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... immensity of their distance . When we talk of hundreds of millions of miles , it is not to be listened to as incredible . For remem- ber that we are talking of those bodies which are scattered over the immensity of space , and that ...
... immensity of their distance . When we talk of hundreds of millions of miles , it is not to be listened to as incredible . For remem- ber that we are talking of those bodies which are scattered over the immensity of space , and that ...
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... immensity which surrounds it , should be the exclusive abode of life and of intelligence ? What reason to think that those mightier globes which roll in other parts of creation , and which we have discovered to be worlds in magnitude ...
... immensity which surrounds it , should be the exclusive abode of life and of intelligence ? What reason to think that those mightier globes which roll in other parts of creation , and which we have discovered to be worlds in magnitude ...
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... immensity .... in a word , because they are so many suns , each throned in the centre of his own dominions , and pouring a flood of light over his own portion of these un- limitable regions . At such an immense distance for observa ...
... immensity .... in a word , because they are so many suns , each throned in the centre of his own dominions , and pouring a flood of light over his own portion of these un- limitable regions . At such an immense distance for observa ...
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... immensity ? Our sun is only one of these luminaries , and we know that he has worlds in his train . Why should we strip the rest of this princely at- tendance ? Why may not each of them be the centre of his own system , and give light ...
... immensity ? Our sun is only one of these luminaries , and we know that he has worlds in his train . Why should we strip the rest of this princely at- tendance ? Why may not each of them be the centre of his own system , and give light ...
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... immensity with his wonders ; and travels in the greatness of his strength through the dominions of one vast and unlimited monarchy . The contemplation has no limits . If we ask the number of suns and of systems , the F unassisted eye of ...
... immensity with his wonders ; and travels in the greatness of his strength through the dominions of one vast and unlimited monarchy . The contemplation has no limits . If we ask the number of suns and of systems , the F unassisted eye of ...
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Page 273 - Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house ; and it fell not ; for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon...
Page 270 - ... feet. But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power ? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart ? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
Page 275 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Page 270 - Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it, 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Page 150 - And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts and the elders, and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honour and glory and blessing.
Page 14 - I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance.
Page 275 - But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.
Page 21 - Consider the lilies of the field; they toil not, neither do they spin: yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 112 - The other teaches me, that every grain of sand may harbour within it the tribes and the families of a busy population. The one told me of the insignificance of the world I tread upon. The other redeems it from all its insignificance ; for it tells me that in the leaves of every forest, and in the flowers of every garden, and in the waters of every rivulet, there are worlds teeming with life, and numberless as are the glories of the firmament.
Page 29 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.