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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... directed to consider it in the formations and system of the material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sen- tient life which appear upon it . The present cor- respondence carries on the ...
... directed to consider it in the formations and system of the material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sen- tient life which appear upon it . The present cor- respondence carries on the ...
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... directing Intelligence LETTER XX . 266 New Formation or Adjustment of the Surface , after the Deluge , so as to produce the Soils fit for human Residence and Cul tivation - And for the present System of Vegetable and Animal Nature ...
... directing Intelligence LETTER XX . 266 New Formation or Adjustment of the Surface , after the Deluge , so as to produce the Soils fit for human Residence and Cul tivation - And for the present System of Vegetable and Animal Nature ...
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... directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and intellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true materials for forming that divine ...
... directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and intellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true materials for forming that divine ...
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... directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the moment- ous importance of the knowledge of these things to every human being ; and the uncertainty in which it may seem to some ...
... directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the moment- ous importance of the knowledge of these things to every human being ; and the uncertainty in which it may seem to some ...
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... directing providence and agencies , it will be proper to require rational evidence correspondent to its importance . We must not create in the imagination , what does not exist in nature . The habit of this fallacy produced most of the ...
... directing providence and agencies , it will be proper to require rational evidence correspondent to its importance . We must not create in the imagination , what does not exist in nature . The habit of this fallacy produced most of the ...
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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...