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... turn away from objects with pain and weariness . The colour of the sky is a deep blue , contrasting pleas- ingly with the soft green of the earth . The blueness of the sky may be caused by the particles of air , and the minute globules ...
... turn away from objects with pain and weariness . The colour of the sky is a deep blue , contrasting pleas- ingly with the soft green of the earth . The blueness of the sky may be caused by the particles of air , and the minute globules ...
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... turn from this aspect of Nature , to that of Revelation , and compare them together , we here , above all , are presented with arguments , analogies , and accommodations , which at once astonish and delight , confound and satisfy , the ...
... turn from this aspect of Nature , to that of Revelation , and compare them together , we here , above all , are presented with arguments , analogies , and accommodations , which at once astonish and delight , confound and satisfy , the ...
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... turn the wheels of corn - mills . The following is an abstract of the account given by Dr Buckland of this remarkable method of extracting a supply of water from the bowels of the earth : - " It appears that there are ex- tensive ...
... turn the wheels of corn - mills . The following is an abstract of the account given by Dr Buckland of this remarkable method of extracting a supply of water from the bowels of the earth : - " It appears that there are ex- tensive ...
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... turn to the sea , yet the additional falls of rain on the hills seem amply sufficient to account for the innumer- able rills and streams which intersect the land in all di- rections . Mr Dalton has calculated , that the quantity of ...
... turn to the sea , yet the additional falls of rain on the hills seem amply sufficient to account for the innumer- able rills and streams which intersect the land in all di- rections . Mr Dalton has calculated , that the quantity of ...
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... Turn but one of his earthly delights into a grief , and he returns quickly to seek , if haply he may revive in his ... turns , and at his footstool is it taught to plead all that he has done in time past , and all that he has engaged to ...
... Turn but one of his earthly delights into a grief , and he returns quickly to seek , if haply he may revive in his ... turns , and at his footstool is it taught to plead all that he has done in time past , and all that he has engaged to ...
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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,