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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... inches of water . But " the mean fall of rain over all Great Britain , cannot be estimated at less than 36 inches . Hence the evaporation is less than the rain by four inches . This excess must be supplied from the neighboring seas ...
... inches of water . But " the mean fall of rain over all Great Britain , cannot be estimated at less than 36 inches . Hence the evaporation is less than the rain by four inches . This excess must be supplied from the neighboring seas ...
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... inches distance , He computed the and the light of one of these , at this distance , to correspond with that of 144 moons . He therefore inferred the sun to exceed the moon in brilliancy 801,072 times . Feruss . B. U. Sept. 1830 , p ...
... inches distance , He computed the and the light of one of these , at this distance , to correspond with that of 144 moons . He therefore inferred the sun to exceed the moon in brilliancy 801,072 times . Feruss . B. U. Sept. 1830 , p ...
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... inch reflecting mirror opposed to the light of a full moon , the liquor sank in half a minute eight degrees !! ( 32 ) " Men on board a ship , while lying in the moonlight with their faces exposed to the beams , often have their muscles ...
... inch reflecting mirror opposed to the light of a full moon , the liquor sank in half a minute eight degrees !! ( 32 ) " Men on board a ship , while lying in the moonlight with their faces exposed to the beams , often have their muscles ...
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... inches long . The stones adhered strongly to the substance of the stomach , and were cut out from it . Quart . Jour . Scien . No. 10. p . 443 . ( 28 ) Smith's Introd . 99. Germination will sometimes begin without either earth or water ...
... inches long . The stones adhered strongly to the substance of the stomach , and were cut out from it . Quart . Jour . Scien . No. 10. p . 443 . ( 28 ) Smith's Introd . 99. Germination will sometimes begin without either earth or water ...
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... inches . A ray of small globular leaves , of the most delicate and lovely whiteness , are inclosed by others of a deep orange color . " Macclesfield Courier . ( 36 ) Dobreener put earth sowed with barley under two glass vessels , in one ...
... inches . A ray of small globular leaves , of the most delicate and lovely whiteness , are inclosed by others of a deep orange color . " Macclesfield Courier . ( 36 ) Dobreener put earth sowed with barley under two glass vessels , in one ...
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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.