Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons: Illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year, Volumen 1Harper & brothers, 1847 |
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... Greenland , and even Germany . Meteoric showers were seen off the coast of Spain , and in the Ohio country , on the morning of 13th November , 1831 ; and during many hours on the morning of 13th November , 1832 , prodigious multitudes ...
... Greenland , and even Germany . Meteoric showers were seen off the coast of Spain , and in the Ohio country , on the morning of 13th November , 1831 ; and during many hours on the morning of 13th November , 1832 , prodigious multitudes ...
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... Greenland , and the other countries bor- dering on the Arctic circle , are not less degraded in the scale of intellect than the Negro race in the torrid wilds of Africa . It is in the regions within the Temperate zones , that the mind ...
... Greenland , and the other countries bor- dering on the Arctic circle , are not less degraded in the scale of intellect than the Negro race in the torrid wilds of Africa . It is in the regions within the Temperate zones , that the mind ...
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... Greenland , and the countries bordering on Baffin's Bay , where the rein - deer is but seldom , if at all , domes- ticated , the inhabitants have other means of supplying , though less comfortably , the necessaries of life which this ...
... Greenland , and the countries bordering on Baffin's Bay , where the rein - deer is but seldom , if at all , domes- ticated , the inhabitants have other means of supplying , though less comfortably , the necessaries of life which this ...
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... Greenland whale is supposed to live only on medusa or shrimps ; but the cachalot , [ or spermaceti whale , ] and its varieties , are exceedingly voracious . rapacious shark , each of which devours the inferior tribes ANIMAL AND ...
... Greenland whale is supposed to live only on medusa or shrimps ; but the cachalot , [ or spermaceti whale , ] and its varieties , are exceedingly voracious . rapacious shark , each of which devours the inferior tribes ANIMAL AND ...
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... Greenland , or amidst the icebergs of Spitzbergen . It is impossible not to admire the care which Provi- dence has thus manifested , at once to preserve the winged tribes from the fatal effects of a change of climate , too severe for ...
... Greenland , or amidst the icebergs of Spitzbergen . It is impossible not to admire the care which Provi- dence has thus manifested , at once to preserve the winged tribes from the fatal effects of a change of climate , too severe for ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 242 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Página 373 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Página 355 - And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven ; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons
Página 77 - My grace is sufficient for thee, my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Página 368 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
Página 374 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Página 225 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Página 354 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Página 146 - And blunts his pointed fury ; in its case, Russet and rude, folds up the tender germ Uninjured, with inimitable art ; And ere one flowery season fades and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next.
Página 350 - 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.