Scripture Natural History for Youth, Volume 2H. Fisher, Son, & P. Jackson, 1828 - 668 pages |
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Page 326
... animal more powerfully against the pressure of the water , and also to repel the attacks of others of the finny tribes ; beneath these scales is an oily sub- stance which supplies to the muscular parts the requisite warmth and vigour ...
... animal more powerfully against the pressure of the water , and also to repel the attacks of others of the finny tribes ; beneath these scales is an oily sub- stance which supplies to the muscular parts the requisite warmth and vigour ...
Page 327
... animal in rising or sinking at pleasure , than in its progressive motion . The dorsal fin is situated along the ridge on the back , and serves both to preserve the balance , and to assist the motion , of the fish . In many fishes this ...
... animal in rising or sinking at pleasure , than in its progressive motion . The dorsal fin is situated along the ridge on the back , and serves both to preserve the balance , and to assist the motion , of the fish . In many fishes this ...
Page 328
... animals , they could see nothing at all . Accordingly we find their eyes are almost perfectly round . Fish have no eyelids ; but to defend the eye , it is covered with the same transparent skin that spreads over the rest of the head ...
... animals , they could see nothing at all . Accordingly we find their eyes are almost perfectly round . Fish have no eyelids ; but to defend the eye , it is covered with the same transparent skin that spreads over the rest of the head ...
Page 329
... animals can so well endure the want of food . The gold and silver fishes kept in vases , seem to want no nourishment at all ; whether it be that they live on animalculæ too small for our observation ; or that water alone affords a ...
... animals can so well endure the want of food . The gold and silver fishes kept in vases , seem to want no nourishment at all ; whether it be that they live on animalculæ too small for our observation ; or that water alone affords a ...
Page 340
... animal , its head alone making one - third of its bulk . In a whale of the moderate size , the fins are from five to eight feet in length , composed of bones and muscles , and sufficiently strong to give speed and activity to the ...
... animal , its head alone making one - third of its bulk . In a whale of the moderate size , the fins are from five to eight feet in length , composed of bones and muscles , and sufficiently strong to give speed and activity to the ...
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Page 301 - For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Page 572 - God; to comfort all that mourn ; to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Page 460 - Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: but God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him; and to every seed his own body.
Page 370 - For every kind of beasts and of birds and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind; but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 557 - Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not ; for a blessing is in it : so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Page 305 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 294 - O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, In the secret places of the stairs, Let me see thy countenance, Let me hear thy voice; For sweet is thy voice, And thy countenance is comely.
Page 540 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 539 - As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing, and gnashing of teeth.
Page 598 - The voice of the Lord is powerful ; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.