Six Thousand Years Ago, Or, the Works of Creation IllustratedBinns and Goodwin, 1844 - 168 páginas |
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... present generation - few indeed were the advantages enjoyed by young persons in the acquirement of knowledge , com- pared with what they now possess . Literature for them was then comprised under two distinct heads - the Amusing and the ...
... present generation - few indeed were the advantages enjoyed by young persons in the acquirement of knowledge , com- pared with what they now possess . Literature for them was then comprised under two distinct heads - the Amusing and the ...
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... present you with this volume . You are past the age of infancy , the time of dolls and drums , and are now entering upon a more important portion of life . I therefore do not purpose to treat you as children , but as rational creatures ...
... present you with this volume . You are past the age of infancy , the time of dolls and drums , and are now entering upon a more important portion of life . I therefore do not purpose to treat you as children , but as rational creatures ...
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... present a most interesting subject for our notice . Have you never ob- served a plant in your garden slowly expanding its florets as the grey twilight emerged into bright and open day , again to shut them all up closely when darkness ...
... present a most interesting subject for our notice . Have you never ob- served a plant in your garden slowly expanding its florets as the grey twilight emerged into bright and open day , again to shut them all up closely when darkness ...
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... present chapter is of the sublimest character . " For the heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament showeth his handy work . " The Almighty fiat was again . heard throughout the universe , " Let there be lights in the ...
... present chapter is of the sublimest character . " For the heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament showeth his handy work . " The Almighty fiat was again . heard throughout the universe , " Let there be lights in the ...
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... present century com- menced , and which are so small , that if all were put to- gether they would not be larger than the moon . They are also termed Telescopic Planets , as they cannot be discerned without the aid of a very powerful ...
... present century com- menced , and which are so small , that if all were put to- gether they would not be larger than the moon . They are also termed Telescopic Planets , as they cannot be discerned without the aid of a very powerful ...
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Six Thousand Years Ago: or, the Works of Creation illustrated. With ... M. C. BEST Vista completa - 1849 |
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Página 85 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible.
Página 158 - Sing, O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it: shout, ye lower parts of the earth: break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every tree therein: for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Israel.
Página 33 - He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.
Página 13 - 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.
Página 84 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Página 160 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...
Página 159 - Oh, how unlike the complex works of man, Heaven's easy, artless, unencumber'd plan ! No meretricious graces to beguile, No clustering ornaments to clog the pile ; From ostentation as from weakness free, It stands like the cerulean arch we see, Majestic in its own simplicity. Inscribed above the portal, from afar Conspicuous as the brightness of a star, Legible only by the light they give, Stand the soul-quickening words — BELIEVE, AND LIVE.
Página 158 - I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins : return unto me ; for I have redeemed thee.
Página 14 - There is no speech nor language, Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, And their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...
Página 29 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.