth suggests the probability , we might almost say the cer- tainty , that varieties and contrasts of constitution , in different worlds , are ...
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... character of a stupendous world of itself with the character of a life - centre to many other worlds , are wonders which no man can explain . Eclipses are phenomena which always interest the curious , and generally astonish or terrify ...
... character of a stupendous world of itself with the character of a life - centre to many other worlds , are wonders which no man can explain . Eclipses are phenomena which always interest the curious , and generally astonish or terrify ...
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... character to the rings of Saturn . Comets also move round the sun , but are exceedingly numerous and various ; and most of them , on the one hand , go very near the sun , and on the other , pass far beyond Neptune into the depths of ...
... character to the rings of Saturn . Comets also move round the sun , but are exceedingly numerous and various ; and most of them , on the one hand , go very near the sun , and on the other , pass far beyond Neptune into the depths of ...
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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...