The Young Gentleman's Book: Containing a Series of Choice Readings in Popular Science and Natural History,together with Retrospective Essays,conversations,literary Reminiscences,etc1834 |
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... surface He form'd to agree With the wisdom that govern'd its plan ; He divided the earth , and apportion'd the sea , And He gave the dominion to man . The hunter he sped to the forest and wood , And the husbandman seized on the plain ...
... surface He form'd to agree With the wisdom that govern'd its plan ; He divided the earth , and apportion'd the sea , And He gave the dominion to man . The hunter he sped to the forest and wood , And the husbandman seized on the plain ...
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... surface is covered with one part land , and three parts water , which are inhabited and filled with innumerable living creatures , among which is man . From the Of this immense globe little is known to us . surface to the centre is four ...
... surface is covered with one part land , and three parts water , which are inhabited and filled with innumerable living creatures , among which is man . From the Of this immense globe little is known to us . surface to the centre is four ...
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... surface of the earth . PROOFS OF NUMEROUS REVOLUTIONS ON THE SURFACE of the Globe . - If we institute a more detailed comparison between the various strata and those remains of animals which they contain , we shall soon discover still ...
... surface of the earth . PROOFS OF NUMEROUS REVOLUTIONS ON THE SURFACE of the Globe . - If we institute a more detailed comparison between the various strata and those remains of animals which they contain , we shall soon discover still ...
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... surface - there are some of them in which land animals are buried under heaps of marine productions . Thus the various catastrophes of our planet have not only caused the different parts of our continents to rise by degrees from the ...
... surface - there are some of them in which land animals are buried under heaps of marine productions . Thus the various catastrophes of our planet have not only caused the different parts of our continents to rise by degrees from the ...
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... surface of our earth must have exerted a more powerful action upon terrestrial quadrupeds than upon marine animals . As these revolutions have consisted chiefly in changes of the bed of the sea , and as the waters must have destroyed ...
... surface of our earth must have exerted a more powerful action upon terrestrial quadrupeds than upon marine animals . As these revolutions have consisted chiefly in changes of the bed of the sea , and as the waters must have destroyed ...
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Страница 306 - THOU art, O God, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee : Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are Thine.
Страница 292 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter ; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of GOD, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season...
Страница 286 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me ; Because I delivered the poor that cried, And the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that, was ready to perish came upon me: And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Страница 203 - ... the calm. Not a pastoral song has a pleasanter tune than ye speak to my heart, little wildings of June : of old ruinous castles ye tell, where I thought it delightful your beauties to find, when the magic of Nature first breathed on my mind, and your blossoms were part of her spell.
Страница 441 - I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together — I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion.
Страница 308 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Страница 308 - Vainly we offer each ample oblation, Vainly with gifts would His favour secure ; Richer by far is the heart's adoration, Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor.
Страница 294 - O'er ocean's dark expanse To hail the Pleiades, or catch The full moon's earliest glance, That brings into the homesick mind All we have loved and left behind. Night is the time for care : Brooding on hours misspent, To see the spectre of Despair Come to our lonely tent ; Like Brutus, midst his slumbering host...
Страница 295 - And commune there alone with God. Night is the time for death ; When all around is peace, Calmly to yield the weary breath, From sin and suffering cease, Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends ; — such death be mine.
Страница 306 - When youthful spring around us breathes, Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh ; And every flower the summer wreathes Is born beneath that kindling eye. Where'er we turn, thy glories shine, And all things fair and bright are thine.