The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation. Treatise I-IX.: On the power, wisdom and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation of animals, by William Kirby. 2d edW. Pickering, 1837 - Natural theology |
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... plants , inhabitants of northern countries , as could not bear such a change of temperature , and at the same time could not escape from it ; and admitting this - it would enable us to answer in the affirmative to the query above stated ...
... plants , inhabitants of northern countries , as could not bear such a change of temperature , and at the same time could not escape from it ; and admitting this - it would enable us to answer in the affirmative to the query above stated ...
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... plants , as well as animals , that are found in a fossil state in our northern lati- tudes are of a tropical type or character . After their creation , and perhaps the expulsion of the first pair from Paradise , we may suppose that the ...
... plants , as well as animals , that are found in a fossil state in our northern lati- tudes are of a tropical type or character . After their creation , and perhaps the expulsion of the first pair from Paradise , we may suppose that the ...
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... plants and animals may be poured out as from an ark ; and thus a colony of several hundred new spe- cies may at once be naturalized . " Thus he accounts for the peopling of the volcanic and coral islands in the Pacific . It must be ...
... plants and animals may be poured out as from an ark ; and thus a colony of several hundred new spe- cies may at once be naturalized . " Thus he accounts for the peopling of the volcanic and coral islands in the Pacific . It must be ...
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... plants , and mine- rals would be the same , therefore the naturalist would stay at home ; the astronomer indeed , and geographer , and the student of his own species , might be tempted sometimes to roam , but the ocean would be truly ...
... plants , and mine- rals would be the same , therefore the naturalist would stay at home ; the astronomer indeed , and geographer , and the student of his own species , might be tempted sometimes to roam , but the ocean would be truly ...
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... Plant - lice , which may be denomi nated the Locusts of Britain , and which are stated sometimes almost to darken the air , by the ladybirds and aphidivorous flies . All these migrations are produced by a different cause from 1 Lemmus ...
... Plant - lice , which may be denomi nated the Locusts of Britain , and which are stated sometimes almost to darken the air , by the ladybirds and aphidivorous flies . All these migrations are produced by a different cause from 1 Lemmus ...
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action alluded amongst analogous animal kingdom animalcules Annelidans appears aquatic Arachnidans Aristotle armed belong birds bivalves body Branchiopods called Cephalopods Cetaceans cherubim circumstances Class claws common Condylopes consider consisting creation Creator Crustaceans Cuvier Decapods Deity devour divided earth eggs employed enable exhibit eyes fins fishes fixed fluid foot former functions furnished genus gills globe habits head heavens herbivorous Hexapods Ibid infinite inhabit insects instinct Introd jointed kind Lamarck Latreille latter legs light Linné locomotion mandibles maxillæ means membrane Molluscans motion mouth move multivalve Myriapods nature nutriment object observed ocean operculum Order organs oviparous pair plants PLATE polypes predaceous prehension prey principal probably produced quadrupeds regard remarkable Reptiles resembling respect Saurians Scripture seems shell singular Solipeds sometimes species spiders spines structure substance suckers surface tail tentacles terrestrial things tion trees tribe tube usually vegetable whole wings
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Page 413 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Page 440 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 47 - Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 490 - And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark : and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged...
Page 6 - gan war, and fowl with fowl, And fish with fish: to graze the herb all leaving, Devour'd each other; nor stood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or, with countenance grim Glared on him passing.
Page 6 - For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the living. For he created all things, that they might have their being: and the generations of the world were healthful; and there is no poison of destruction in them, nor the kingdom of death upon the earth: (for righteousness is immortal: ) but ungodly men with their works and words called it to them...
Page xlviii - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand...
Page 486 - All the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 46 - Let us hope that the day is approaching when 'the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
Page 76 - I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.