Sacred History of the World Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volumen2Longman, 1834 |
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... directed to consider it , in the formations and system of the material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sentient life which appear upon it . The present Correspondence carries on the ...
... directed to consider it , in the formations and system of the material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sentient life which appear upon it . The present Correspondence carries on the ...
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... directing Intelligence - page 351 LETTER XX . New Formation or Adjustment of the Surface , after the Deluge , so as to produce the Soils fit for human Residence and Cul- tivation - And for the present System of vegetable and animal ...
... directing Intelligence - page 351 LETTER XX . New Formation or Adjustment of the Surface , after the Deluge , so as to produce the Soils fit for human Residence and Cul- tivation - And for the present System of vegetable and animal ...
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... directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and in- tellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true ma- terials for forming that divine ...
... directing itself to the study and promotion of the natural sciences . They enlarge the mind and in- tellectualize the life : they raise us above inferior gratifications and pursuits , and are the true ma- terials for forming that divine ...
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... directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the momentous importance of the knowlege of these things to every human being ; and the uncertainty in which it may seem to some ...
... directed , and especially in their personal application to each of us respectively . Nothing can exceed the momentous importance of the knowlege of these things to every human being ; and the uncertainty in which it may seem to some ...
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... directing Providence and agencies , it will be proper to require rational evidence correspondent to its importance . We must not create in the imagination , what does not exist in nature . The habit of this fallacy produced most of the ...
... directing Providence and agencies , it will be proper to require rational evidence correspondent to its importance . We must not create in the imagination , what does not exist in nature . The habit of this fallacy produced most of the ...
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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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Página 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.
Página 223 - O joy ! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 210 - When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.