Earth, Sea and Sky, Or, the Hand of God in the Works of Nature, Volume 1T. Nelson, 1859 - 416 pages |
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... less characterises all the known subor- dinate departments of the divine works . The earth , too , has a most intricate adjustment of all its ingre- dients and specially of what are presumed to be its veculiar ingredients - on the one ...
... less characterises all the known subor- dinate departments of the divine works . The earth , too , has a most intricate adjustment of all its ingre- dients and specially of what are presumed to be its veculiar ingredients - on the one ...
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... less pressure than when very dry . How curious that , in rainy weather , when sen- sitive persons feel languid , and " as if a load were on them , " they really sustain very many pounds less pres- sure than in fair weather , when they ...
... less pressure than when very dry . How curious that , in rainy weather , when sen- sitive persons feel languid , and " as if a load were on them , " they really sustain very many pounds less pres- sure than in fair weather , when they ...
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... less dense , or nine times more expanded than water , fall , on the average , three times less slowly ; and the largest flakes are commonly formed in a frost so mild as to make the crystals soft and humid , and to allow them to cohere ...
... less dense , or nine times more expanded than water , fall , on the average , three times less slowly ; and the largest flakes are commonly formed in a frost so mild as to make the crystals soft and humid , and to allow them to cohere ...
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... less , prevents the internal heat of the earth from radiating into the atmosphere , and preserves the surface of the land from congelation by subsequent frost ; and it therefore ameliorates the soil in winter , protects the life of the ...
... less , prevents the internal heat of the earth from radiating into the atmosphere , and preserves the surface of the land from congelation by subsequent frost ; and it therefore ameliorates the soil in winter , protects the life of the ...
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... less needed for any uses of organic existence than on land , is one of the most dismal themes of human thought . Whoever has witnessed one in the tropics will give a ready response to the well - known lines of Cole- ridge , - « All in a ...
... less needed for any uses of organic existence than on land , is one of the most dismal themes of human thought . Whoever has witnessed one in the tropics will give a ready response to the well - known lines of Cole- ridge , - « All in a ...
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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...