Essays on the Wisdom of Godauthor, 1818 - 512 pages |
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... There are many animals which live principally in the air , or convey themselves through it from place to place in quest of food , such as winged insects and birds . STRUCTURE OF EGGS - BIRDS . I shall first consider 76 ORGANIZED NATURE .
... There are many animals which live principally in the air , or convey themselves through it from place to place in quest of food , such as winged insects and birds . STRUCTURE OF EGGS - BIRDS . I shall first consider 76 ORGANIZED NATURE .
Page 77
... egg , combines with the shell , and another portion forms feathers . If birds cannot obtain any calcareous earth , they lay their eggs without shells ; but such eggs are not prolific . The general structure of BIRDS , is that of light ...
... egg , combines with the shell , and another portion forms feathers . If birds cannot obtain any calcareous earth , they lay their eggs without shells ; but such eggs are not prolific . The general structure of BIRDS , is that of light ...
Page 90
... egg ; and by them , a lamb , a hare , and three heath - pouts . The nest was about two yards square , and had no ... eggs and the young . Two openings are left at the opposite sides of the nest , both for the THE TAYLOR BIRD'S NEST ...
... egg ; and by them , a lamb , a hare , and three heath - pouts . The nest was about two yards square , and had no ... eggs and the young . Two openings are left at the opposite sides of the nest , both for the THE TAYLOR BIRD'S NEST ...
Page 91
... makes one more advance to safety by fixing it to the leaf itself . It picks up a dead leaf , and , surprising to relate , sews it to the side of a living one , its slender CARE OF BIRDS OVER THEIR EGGS AND YOUNG . bill ORGANIZED NATURE .
... makes one more advance to safety by fixing it to the leaf itself . It picks up a dead leaf , and , surprising to relate , sews it to the side of a living one , its slender CARE OF BIRDS OVER THEIR EGGS AND YOUNG . bill ORGANIZED NATURE .
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Daniel Tyerman. CARE OF BIRDS OVER THEIR EGGS AND YOUNG . bill being its needle , and its thread some fine fibres , the lining , feathers , gossomer , and down . Its eggs are white , and the colour of the bird light yellow ; its length ...
Daniel Tyerman. CARE OF BIRDS OVER THEIR EGGS AND YOUNG . bill being its needle , and its thread some fine fibres , the lining , feathers , gossomer , and down . Its eggs are white , and the colour of the bird light yellow ; its length ...
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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.