Sacred History of the World Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Band 2Longman, 1834 |
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... population ; by some branches of the Chris- tian portion of it , and almost within the last hundred or hundred and fifty years ; and such progress is making by our philosophers in their investigations into the nature and laws of light ...
... population ; by some branches of the Chris- tian portion of it , and almost within the last hundred or hundred and fifty years ; and such progress is making by our philosophers in their investigations into the nature and laws of light ...
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... population of our own happier day so universally entertain ; especially as the communi- cation of the fact accompanied the first existence of our race . The hostility of some among us to this great verity of Nature , evinces that it may ...
... population of our own happier day so universally entertain ; especially as the communi- cation of the fact accompanied the first existence of our race . The hostility of some among us to this great verity of Nature , evinces that it may ...
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... populations , and were the guiding principles of its construction . There could have been no compelling necessity that these should have been such as we find them to be . As eternal Omnipotence can have no controlling superior , He ...
... populations , and were the guiding principles of its construction . There could have been no compelling necessity that these should have been such as we find them to be . As eternal Omnipotence can have no controlling superior , He ...
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... population here is but a ( sde eμnv Tvxnv εwparɛ ) ; but from what it does now , you can perceive that it exists . O my sons ! I never can be persuaded that my soul is living while in its mortal body , and yet perishes when it is ...
... population here is but a ( sde eμnv Tvxnv εwparɛ ) ; but from what it does now , you can perceive that it exists . O my sons ! I never can be persuaded that my soul is living while in its mortal body , and yet perishes when it is ...
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... population has the same bodies of flesh and blood , as invest our vital principle here . ours . No identity with a nature like ours can be pre- sumed as to the inhabitants of Mercury , on account of its greater proximity to the solar ...
... population has the same bodies of flesh and blood , as invest our vital principle here . ours . No identity with a nature like ours can be pre- sumed as to the inhabitants of Mercury , on account of its greater proximity to the solar ...
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Adam and Eve agencies altho ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character Cicero civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity Deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian Divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact feelings females globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happiness Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish kind knowlege land laws LETTER living males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral Mount Seir mountains nations never ocean operation ourselves peculiar perceive perfect Phenicians Plato pleasure Pliny Plut Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks Sacred History says sensations soil soul spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought thro tion tribes truth vegetation XXVII
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Seite 29 - I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Seite 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Seite 281 - Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
Seite 223 - 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 284 - 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...
Seite 518 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.
Seite 224 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing...
Seite 240 - O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place, — Oh, to abide in the desert with thee ! JAMES HOGG To the Cuckoo O BLITHE new-comer!
Seite 210 - For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream : Then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, And be dandled upon her knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you ; And ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Seite 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.