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Nature Considered as a Revelation: In Two Parts, Part I - Being an Argument ... Robert Slater Bayley No preview available - 2016 |
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Adam admired advantages Æsop Almighty analogies animal animal world appealing to Nature appear beautiful become Bible birds blessing cantharides character Christian classes Clemens Alexandrinus colour creatures death defects depend Divine earth equally evil eyes facts fire fish flower FULLER'S EARTH greatest heart heaven hence hieroglyphic human hyæna Illustr Illustr.-How Illustr.-The Illustr.-What inferior insect instruction Jehovah Jesus labour LAURUSTINUS less lessons light little things live mankind material Revelation material world means ment mental mind minister of religion moral Natural History Nature's nearly never objects in Nature perfect persons philosopher Phoenicia plant poor preserve produce proof qualities racter religion religious shew society specimens spirit station stones superior supposed symbolic talents taste taught teaches that little teaches that Nature teaches that things thought thousand tion tree truth universal useless vegetable verbal Revelation virtue WHITE POPPY
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Page 36 - I am an aged hemlock. The winds of an hundred winters have whistled through my branches ; I am dead at the top. The generation to which I belonged have run away and left me : why I live, the Great Good Spirit only knows. Pray to my Jesus that I may have patience to wait for my appointed time to die.*
Page 62 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power, not one faileth.
Page 94 - For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Page 40 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there : and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written ; that thou mayest teach them.
Page 45 - Indeed, the natural and moral constitution and government of the world are so connected, as to make up together but one scheme : and it is highly probable, that the first is formed and carried on merely in subserviency to the latter, as the vegetable world is for the animal, and organized bodies for minds.
Page 57 - Birds that lived on flies laid bluish eggs in the days of Joseph, as they will two thousand years hence, if the sun should not fall from his throne, or the earth not break her harness from the planetary car. The first bird that was caged oftener sung in adagio than in its natural spirit. Corals have ever grown edgeways to the ocean...
Page 11 - Israel as he strikes his heavenly lyre ! of sitting down under the tuition, successively, of all those holy men of old who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost...
Page 57 - The lark now carols the same song, and in the same key, as when Adam first turned his enraptured ear to catch the moral. The owl first hooted in B flat, and it still loves the key, and it screams through no other octaves. In the same key has ever ticked the death-watch ; while all the three noted chirps of the cricket have ever been in B, since Tubal Cain first heard them in his smithy, or the Israelites in their ash-ovens. Never has the...
Page 67 - Abram offered an heifer of three years old, a she goat of three years old, a ram of three years old, a turtle dove and a young pigeon.
Page 57 - ... as much produce a sound on the first turrets of Cain's city, as it is now said to do, on one of the Pyramids. The tulip, in its first bloom in Noah's garden, emitted heat four and a half degrees above the atmosphere, as it does at the present day. The stormy...