Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen 2,Número 72Harper, 1844 |
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... became combined into the cohering aggregations in which we behold them . The science displayed in nature is evidence , tha ! every part which exhibits it has been scientifically con- structed , and therefore by a scientific or ...
... became combined into the cohering aggregations in which we behold them . The science displayed in nature is evidence , tha ! every part which exhibits it has been scientifically con- structed , and therefore by a scientific or ...
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... became obsolete or forgotten by some nations ; and that other theories of the origin of things , although as fantastic as ignorance or folly could make them , were substituted instead . Though some few minds at all times seem to have ...
... became obsolete or forgotten by some nations ; and that other theories of the origin of things , although as fantastic as ignorance or folly could make them , were substituted instead . Though some few minds at all times seem to have ...
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... became a settled opinion at all in the world that the earth was the planned and deliberate creation of an intelli- gent God . Nor does any one seem to have conceived it to have been so , in that clear and full meaning , sublimity and ...
... became a settled opinion at all in the world that the earth was the planned and deliberate creation of an intelli- gent God . Nor does any one seem to have conceived it to have been so , in that clear and full meaning , sublimity and ...
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... became the adopted tenets of the neglected spirit ; and thus a hopeless atheism would now be the universal governor of the human mind , if the Jewish and Christian revelations had not rescued human nature from such deterioration and ...
... became the adopted tenets of the neglected spirit ; and thus a hopeless atheism would now be the universal governor of the human mind , if the Jewish and Christian revelations had not rescued human nature from such deterioration and ...
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... became the stars While Xenophanes contended that they were inflamed clouds , quenched during the day , and lighted again like coals every night , and that this explained their setting and rising , c . 13. Archelaus made them redhot ...
... became the stars While Xenophanes contended that they were inflamed clouds , quenched during the day , and lighted again like coals every night , and that this explained their setting and rising , c . 13. Archelaus made them redhot ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Página 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Página 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Página 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Página 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Página 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Página 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Página 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Página 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Página 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Página 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...