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, Volumen 1J. & J. Harper, 1833 |
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... facts - to state them fairly to reason correctly about them - to express the natural feelings which have arisen as they were contemplated - and to make the general composition perspicuous , readable , and , if possible , not uninter ...
... facts - to state them fairly to reason correctly about them - to express the natural feelings which have arisen as they were contemplated - and to make the general composition perspicuous , readable , and , if possible , not uninter ...
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... Facts - No spontaneous Production of Plants - Their reproductive System 109 LETTER VI . Brief Review of the Uses of Plants in the System of Cre- ation - Actions and Phenomena of their Living Prin- ciple . . 142 LETTER VII . The local ...
... Facts - No spontaneous Production of Plants - Their reproductive System 109 LETTER VI . Brief Review of the Uses of Plants in the System of Cre- ation - Actions and Phenomena of their Living Prin- ciple . . 142 LETTER VII . The local ...
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... Fact and sound reasoning should always agree and illustrate each other . If our facts and our rea- sonings do not concur , one of these must be erroneous . And , as in all revealed truths , what is revealed must be true , if that is ...
... Fact and sound reasoning should always agree and illustrate each other . If our facts and our rea- sonings do not concur , one of these must be erroneous . And , as in all revealed truths , what is revealed must be true , if that is ...
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... facts are taken , but with the exercise of that mental investigation which is usually termed philosophical . No arrogant assumption is intended by this epithet : it is a word which is used to denote an in- quiry into the principles of ...
... facts are taken , but with the exercise of that mental investigation which is usually termed philosophical . No arrogant assumption is intended by this epithet : it is a word which is used to denote an in- quiry into the principles of ...
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... fact which could be certainly known to us only from revelation , as no human eye could have witnessed the event ; and because the greatest minds of antiquity were in doubt and darkness , and in opposition to each other on this subject ...
... fact which could be certainly known to us only from revelation , as no human eye could have witnessed the event ; and because the greatest minds of antiquity were in doubt and darkness , and in opposition to each other on this subject ...
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Página 114 - 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 116 - 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 188 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Página 116 - 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 39 - 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 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,
Página 117 - 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. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun Shoots full perfection...
Página 257 - 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 116 - Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; Blow upon my garden, That the spices thereof may flow out.
Página 32 - 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.