The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge : Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a SonW. Jackson, 1832 - 421 páginas |
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... active minds , if these were wisely directed into the actual path of truth and light . Turning out of this , they give us , in their most elaborate efforts to super- sede it , nothing but a succession of butterfly fancies 1 * PREFACE . V.
... active minds , if these were wisely directed into the actual path of truth and light . Turning out of this , they give us , in their most elaborate efforts to super- sede it , nothing but a succession of butterfly fancies 1 * PREFACE . V.
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... active mind , on every point on which its information is slender . It is ignorant of its ignorance , until it gets larger knowledge . The superficial are the most pugnacious ; and we must be superficial before we can be well informed ...
... active mind , on every point on which its information is slender . It is ignorant of its ignorance , until it gets larger knowledge . The superficial are the most pugnacious ; and we must be superficial before we can be well informed ...
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... active powers in some other place , and under such other circumstances as its Creator shall appoint . We are on this earth solely from his special designation . Nei- ther we , nor our ancestors , have ourselves constructed it for our ...
... active powers in some other place , and under such other circumstances as its Creator shall appoint . We are on this earth solely from his special designation . Nei- ther we , nor our ancestors , have ourselves constructed it for our ...
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... active state , wherever either is present , that they are thought to be modifications or different conditions of the same element . When both these occur , we have fire . Fire is luminous heat , or heat in the state of light . The sun's ...
... active state , wherever either is present , that they are thought to be modifications or different conditions of the same element . When both these occur , we have fire . Fire is luminous heat , or heat in the state of light . The sun's ...
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... active agents in the crea- tion , from its very commencement . Water preceded , and began its operations as the Spirit of the Creator directed them . Light descended immediately afterwards , when or- dered , and , and with its ...
... active agents in the crea- tion , from its very commencement . Water preceded , and began its operations as the Spirit of the Creator directed them . Light descended immediately afterwards , when or- dered , and , and with its ...
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action Adolphe Brongniart agency animal appear beautiful become Bingl birds body Bull classes coal color common creation Creator cryptogames dicotyledons display distinct divine earth effect eggs Elohim exhibit existence fact feelings feet fish flowers fluid formation fossil fruit fuci genera genus germination globe grow habits heat hippopotamus Hist human hyæna inches infer inhabitants insects intellectual island Kerr's Linn kind knowledge La Cep larvæ laws leaves lepidodendron lichens light limestone Linnæus living principle lizard mankind material miles mind monocotyledons Mosaic record mosses motion move nature never observed ocean organization oviparous particles peculiar perception phenomena plants present produce quadrupeds radicle reason remarks resemble rocks roots round seeds seems sensations sensible shell species sporules stars subsist substance surface things thought tion trees tribe Univ Uranus vegetable whale young zoophytes
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Página 125 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 122 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 124 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Página 42 - And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day, and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 124 - Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
Página 270 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 34 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Página 124 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat his pleasant fruits.
Página 233 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 39 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.