Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... constitute its principal inhabitants , yet possibly - though we cannot say pro- bably was then peopled by a race or races of intelli- gent beings of too ethereal or soft - bodied a nature to have left any perceptible traces of their ...
... constitute its principal inhabitants , yet possibly - though we cannot say pro- bably was then peopled by a race or races of intelli- gent beings of too ethereal or soft - bodied a nature to have left any perceptible traces of their ...
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... constitute , though in an- other way , quite as impressive indications of the all- pervading divine agency . The magnitudes and dis- tances of the planets are wonderfully diverse . Their densities , too , are so different , that some ...
... constitute , though in an- other way , quite as impressive indications of the all- pervading divine agency . The magnitudes and dis- tances of the planets are wonderfully diverse . Their densities , too , are so different , that some ...
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... wonders , a platform of " the manifold wisdom of God . " Yet our sun and all its worlds constitute only a single star system . Analogies and facts , which he cannot take time to state , make it highly probable 12 THE SKY .
... wonders , a platform of " the manifold wisdom of God . " Yet our sun and all its worlds constitute only a single star system . Analogies and facts , which he cannot take time to state , make it highly probable 12 THE SKY .
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... car- bonic acid gas - a chemical compound of oxygen and charcoal . These three ingredients always maintain the same , or very nearly the same , proportions to one 1 another , and may be regarded as constituting the pro-
... car- bonic acid gas - a chemical compound of oxygen and charcoal . These three ingredients always maintain the same , or very nearly the same , proportions to one 1 another , and may be regarded as constituting the pro-
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John Marius Wilson. another , and may be regarded as constituting the pro- per atmosphere in its relations to life ... constitute odours . Some are invisible and inconceivably minute reproductive organs of the smallest plants , and of ...
John Marius Wilson. another , and may be regarded as constituting the pro- per atmosphere in its relations to life ... constitute odours . Some are invisible and inconceivably minute reproductive organs of the smallest plants , and 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...