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 Son, Volumen1Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1833 |
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... resembles , as to its plains , heights , and cavities , that which we inhabit . There may be depths in the Ocean extending to four or five miles , as there are mountains of this height on our dry land ; but until we can find the means ...
... resembles , as to its plains , heights , and cavities , that which we inhabit . There may be depths in the Ocean extending to four or five miles , as there are mountains of this height on our dry land ; but until we can find the means ...
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... resembles our Earth and the Moon , and the other Planets with their Satellites . 13 12 Sir J. South notes the σ of Orion to be of this kind . The first of the six being 8 from the principal , which is of the fifth magnitude . 13 As the ...
... resembles our Earth and the Moon , and the other Planets with their Satellites . 13 12 Sir J. South notes the σ of Orion to be of this kind . The first of the six being 8 from the principal , which is of the fifth magnitude . 13 As the ...
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... resemble that of the others . The three first of the Asteroids take four years and eight months in their sideral revolutions , but Vesta a year less . Pallas deviates from the plane of the Ecliptic considerably more than the other ...
... resemble that of the others . The three first of the Asteroids take four years and eight months in their sideral revolutions , but Vesta a year less . Pallas deviates from the plane of the Ecliptic considerably more than the other ...
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... resemble so closely that of 1772 and 1805 , that its identity with them was suspected and soon ascertained , with some varia- tions in the exact period of its returns , from the inequalities produced by the attraction of Jupiter . At ...
... resemble so closely that of 1772 and 1805 , that its identity with them was suspected and soon ascertained , with some varia- tions in the exact period of its returns , from the inequalities produced by the attraction of Jupiter . At ...
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... resembled an actual secretion of light , additional to their usual show . The presence of the Sun upon them lessens the effect . It is most perceptible in his absence . I have noticed the same occa- sional appearance on the bricks in a ...
... resembled an actual secretion of light , additional to their usual show . The presence of the Sun upon them lessens the effect . It is most perceptible in his absence . I have noticed the same occa- sional appearance on the bricks in a ...
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Página 159 - 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 153 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train : But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds...
Página 157 - 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 36 - 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...
Página 157 - 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 358 - 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 154 - Is beauty, such as blooms not in the glare Of the broad sun. That delicate forest flower, With scented breath, and look so like a smile, Seems as it issues from the shapeless mould, An emanation of the indwelling Life, A visible token of the upholding Love, That are the soul of this wide universe.
Página 335 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 30 - 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 40 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.