Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically Considered, in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 2, Issue 72Harper, 1844 - Creation |
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... Animal Nature LETTER XXI . 283 Appointment and Adaptation of the Surface for the Habitation of Man - Distribution of the rest into the Oceans and Seas of the Globe - Views as to the Divine Purposes in these Ar- . rangements . LETTER ...
... Animal Nature LETTER XXI . 283 Appointment and Adaptation of the Surface for the Habitation of Man - Distribution of the rest into the Oceans and Seas of the Globe - Views as to the Divine Purposes in these Ar- . rangements . LETTER ...
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... animals say , " A great and very ancient part of divination is by augury from birds ; for they are so swift , and so intelligent , and so pliable in their moveability to every imagination or thought , that they seem like instruments fit ...
... animals say , " A great and very ancient part of divination is by augury from birds ; for they are so swift , and so intelligent , and so pliable in their moveability to every imagination or thought , that they seem like instruments fit ...
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... animal kingdom , that we and our fellow brutes should have that knowledge of external things which arises from the impres- sions that constitute sight ; and he has therefore contrived and placed within us a most delicate and complicated ...
... animal kingdom , that we and our fellow brutes should have that knowledge of external things which arises from the impres- sions that constitute sight ; and he has therefore contrived and placed within us a most delicate and complicated ...
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... animals that we know of ; and the more minutely we do so , the more we perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and ...
... animals that we know of ; and the more minutely we do so , the more we perceive his established and intended superiority . He is the monarch of the earth , although he is not its sole possessor ; and from the natural relation and ...
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... animals , I cannot but feel that there are most probably distinct purposes and plans as to them in the great economy of creation , which we have not yet attained to perceive . They seem to belong to a system appro- priated to themselves ...
... animals , I cannot but feel that there are most probably distinct purposes and plans as to them in the great economy of creation , which we have not yet attained to perceive . They seem to belong to a system appro- priated to themselves ...
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Adam and Eve agencies ancient animals appear appointed Arabs arise beautiful become birds body called cause Cecrops character civilized continued creation Creator cultivated Deity deluge descendants Deucalion diluvian divine earth Edom effect Egypt Egyptian Esau excite existence external fact father feelings female globe gneiss Grecian Greece habits happy Hesiod human nature human race ideas impressions improvement individual infer inhabitants intellectual intelligent Ishmael islands Jewish Josephus kind knowledge land laws living Macedonian dynasty males mankind means ment mentions miles mind Mizraim moral mountains nations never ocean operation opinions ourselves peculiar perceive Phenicians Plato pleasure Plutarch population portion present principle produce quadrupeds reason regions remarks result rocks sacred history says sensations sensibilities Socrates soil soul species spirit square miles Strabo subsistence surface Syria things thou thought tion tribes truth universal vegetation
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Page 175 - The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest — Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast...
Page 218 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Page 171 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before, The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare And grass in the green field.
Page 108 - We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
Page 174 - There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, To me did seem Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore; — Turn wheresoe'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Page 124 - Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
Page 400 - And he will be a wild man ; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him ; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Page 395 - And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.
Page 170 - I never hear the loud, solitary whistle of the curlew in a summer noon, or the wild, mixing cadence of a troop of gray plovers in an autumnal morning, without feeling an elevation of soul like the enthusiasm of devotion or poetry.
Page 173 - Oh ! pleasant, pleasant were the days, The time, when, in our childish plays, My sister Emmeline and I Together chased the butterfly ! A very hunter did I rush Upon the prey : — with leaps and springs I followed on from...