Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... grand and ever - shifting variety of light and shade ; and it seems never to move from one spot of their sky , but may be left behind them by their travelling into their other hemisphere . How curious must it be for the inhabitants of ...
... grand and ever - shifting variety of light and shade ; and it seems never to move from one spot of their sky , but may be left behind them by their travelling into their other hemisphere . How curious must it be for the inhabitants of ...
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... grand in the extreme . A little before three o'clock , a slight shock of an earthquake was felt , accompanied with a noise resembling the distant discharge of ar- tillery . It was now that the increasing gloom en- grossed universal ...
... grand in the extreme . A little before three o'clock , a slight shock of an earthquake was felt , accompanied with a noise resembling the distant discharge of ar- tillery . It was now that the increasing gloom en- grossed universal ...
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... sentences . There is one thought about them , how- ever , which deserves to be dragged into prominence- that , in their grand result , in the character which they give to local climate , particularly in regard to its 50 THE AIR .
... sentences . There is one thought about them , how- ever , which deserves to be dragged into prominence- that , in their grand result , in the character which they give to local climate , particularly in regard to its 50 THE AIR .
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... grand vicissitudes ; and at least two great seasons . Its courses of weather pass on from the rotting calm to the convulsing hurricane ; and its courses of reproduction and growth alternately sink to exhaustion , and go round the circle ...
... grand vicissitudes ; and at least two great seasons . Its courses of weather pass on from the rotting calm to the convulsing hurricane ; and its courses of reproduction and growth alternately sink to exhaustion , and go round the circle ...
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... grand source through- out the solar system is the sun ; a minor source of it , in this part of the universe , is the fixed stars ; and the local sources of it in our world are principally the flashes of the electric fluid , the glow of ...
... grand source through- out the solar system is the sun ; a minor source of it , in this part of the universe , is the fixed stars ; and the local sources of it in our world are principally the flashes of the electric fluid , the glow 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...