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... look into them for scientific disquisitions , much less for the explana- tion of many of those deep mysteries — those ulti- mate causes , which seem beyond the grasp of the human intellect , and were evidently intended to be for ever ...
... look into them for scientific disquisitions , much less for the explana- tion of many of those deep mysteries — those ulti- mate causes , which seem beyond the grasp of the human intellect , and were evidently intended to be for ever ...
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... look at the intelligent eye - we can- not contemplate the motions and actions of even the simplest animal - without being conscious that there is something here more than in the rocks and stones , and the inert and lifeless matter ...
... look at the intelligent eye - we can- not contemplate the motions and actions of even the simplest animal - without being conscious that there is something here more than in the rocks and stones , and the inert and lifeless matter ...
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... of idolatry was the Sabian . Men , when they cry to the Deity , look to the sky . In its fathomless depths of azure , in its purity , and in the brilliant phenomena it displays , they behold a fit abode ANCIENT RELIGIONS . 55.
... of idolatry was the Sabian . Men , when they cry to the Deity , look to the sky . In its fathomless depths of azure , in its purity , and in the brilliant phenomena it displays , they behold a fit abode ANCIENT RELIGIONS . 55.
Page 56
... look undazzled , seemed the eye of God watching over creation . When he withdrew from the heavens , and made night to refresh his creatures , he left the moon and the sentinel stars to keep watch over the slumbers of earth ; and these ...
... look undazzled , seemed the eye of God watching over creation . When he withdrew from the heavens , and made night to refresh his creatures , he left the moon and the sentinel stars to keep watch over the slumbers of earth ; and these ...
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... look to the east , and at the extreme of the vista of history , we perceive primeval society founded upon the social principle , linked together by principles of reciprocity and common necessity , and we also perceive its disrup- tion ...
... look to the east , and at the extreme of the vista of history , we perceive primeval society founded upon the social principle , linked together by principles of reciprocity and common necessity , and we also perceive its disrup- tion ...
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?