Revelations of Egyptian Mysteries and Allegories of the Greek Lyric Poets Clearly Interpreted: History of the Works of Nature, with a Discourse on Health, According with the Wisdom of the AncientsColburn, 1850 - 284 pages |
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... less perfect or extensive , and less reflective state , as it does in brutes , is com- monly called instinct . The senses of vision , hearing , tasting , touching , and smelling , furnish knowledge of surrounding objects and ...
... less perfect or extensive , and less reflective state , as it does in brutes , is com- monly called instinct . The senses of vision , hearing , tasting , touching , and smelling , furnish knowledge of surrounding objects and ...
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... less brilliant in propor- tion to the extent of the fund of its ideas , and the skill and judgment with which it employs them . The mind , more particularly in early life , like the body , requires aliment , and therefore , searches for ...
... less brilliant in propor- tion to the extent of the fund of its ideas , and the skill and judgment with which it employs them . The mind , more particularly in early life , like the body , requires aliment , and therefore , searches for ...
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... less extent , oc- curred over the surface of the earth , and by means of their force , the hard stony crust was rent , and raised up through the superincumbent soft stratum , and the fractured portions , more or less widely sepa- rated ...
... less extent , oc- curred over the surface of the earth , and by means of their force , the hard stony crust was rent , and raised up through the superincumbent soft stratum , and the fractured portions , more or less widely sepa- rated ...
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... less liable to earthquakes than those where the surface was more solid . He says he had observed this at Naples . He accordingly tells us that there is a remedy for earthquakes , in the making of deep excavations and holes in many parts ...
... less liable to earthquakes than those where the surface was more solid . He says he had observed this at Naples . He accordingly tells us that there is a remedy for earthquakes , in the making of deep excavations and holes in many parts ...
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... less remarkable for its clearness , purity , and rich fragrance . Over the sides of Etna are scat- tered no less than seventy - seven cities , towns , and villages . All the most fertile parts of the earth are marked by traces of ...
... less remarkable for its clearness , purity , and rich fragrance . Over the sides of Etna are scat- tered no less than seventy - seven cities , towns , and villages . All the most fertile parts of the earth are marked by traces of ...
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Page 162 - This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.
Page 138 - I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls...
Page 175 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; We have waited for him, and he will save us: This is the Lord ; we have waited for him , We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Page 92 - And immediately I was in the Spirit ; and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne : and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 161 - And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 106 - And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people.
Page 162 - FOR, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: And the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 147 - Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
Page 162 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 14 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.