Reflections for Every Day in the Year on the Works of God, and of His Providence Throughout All Nature, Volume 1D. Shaw and Company, 1800 |
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... MILLIONS of rational beings , dispersed in the different countries of the world , are provided at this season with all the necessaries of life . The greater the number of them is , the greater variety of wants they have , according to ...
... MILLIONS of rational beings , dispersed in the different countries of the world , are provided at this season with all the necessaries of life . The greater the number of them is , the greater variety of wants they have , according to ...
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... million of times larger than the earth . It is one hundred millions of miles dis- tant from it , and notwithstanding this prodigious distance , it has a most sensible effect upon our sphere . Round the sun move nineteen globular bodies ...
... million of times larger than the earth . It is one hundred millions of miles dis- tant from it , and notwithstanding this prodigious distance , it has a most sensible effect upon our sphere . Round the sun move nineteen globular bodies ...
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... millions of miles , was thought the remotest planet , until the late discovery of the Georgium Sidus , whose distance is eighteen thousand millions of miles , and its magnitude eighty - nine times great- er than our earth . In the mean ...
... millions of miles , was thought the remotest planet , until the late discovery of the Georgium Sidus , whose distance is eighteen thousand millions of miles , and its magnitude eighty - nine times great- er than our earth . In the mean ...
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... millions of stars are dis- covered . But it would be a very senseless pride in man , to try to fix the limits of the universe by those of his telescope . If we reflect on the distance between the fixed stars and our earth , we shall ...
... millions of stars are dis- covered . But it would be a very senseless pride in man , to try to fix the limits of the universe by those of his telescope . If we reflect on the distance between the fixed stars and our earth , we shall ...
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... million of times larger than they are , we may discover , in the grains of sand , a new animal world : For it has been found , that their cavities contain insects . In cheese , there are little worms called mites , which , to the naked ...
... million of times larger than they are , we may discover , in the grains of sand , a new animal world : For it has been found , that their cavities contain insects . In cheese , there are little worms called mites , which , to the naked ...
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Page 276 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 47 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment : who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot : who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 49 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...
Page 48 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 46 - And the earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 49 - For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Lord; and there is none else.
Page 48 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: Which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, And the pillars thereof tremble.
Page 47 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 48 - The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.
Page 257 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...