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, Том 1J. & J. Harper, no. 82 Cliff-Street. And sold by the booksellers throughout the United States, 1832 |
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... surface must have been covered with the aqueous fluid . Thus the first state of our earth which is noticed to us after the general creation is that of a dark mass , unformed and void , with an abyss within , and whose surface was ...
... surface must have been covered with the aqueous fluid . Thus the first state of our earth which is noticed to us after the general creation is that of a dark mass , unformed and void , with an abyss within , and whose surface was ...
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... surface of the water . " - Mack . Travels , cxvi . Strabo mentions , from Megasthenes , that the Brahmans of India at that time taught that the world was spherical , and had arisen from water , and the Divinity had made it , and ...
... surface of the water . " - Mack . Travels , cxvi . Strabo mentions , from Megasthenes , that the Brahmans of India at that time taught that the world was spherical , and had arisen from water , and the Divinity had made it , and ...
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... surface . ‡ Thus the Mosaic record expresses the true principles of our * Gen . ch . i . ver . 4. With this account of Moses , that of Orpheus , as his verses are cited by Timotheus the chronographer , in Eusebius , sin- gularly ...
... surface . ‡ Thus the Mosaic record expresses the true principles of our * Gen . ch . i . ver . 4. With this account of Moses , that of Orpheus , as his verses are cited by Timotheus the chronographer , in Eusebius , sin- gularly ...
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... surface , than any specific lapse of time . The word is appropriated by us in popular language to mark the appearance as well as the duration of light in its perceptible state , as the term " night " de- notes the period of its ...
... surface , than any specific lapse of time . The word is appropriated by us in popular language to mark the appearance as well as the duration of light in its perceptible state , as the term " night " de- notes the period of its ...
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... surface and of the rocks and agencies immediately below it . The silence of the Mosaic record on the particular history of our geological construction allows free latitude to every speculation , and repels no philosophical investi ...
... surface and of the rocks and agencies immediately below it . The silence of the Mosaic record on the particular history of our geological construction allows free latitude to every speculation , and repels no philosophical investi ...
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Стр. 34 - 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.
Стр. 261 - 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.
Стр. 120 - 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.
Стр. 118 - 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 mild, then silent Night With this her solemn Bird and this fair Moon, And these the gems of Heaven, her starry train...
Стр. 118 - 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" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Стр. 118 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Стр. 225 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Стр. 120 - 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.
Стр. 80 - While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Стр. 330 - ... walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise...