The Marvels of Science and Their Testimony to Holy WritColburn, 1852 - Всего страниц: 349 |
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... appearance is so minute , that Science , even with its most profound calculations , is unable to determine their pre- cise extent , but probably the largest has not a greater diameter than France . Dr. Olbers , the eminent German ...
... appearance is so minute , that Science , even with its most profound calculations , is unable to determine their pre- cise extent , but probably the largest has not a greater diameter than France . Dr. Olbers , the eminent German ...
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... appearance at once sublime and awful . Twenty - nine and a half years are required to effect its revolution round the sun , though moving , as I have before intimated , with astounding velocity , so as almost to fly round its axis . The ...
... appearance at once sublime and awful . Twenty - nine and a half years are required to effect its revolution round the sun , though moving , as I have before intimated , with astounding velocity , so as almost to fly round its axis . The ...
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... appearance of comets in the sky , with tails of greater or less extent , struck mankind with consternation , and was universally regarded as prophetic of calamity and disaster . Nor is this surprising , seeing that the fevered ...
... appearance of comets in the sky , with tails of greater or less extent , struck mankind with consternation , and was universally regarded as prophetic of calamity and disaster . Nor is this surprising , seeing that the fevered ...
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... thousand years when its first appearance is recorded , originally sur- passed the sun in lustre , stretching like a beam across the heavens ; but from that time , its 40 PROJECTILE FORCE . figure and magnitude have sensibly altered.
... thousand years when its first appearance is recorded , originally sur- passed the sun in lustre , stretching like a beam across the heavens ; but from that time , its 40 PROJECTILE FORCE . figure and magnitude have sensibly altered.
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... appearance has been mentioned before , as con- stituting what is commonly designated a fault , and forms a curious feature in the earth's history . Indeed , it is hence made apparent , that although the plutonic structure , viewed as a ...
... appearance has been mentioned before , as con- stituting what is commonly designated a fault , and forms a curious feature in the earth's history . Indeed , it is hence made apparent , that although the plutonic structure , viewed as a ...
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Стр. 208 - They mount up to the heaven; they go down again to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble. They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wits
Стр. 131 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Стр. 208 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses. He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet ; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
Стр. 5 - The best book of its kind in the English language. The new matter is extremely curious, and occasionally far more characteristic and entertaining than the old. The writer is seen in a clearer light, and the reader is taken into his inmost soul. * Pepys' Diary" is the ablest picture of the age in which the writer lived, and a work of standard importance in English literature.
Стр. 110 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Стр. 268 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Стр. 235 - THERE be none of Beauty's daughters With a magic like thee ; And like music on the waters Is thy sweet voice to me : When, as if its sound were causing The charmed ocean's pausing, The waves lie still and gleaming, And the lull'd winds seem dreaming, And the midnight moon is weaving Her bright chain o'er the deep ; Whose breast is gently heaving, As an infant's asleep : So the spirit bows before thee, To listen and adore thee ; With a full but soft emotion, Like the swell of Summer's ocean.
Стр. 15 - EXPLORATION IN CANADA, &c. 2 vols., post 8vo, with numerous Illustrations, 12s. bound. • " Replete with valuable information on Canada for the English settler, the English soldier, and the English Government ; with- various charms of adventure and description for the desultory reader.
Стр. 207 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth; when he established the clouds above; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth : then I was by him, as one brought up with him; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Стр. 3 - Derception of character and manners, a penetrating spirit of observation, and singular exactness of judgment. The memoirs are richly fraught with the spirit of romantic adventure." — Horning Post. " This work is a worthy companion to Miss Strickland's admirable