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, Band 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1834 |
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... tion of them . These acquisitions can be realised only from the sources which He has provided for this purpose to us , and these will always be His works , His ways and His express communications . The study of these will constitute ...
... tion of them . These acquisitions can be realised only from the sources which He has provided for this purpose to us , and these will always be His works , His ways and His express communications . The study of these will constitute ...
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... tion . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur * telligent ; the one in form , and the incorruptible ; and when it goes from hence ...
... tion . Such results are evidence of a contriving and presiding mind , and are what intelligent agency alone could produce . When effects or events occur * telligent ; the one in form , and the incorruptible ; and when it goes from hence ...
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... tion . We need not therefore dread any thing on this ground from the study of our diviner science . Increase of knowlege always puts our minds into a different state to that which they were in before it accrued . New thoughts and views ...
... tion . We need not therefore dread any thing on this ground from the study of our diviner science . Increase of knowlege always puts our minds into a different state to that which they were in before it accrued . New thoughts and views ...
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... tion . Hence it becomes insulated from all our other knowlege and power , and withers away from a con- siderable part of our social mind , because we will not cultivate it . Thus our ideas and views on this remain unallied with all our ...
... tion . Hence it becomes insulated from all our other knowlege and power , and withers away from a con- siderable part of our social mind , because we will not cultivate it . Thus our ideas and views on this remain unallied with all our ...
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... tion of the world , and was the most informed of all his countrymen , yet was so paralysed in his own judgment by the chaos of the opinions he found started on this topic , that , in his most elaborate work upon it , he contents himself ...
... tion of the world , and was the most informed of all his countrymen , yet was so paralysed in his own judgment by the chaos of the opinions he found started on this topic , that , in his most elaborate work upon it , he contents himself ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam and Eve agencies altho ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise attained 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 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 universal vegetation
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 220 - My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
Seite 281 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Seite 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Seite 281 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
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 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 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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 510 - And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.