The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious ImprovementsPublished at the Middlesex Bookstore. J. M'Kown, printer, 1815 - 324 pages |
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... fire ; analogous to those of our system . " Ascribe ye greatness to our God ! That which renders it probable , that the fixed stars are bodies like our sun , is this : It is plain they shine by their own light . It is impossible they ...
... fire ; analogous to those of our system . " Ascribe ye greatness to our God ! That which renders it probable , that the fixed stars are bodies like our sun , is this : It is plain they shine by their own light . It is impossible they ...
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... fire , unequal in surface , com- posed of parts which are of a different nature , some fluid , some solid . The disk of it , a sea of fire , wherein waves of astonishing flame have a perpetual agitation . Sir Isaac Newton , as well as ...
... fire , unequal in surface , com- posed of parts which are of a different nature , some fluid , some solid . The disk of it , a sea of fire , wherein waves of astonishing flame have a perpetual agitation . Sir Isaac Newton , as well as ...
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... fire , the Sun : which , as it is the fountain of light and heat unto all the planets about it , by its kind influences affording them the great comforts of life ; so does it in bulk surpass them all . Its diameter is com- puted at ...
... fire , the Sun : which , as it is the fountain of light and heat unto all the planets about it , by its kind influences affording them the great comforts of life ; so does it in bulk surpass them all . Its diameter is com- puted at ...
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... fire , and even light itself , in some of those bodies that shine in the dark . If the Sun were a burning body , and the heat of it so much greater than that we feel of it , as to be in proportion to its distance ; how comes the ...
... fire , and even light itself , in some of those bodies that shine in the dark . If the Sun were a burning body , and the heat of it so much greater than that we feel of it , as to be in proportion to its distance ; how comes the ...
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... fire devouring them ! What prodigious mis- chief and ruin might such a ball of confusion bring upon our sinful globe , if the great God order its approach to us ! " How happy they , that are in the favour and friendship of that glorious ...
... fire devouring them ! What prodigious mis- chief and ruin might such a ball of confusion bring upon our sinful globe , if the great God order its approach to us ! " How happy they , that are in the favour and friendship of that glorious ...
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Page 91 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 153 - Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled : thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created : and thou renewest the face of the earth.
Page 46 - These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Page 105 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 2 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the...
Page 279 - Are not the species of objects seen with both eyes, united where the optic nerves meet, before they come into the brain, the fibres on the right side of both nerves, uniting there, and after union going thence into the brain in the nerve which is on the right side of the head, and the fibres on the left side of both nerves uniting in the same place, and after union going into the brain in the nerve which is on the left side of the head ; and these two nerves meeting in the brain...
Page 3 - God ; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection to the gospel of Christ...