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... length of time , and they endeavour to obtain it from the sacred text . But Bacon and Newton were in no such dilemma . They believed the simple fact , and received the words of scrip- ture as Moses intended them . They believed that ...
... length of time , and they endeavour to obtain it from the sacred text . But Bacon and Newton were in no such dilemma . They believed the simple fact , and received the words of scrip- ture as Moses intended them . They believed that ...
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... length the petals fall away , and the stamens wither , and what was before all fragrance , or all beauty , is succeeded by a ripening fruit , which advances to perfection , either as an apple , or a plum , a cocoa nut , or a plantain ...
... length the petals fall away , and the stamens wither , and what was before all fragrance , or all beauty , is succeeded by a ripening fruit , which advances to perfection , either as an apple , or a plum , a cocoa nut , or a plantain ...
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... length exhausted . The peculiar situation of the tree enables it more readily to attract the mist ; for it springs from a rock , at the termination of a long and narrow valley . This interesting tree is an evergreen , of considerable ...
... length exhausted . The peculiar situation of the tree enables it more readily to attract the mist ; for it springs from a rock , at the termination of a long and narrow valley . This interesting tree is an evergreen , of considerable ...
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... length killed by his antagonist , who presently consumed him . It has been said , that the whole creation beautifully sets forth , in visible characters , those things which are invisible . The Christian reader may discover in this ...
... length killed by his antagonist , who presently consumed him . It has been said , that the whole creation beautifully sets forth , in visible characters , those things which are invisible . The Christian reader may discover in this ...
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... length it most gloriously broke forth , and sudden was the splendour that illumined this fair world . The cloudy covering was thrown aside , and all those fair and floating forms , those rolling masses , and light flying clouds , that ...
... length it most gloriously broke forth , and sudden was the splendour that illumined this fair world . The cloudy covering was thrown aside , and all those fair and floating forms , those rolling masses , and light flying clouds , that ...
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Page 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 61 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.