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, Volume 3J. & J. Harper, 1838 |
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... quantity of Ground left hitherto un- cultivated LETTER XXXI . 298 The Principle of Animal Nutrition is , that it shall arise from what has had life within it . - Animal and Vegetable Organiza- tions prepare all Human Food . - Facts to ...
... quantity of Ground left hitherto un- cultivated LETTER XXXI . 298 The Principle of Animal Nutrition is , that it shall arise from what has had life within it . - Animal and Vegetable Organiza- tions prepare all Human Food . - Facts to ...
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... quantity has been produced in our world . No such law has therefore peopled it , nor any law of population in the smallest degree approaching to it . For if the law had been that population should double once in 60 years enly , it would ...
... quantity has been produced in our world . No such law has therefore peopled it , nor any law of population in the smallest degree approaching to it . For if the law had been that population should double once in 60 years enly , it would ...
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... quantity , or 1 in 165 in East Flanders . ¶ • The comparative average of the proportions of the whole , in all the counties taken together , was as one to 123 between 1796 and 1800 ; one to 121 between 1806 and 1810 ; and one to 127 ...
... quantity , or 1 in 165 in East Flanders . ¶ • The comparative average of the proportions of the whole , in all the counties taken together , was as one to 123 between 1796 and 1800 ; one to 121 between 1806 and 1810 ; and one to 127 ...
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... quantity of marriages in any country need never alarm us into any discouragement of them . But there is one decisive limitation to marriages , univer- sally produced and universally maintained , by an unvarying law of nature , specially ...
... quantity of marriages in any country need never alarm us into any discouragement of them . But there is one decisive limitation to marriages , univer- sally produced and universally maintained , by an unvarying law of nature , specially ...
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... quantity of coexisting mankind ? Then we shall find that the more in some places and the fewer in others mingle together in a certain level average , which is the actual exhi- bition of the real increase of the earth's population , and ...
... quantity of coexisting mankind ? Then we shall find that the more in some places and the fewer in others mingle together in a certain level average , which is the actual exhi- bition of the real increase of the earth's population , and ...
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Page 382 - And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits.
Page 401 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them. And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it ; if it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.
Page 400 - And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind...
Page 378 - Ye men of Ephesus, what man is there that knoweth not how that the city of the Ephesians is a worshipper of the great goddess Diana, and of the image which fell down from Jupiter?
Page 426 - Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel : Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them. And when he Cometh, he shall smite the land of Egypt, and deliver such as are for death to death ; and such as are for captivity to captivity ; and such as are for the sword to the sword.
Page 402 - And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty : thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress : of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
Page 378 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you, that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living GOD, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein ; who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 292 - For your heavenly Father knoweth that you have need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Page 210 - Milton 50 pounds soon after the restoration, which the bard returned him with honour, though not without much difficulty, as his circumstances were very low. Mr. Hartop would have declined receiving it, but the pride of the poet was equal to his genius, and he sent the money with an angry letter, which was found among the curious possessions of this venerable old man.
Page 416 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.