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, Volumen2Harper, 1835 |
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... portion of our globe . By such successive efforts , long unavailing , the grand princi ples of all our natural sciences have been unfolded ; * and the same results must be expected in all endeavours to per- ceive and elucidate the ...
... portion of our globe . By such successive efforts , long unavailing , the grand princi ples of all our natural sciences have been unfolded ; * and the same results must be expected in all endeavours to per- ceive and elucidate the ...
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... portion of Cicero's diversified attention . But all these great men show us the continuity of the will , rather than any success in accom- plishing it . They wanted too much farther knowledge , both human and divine , to make any ...
... portion of Cicero's diversified attention . But all these great men show us the continuity of the will , rather than any success in accom- plishing it . They wanted too much farther knowledge , both human and divine , to make any ...
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... portion of that banquet here , which we shall delight to enjoy more amply hereafter . We may then say with our same poet , who , amid some superfluities that we would prune , pours out many a noble effusion , - " Lorenzo ! these are ...
... portion of that banquet here , which we shall delight to enjoy more amply hereafter . We may then say with our same poet , who , amid some superfluities that we would prune , pours out many a noble effusion , - " Lorenzo ! these are ...
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... portions of it are , which has not recipro- cal relations ? We cannot avoid silently criticising ourselves full as much as others act the censors to us ; and therefore we shall not feel that we are in the right intellectual state and ...
... portions of it are , which has not recipro- cal relations ? We cannot avoid silently criticising ourselves full as much as others act the censors to us ; and therefore we shall not feel that we are in the right intellectual state and ...
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... portion of human notice and belief . It is the present tendency of the mind to search into the principles and causes of every thing ; to inquire into the rea- sons , to examine the utilities , and to watch and estimate the propriety of ...
... portion of human notice and belief . It is the present tendency of the mind to search into the principles and causes of every thing ; to inquire into the rea- sons , to examine the utilities , and to watch and estimate the propriety of ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabian Arabs arise beautiful become Bedouin 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 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 males mankind means mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive perfect 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 vols