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... adapted for climbing . The field mouse , for in- stance , which can run up a stack of corn ; and all swift moving , and defenceless quadrupeds are thus constructed . The digging foot which is assigned to the mole , or one re- sembling ...
... adapted for climbing . The field mouse , for in- stance , which can run up a stack of corn ; and all swift moving , and defenceless quadrupeds are thus constructed . The digging foot which is assigned to the mole , or one re- sembling ...
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... adapted to resist the effect of temperature and soil . Campbell mentions , that while crossing one of these burning plains , he remarked several creeping plants of luxuriant vegetation . Now it is well known , that the plants of Africa ...
... adapted to resist the effect of temperature and soil . Campbell mentions , that while crossing one of these burning plains , he remarked several creeping plants of luxuriant vegetation . Now it is well known , that the plants of Africa ...
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... adapted for the kind of life , to which Providence assigns them ; for we cannot admit , that as these vegetables are furnished with large sap - vessels for absorbing moisture , and with others , through which the moisture distils into ...
... adapted for the kind of life , to which Providence assigns them ; for we cannot admit , that as these vegetables are furnished with large sap - vessels for absorbing moisture , and with others , through which the moisture distils into ...
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... adapted for the reception of the hands and feet . The natives , therefore , run nimbly up the towering phoenix , and even boys and women are not afraid to venture . This noble tree attains its greatest perfection in the vast deserts of ...
... adapted for the reception of the hands and feet . The natives , therefore , run nimbly up the towering phoenix , and even boys and women are not afraid to venture . This noble tree attains its greatest perfection in the vast deserts of ...
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... adapted to the same end . The flowers , too , how admirably are they made ; they are fur- nished with nectaries , and secrete a sweet juice ; they are often so arranged as to supply resting places for the little feet , while the ...
... adapted to the same end . The flowers , too , how admirably are they made ; they are fur- nished with nectaries , and secrete a sweet juice ; they are often so arranged as to supply resting places for the little feet , while the ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Seite 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Seite 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Seite 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Seite 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Seite 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Seite 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Seite 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Seite 61 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Seite 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.