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... as in that on “ Winter , ” the argument commencing with the consi- deration of the arrangements and adaptations of in- organic matter , and thence proceeding from the low- est to the highest of organized existences , through the.
... as in that on “ Winter , ” the argument commencing with the consi- deration of the arrangements and adaptations of in- organic matter , and thence proceeding from the low- est to the highest of organized existences , through the.
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Henry Duncan. est to the highest of organized existences , through the various genera of plants and animals . The latter part of the Volume is devoted to an exemplification of those adaptations and properties in the soil , and in ...
Henry Duncan. est to the highest of organized existences , through the various genera of plants and animals . The latter part of the Volume is devoted to an exemplification of those adaptations and properties in the soil , and in ...
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... organized existences , such as we find it in our own latitude , would receive so violent an impulse , as would be attended with many injurious consequences . There is here , therefore , a wise adaptation ; but the proper way of viewing ...
... organized existences , such as we find it in our own latitude , would receive so violent an impulse , as would be attended with many injurious consequences . There is here , therefore , a wise adaptation ; but the proper way of viewing ...
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... organized existences produced by the soil . But there are other particulars also , which must not be for- gotten . Among these , the provision by which the rain is made to fall softly on the earth , and to be diffused in due proportions ...
... organized existences produced by the soil . But there are other particulars also , which must not be for- gotten . Among these , the provision by which the rain is made to fall softly on the earth , and to be diffused in due proportions ...
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... organized beings , that , whereas plants require only occasional sup- plies of this fluid , at considerable intervals , and are most luxuriant when , at particular seasons of the year , rainy weather is followed by uninterrupted ...
... organized beings , that , whereas plants require only occasional sup- plies of this fluid , at considerable intervals , and are most luxuriant when , at particular seasons of the year , rainy weather is followed by uninterrupted ...
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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,