Essays on the Wisdom of Godauthor, 1818 - 512 pages |
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... covered by the snow are but rarely reduced below the above temperature of thirty - two degrees , which most vegetables can bear without being destroyed . THE FLUIDS WHICH BELONG TO THIS GLOBE . WATER is the first of those fluid bodies I ...
... covered by the snow are but rarely reduced below the above temperature of thirty - two degrees , which most vegetables can bear without being destroyed . THE FLUIDS WHICH BELONG TO THIS GLOBE . WATER is the first of those fluid bodies I ...
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... covered with a curious bark , which is com posed of three layers , one over another . The outermost serves for ... covering over a sort of skeleton of fibres , of a firmer texture , to which these two layers are attached , the one above ...
... covered with a curious bark , which is com posed of three layers , one over another . The outermost serves for ... covering over a sort of skeleton of fibres , of a firmer texture , to which these two layers are attached , the one above ...
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... covering ( ARILLUS ) of their own , for the preservation of the essential parts of fructi- fication . Having considered the curious provision which is made for forming , maturing , and preserving the seed , I shall notice the suitable ...
... covering ( ARILLUS ) of their own , for the preservation of the essential parts of fructi- fication . Having considered the curious provision which is made for forming , maturing , and preserving the seed , I shall notice the suitable ...
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... covered with a number of minute glands , which secrete a sweet liquor that allures the approach of flies . When these parts are touched by the legs of flies , the two lobes of the leaf instantly spring up , the rows of prickles lock ...
... covered with a number of minute glands , which secrete a sweet liquor that allures the approach of flies . When these parts are touched by the legs of flies , the two lobes of the leaf instantly spring up , the rows of prickles lock ...
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... COVERING of birds is at once most perfectly adapted to the preservation of heat , and the exclusion of extreme cold and wet from the skin , while it adds the least possible incumbrance to the body . Professor Sir H. Davy observes , that ...
... COVERING of birds is at once most perfectly adapted to the preservation of heat , and the exclusion of extreme cold and wet from the skin , while it adds the least possible incumbrance to the body . Professor Sir H. Davy observes , that ...
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Page 486 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 487 - And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue ; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance ; and to temperance patience ; and to patience godliness ; and to godliness brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 448 - The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Page 456 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; And having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
Page 506 - The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, 11. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Page 436 - Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
Page 504 - But ye are come unto Mount Zion ; and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem ; and to an innumerable company of angels ; to the general assembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven ; and to God, the Judge of all; and to the spirits of just men made perfect...
Page 478 - This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.
Page 478 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 506 - The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee : but the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down ; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.