Sacred philosophy of the seasons, Том 1William Oliphant and son, 1836 |
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... direct communication from Heaven , a most ominous gloom hangs over these attributes , and sheds mys- tery , anxiety , and doubt on the future destiny of man . One great object of the Author , in the following pages , is to counteract ...
... direct communication from Heaven , a most ominous gloom hangs over these attributes , and sheds mys- tery , anxiety , and doubt on the future destiny of man . One great object of the Author , in the following pages , is to counteract ...
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... direct rays . The disadvantages of such an arrange- ment need no comment . Now , one way in which this evil is abated , is by what is called the diurnal rotation of the earth . Our globe is made to whirl round as on two pivots , which ...
... direct rays . The disadvantages of such an arrange- ment need no comment . Now , one way in which this evil is abated , is by what is called the diurnal rotation of the earth . Our globe is made to whirl round as on two pivots , which ...
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... direct rays upon the equator , appears to be continually traversing a considerable space in the heavens , shifting from tropic to tropic , and pre- senting himself for one half of the year to the north , and for the other half to the ...
... direct rays upon the equator , appears to be continually traversing a considerable space in the heavens , shifting from tropic to tropic , and pre- senting himself for one half of the year to the north , and for the other half to the ...
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... direct rays of the sun , oscillating between two defined limits , and subjects all the rest , more or less , to his ob- lique , and therefore less powerful , influence . The effect of this is , the production of all the varieties of ...
... direct rays of the sun , oscillating between two defined limits , and subjects all the rest , more or less , to his ob- lique , and therefore less powerful , influence . The effect of this is , the production of all the varieties of ...
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... direct in- fluence of an intense heat co - operates with the more indirect cause we are now considering , in producing this enervated state , it may be difficult to determine ; but that it is not the only , or indeed the chief agent ...
... direct in- fluence of an intense heat co - operates with the more indirect cause we are now considering , in producing this enervated state , it may be difficult to determine ; but that it is not the only , or indeed the chief agent ...
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Стр. 348 - 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
Стр. 358 - 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.
Стр. 366 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Стр. 123 - The beauties of the wilderness are his, That make so gay the solitary place Where no eye sees them. And the fairer forms That cultivation glories in, are his. He sets the bright procession on its way, And marshals all the order of the year. He marks the bounds which winter may not pass, 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.
Стр. 59 - 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,
Стр. 343 - 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.
Стр. 349 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Стр. 247 - But wandering oft, with brute unconscious gaze, Man marks not thee, marks not the mighty hand, That, ever busy, wheels the silent spheres; Works in the secret deep ; shoots, steaming, thence The fair profusion that o'erspreads the Spring...
Стр. 367 - O'er mountain tower and town, Or mirrored in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down. As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam.
Стр. 28 - Hitherto shalt thou come and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.