Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Band 2,Ausgabe 72Harper, 1844 |
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... Period of Life - Happiness attainable at every Season LETTER XII . 162 PARADISE - State of Adam and Eve - The Divine Command -The Necessity of such Tuition - Reasons for its Imposi- tion LETTER XIII 192 Considerations on the ...
... Period of Life - Happiness attainable at every Season LETTER XII . 162 PARADISE - State of Adam and Eve - The Divine Command -The Necessity of such Tuition - Reasons for its Imposi- tion LETTER XIII 192 Considerations on the ...
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... period when the human mind has been deviating into so many divergences of thought and action , that it is difficult to foresee into what state it will ultimately subside , it is gratifying to know that there are some who will not desert ...
... period when the human mind has been deviating into so many divergences of thought and action , that it is difficult to foresee into what state it will ultimately subside , it is gratifying to know that there are some who will not desert ...
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... period of his perpetual existence as he thought fit , was pleased to determine upon the fabrication of such a world as our earth exhibits itself to be - upon furnishing it with such living plants and animals as we lately reviewed - and ...
... period of his perpetual existence as he thought fit , was pleased to determine upon the fabrication of such a world as our earth exhibits itself to be - upon furnishing it with such living plants and animals as we lately reviewed - and ...
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... period , without the knowledge of the gracious Power who has caused and superintends it , and so must remain , until some kind friend or parent leads it by degrees to that idea and belief , which its intellectual sensibilities are ...
... period , without the knowledge of the gracious Power who has caused and superintends it , and so must remain , until some kind friend or parent leads it by degrees to that idea and belief , which its intellectual sensibilities are ...
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... period of our individual ex- istence as he thinks most proper . Who that is wise would not rather leave the choice of both points to him , than ex- ercise it for ourselves in such an ignorance of all beyond what we see , as every one of ...
... period of our individual ex- istence as he thinks most proper . Who that is wise would not rather leave the choice of both points to him , than ex- ercise it for ourselves in such an ignorance of all beyond what we see , as every one of ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Seite 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Seite 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Seite 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Seite 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Seite 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Seite 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Seite 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Seite 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Seite 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Seite 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...