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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... germinate , seeds and plants , in order to do so , must be sowed and placed in darkness before they begin to vegetate ... germination , that the seed sown must be defended from the action of the rays of light . " - Encycl . Gard . 194 ...
... germinate , seeds and plants , in order to do so , must be sowed and placed in darkness before they begin to vegetate ... germination , that the seed sown must be defended from the action of the rays of light . " - Encycl . Gard . 194 ...
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... germination is another test of the authenticity of the He- brew cosmogony , which random fiction could not have stood . I was considerably affected in my younger days by the long - standing objection , that Moses made light to exist ...
... germination is another test of the authenticity of the He- brew cosmogony , which random fiction could not have stood . I was considerably affected in my younger days by the long - standing objection , that Moses made light to exist ...
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... germination . Its radicle becoming one of its poles , and the plumula the other . Electricity may cause this . There are 34 families of plants which are voluble : they are chiefly in the torrid zone , and make one turn in 24 hours ...
... germination . Its radicle becoming one of its poles , and the plumula the other . Electricity may cause this . There are 34 families of plants which are voluble : they are chiefly in the torrid zone , and make one turn in 24 hours ...
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... germination as soon as they concur to the seed ; but if the due means for the further nutriment do not accompany the growth , the process stops , and the plant soon dies . Some vegetables - the parasitic tribes - fasten on a larger ...
... germination as soon as they concur to the seed ; but if the due means for the further nutriment do not accompany the growth , the process stops , and the plant soon dies . Some vegetables - the parasitic tribes - fasten on a larger ...
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... germination of seeds much more than chlorine , if they be watered with a solution of it even those which have apparently lost all vital power , may frequently be made to germinate by iodine.t Light represses the evolution of the seed ...
... germination of seeds much more than chlorine , if they be watered with a solution of it even those which have apparently lost all vital power , may frequently be made to germinate by iodine.t Light represses the evolution of the seed ...
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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.