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... becomes more genial , sensibly pervades every thing that lives . There is a kind of mysterious sympathy which seems to pass from tribe to tribe of the animated world , and to unite them all in one common hymn of gratitude and praise to ...
... becomes more genial , sensibly pervades every thing that lives . There is a kind of mysterious sympathy which seems to pass from tribe to tribe of the animated world , and to unite them all in one common hymn of gratitude and praise to ...
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... becomes fertility ; from desolation and death start up life and varied beauty , as if beneath the reviv- ing footsteps of a present Deity . Hence result all the beautiful and amazing phenomena of spring . As it is a general property of ...
... becomes fertility ; from desolation and death start up life and varied beauty , as if beneath the reviv- ing footsteps of a present Deity . Hence result all the beautiful and amazing phenomena of spring . As it is a general property of ...
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... become fluids . Now , fluids , as they fall through space , are invariably trans- formed into globules . The phenomena of rain , and of state . molten lead , let fall from a height , are COLOUR AND FIGURE OF BODIES . 15.
... become fluids . Now , fluids , as they fall through space , are invariably trans- formed into globules . The phenomena of rain , and of state . molten lead , let fall from a height , are COLOUR AND FIGURE OF BODIES . 15.
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... sluggish streams , or stagnant lakes , and the whole surface of the ground , more than saturated , would become a vast VOL . II . B marsh , sending forth noxious exhalations , pregnant with disease MOUNTAINS . 17 Mountains,
... sluggish streams , or stagnant lakes , and the whole surface of the ground , more than saturated , would become a vast VOL . II . B marsh , sending forth noxious exhalations , pregnant with disease MOUNTAINS . 17 Mountains,
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... lower strata of the atmosphere in the very same locali- ties . The air becomes rapidly colder , as well as lighter , * Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise , p . 101 . in proportion to its height above the general surface of RAIN . 23.
... lower strata of the atmosphere in the very same locali- ties . The air becomes rapidly colder , as well as lighter , * Whewell's Bridgewater Treatise , p . 101 . in proportion to its height above the general surface of RAIN . 23.
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Page 101 - Seeing then, that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 35 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 70 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 372 - And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Page 39 - And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Page 235 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 372 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent...
Page 235 - And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary...
Page 133 - Alternate triumphed in his breast ; His bliss and woe— a smile, a tear ! Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.
Page 235 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,