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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... Reasons for think- ing that the Difficulties attending it may be gradually sur- mounted • LETTER II . . Page 13 Nature distinguished into the Visible and the Invisible - Sacred History's Connexion with the latter - Man , as the superior ...
... Reasons for think- ing that the Difficulties attending it may be gradually sur- mounted • LETTER II . . Page 13 Nature distinguished into the Visible and the Invisible - Sacred History's Connexion with the latter - Man , as the superior ...
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... Reasons for its Imposi- tion LETTER XIII 192 Considerations on the Transgression of Adam and Eve , and on the Divine Plan with respect to that Event - Its Results- Thoughts on the Conduct of the Deity towards them and their Posterity ...
... Reasons for its Imposi- tion LETTER XIII 192 Considerations on the Transgression of Adam and Eve , and on the Divine Plan with respect to that Event - Its Results- Thoughts on the Conduct of the Deity towards them and their Posterity ...
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... Reasons for thinking that the Difficulties attend- ing it may be gradually surmounted . MY DEAR SON , I RESUME my correspondence with you on the SACRED HISTORY OF THE WORLD with more pleasure , from perceiv- ing that there is so much ...
... Reasons for thinking that the Difficulties attend- ing it may be gradually surmounted . MY DEAR SON , I RESUME my correspondence with you on the SACRED HISTORY OF THE WORLD with more pleasure , from perceiv- ing that there is so much ...
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... reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects exhibited will serve as guides and motive to others to make stronger efforts , and to give their labours a more judicious ...
... reason for abandoning the investigation altogether . The endeavour may be a personal failure ; but the defects exhibited will serve as guides and motive to others to make stronger efforts , and to give their labours a more judicious ...
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... reasons have made me think it important at the present juncture to do so , and this conviction has decided me to lay before you what appears to me to be true , where any certainty can be attained ; and what seems most probable , when ...
... reasons have made me think it important at the present juncture to do so , and this conviction has decided me to lay before you what appears to me to be true , where any certainty can be attained ; and what seems most probable , when ...
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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...