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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... material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sen- tient life which appear upon it . The present cor- respondence carries on the investigation ; but is more particularly applied to observe and ...
... material laws and structure of our globe , and in the various classes of organic and sen- tient life which appear upon it . The present cor- respondence carries on the investigation ; but is more particularly applied to observe and ...
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... materials for forming that divine mind within us which many of the illus- trious ancients aspired to , but which cannot be attained until we cultivate the divine philosophy of things in conjunction with the natural . It is this which ...
... materials for forming that divine mind within us which many of the illus- trious ancients aspired to , but which cannot be attained until we cultivate the divine philosophy of things in conjunction with the natural . It is this which ...
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... material nature is moulded by the will , fulfils the designs , and subsists and acts on the plans , of the stu- pendous Creator . All intellectual nature - all moral beings , are in the same predicament . The one is not more guided or ...
... material nature is moulded by the will , fulfils the designs , and subsists and acts on the plans , of the stu- pendous Creator . All intellectual nature - all moral beings , are in the same predicament . The one is not more guided or ...
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... material and living portions of it are , which has not recipro- cal relations ? We cannot avoid silently criticising ourselves full as much as others act the censors to us ; and therefore we shall not feel that we are in the right ...
... material and living portions of it are , which has not recipro- cal relations ? We cannot avoid silently criticising ourselves full as much as others act the censors to us ; and therefore we shall not feel that we are in the right ...
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... materials for knowing what is so in- valuable to every one , is a fractious mystery of the human spirit , which it is difficult to understand . One reason perhaps for this conduct is , that while we cul- tivate our national philosophy ...
... materials for knowing what is so in- valuable to every one , is a fractious mystery of the human spirit , which it is difficult to understand . One reason perhaps for this conduct is , that while we cul- tivate our national philosophy ...
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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...