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Page 2 - And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth : and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
Page 370 - For the corruptible body presseth down the soul, and the earthly tabernacle weigheth down the mind that museth upon many things.
Page 370 - And hardly do we guess aright at things that are upon earth, and with labour do we find the things that are before us: but the things that are in heaven who hath searched out?
Page 2 - And there was seen another sign in heaven ; and behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems.
Page 28 - The Government of the United States and the Governments of the several States stand ready to cooperate.
Page xxiii - The objects of the Association are, by periodical and migratory meetings, to promote intercourse between those who are cultivating science in different parts of...
Page 304 - Of northern America, east of the Rocky Mountains and north of the tropics, the same may be said. The climate and the scarcity of food in winter forbid us to suppose that a brood of orphan children could have survived, except possibly, by a fortunate chance, in some favored spot on the shore of the Mexican Gulf, where shell-fish, berries and edible roots are abundant and easy of access. But there is one region where Nature seems to offer herself as the willing nurse and bountiful step-mother of the...
Page 370 - And how could any thing have endured, if it had not been thy will? or been preserved, if not called by thee? But thou sparest all: for they are thine, O Lord, thou lover of souls.
Page 51 - Ausdehnungslehre, with which he had but recently become acquainted, expresses ''his profound admiration of that extraordinary work, and his conviction that its principles will exercise a vast influence upon the future of mathematical science." Another subject in which we find a tendency toward the forms and methods of multiple algebra, is the calculus of operations. Our ordinary analysis introduces operators; and the successive operations A and B may be equivalent to the operation C.
Page 317 - The explanation of this difference, which struck and perplexed this most discerning observer, seems now to be found inthe fact that the earlier implements were the production of beings whose minds were in the undeveloped state that must necessarily characterize men who had not yet attained the power of speech. No one will question the justice of Professor Whitney's remark on this point : " The speechless man is a being of undeveloped capacities, having within him the seeds of everything great and...

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