The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Band 2Harper & Bros., 1838 |
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... observe and delineate the divine economy in its more special reference to mankind , and to exhibit the plans , and principles , and purposes , which seem to have been pursued with respect to them , and to the progression of human nature ...
... observe and delineate the divine economy in its more special reference to mankind , and to exhibit the plans , and principles , and purposes , which seem to have been pursued with respect to them , and to the progression of human nature ...
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... . LETTER XV . 220 A few Observations on the Causes and Objects of the GENERAL DELUGE , and on the State of our historical information con- cerning it 230 LETTER XVI . ANCIENT TRADITIONS of the DELUGE in Chaldea X CONTENTS .
... . LETTER XV . 220 A few Observations on the Causes and Objects of the GENERAL DELUGE , and on the State of our historical information con- cerning it 230 LETTER XVI . ANCIENT TRADITIONS of the DELUGE in Chaldea X CONTENTS .
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... observations of the elongations of her satellites . " I think it would have astonished the mathematicians of antiquity , as much as the populace , to be told that this splendid planet could ever be weighed and measured by a human being ...
... observations of the elongations of her satellites . " I think it would have astonished the mathematicians of antiquity , as much as the populace , to be told that this splendid planet could ever be weighed and measured by a human being ...
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... observations that will form our present corre- spondence , as it was of our former one . What is true of the whole universe is equally so of our separate globe ; and in this , peculiarly so of our human race , as the most prominent of ...
... observations that will form our present corre- spondence , as it was of our former one . What is true of the whole universe is equally so of our separate globe ; and in this , peculiarly so of our human race , as the most prominent of ...
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... observation of natural things , which will alone give due knowledge of them ; and of that practised discernment of their several relations and connected effects , which enable so many acute thinkers in our age to support the sublime ...
... observation of natural things , which will alone give due knowledge of them ; and of that practised discernment of their several relations and connected effects , which enable so many acute thinkers in our age to support the sublime ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabian Arabs arise attained beautiful become Bedouins 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 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 spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Seite 176 - What was so fugitive ! 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...
Seite 176 - 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; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Seite 219 - 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 428 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Seite 386 - For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord : and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
Seite 160 - Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine...
Seite 173 - I HEARD a thousand blended notes, While in a grove I sat reclined, In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
Seite 175 - 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 217 - Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right ; if the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
Seite 174 - STAY near me — do not take thy flight ! A little longer stay in sight ! Much converse do I find in Thee, Historian of my Infancy ! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee : Thou bring'st, gay Creature as thou art ! A solemn image to my heart...