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... matter . No further movement was made till the end of June , when a list of scholars , selected by Dr Rainolds and others for the work of translating , was presented to James for his acceptance . To the individuals selected , the king ...
... matter . No further movement was made till the end of June , when a list of scholars , selected by Dr Rainolds and others for the work of translating , was presented to James for his acceptance . To the individuals selected , the king ...
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... matter alone . The physiologist must assume a vital force , or power , or principle ; the moralist a thinking principle or mind . We cannot look at the intelligent eye - we can- not contemplate the motions and actions of even the ...
... matter alone . The physiologist must assume a vital force , or power , or principle ; the moralist a thinking principle or mind . We cannot look at the intelligent eye - we can- not contemplate the motions and actions of even the ...
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... matter of which the great bulk of it is com- posed undergoes a chemical change , and is speedily converted into a half - liquid sugar ; in this state it affords nourishment to the young and minute germ in the centre , until this germ ...
... matter of which the great bulk of it is com- posed undergoes a chemical change , and is speedily converted into a half - liquid sugar ; in this state it affords nourishment to the young and minute germ in the centre , until this germ ...
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... matter in its various combinations , as the creature of God ; secondly , we should reverence God as the Creator of all things ; thirdly , we should ap- proach the consideration of such a theme with the sincerest humility . When the ...
... matter in its various combinations , as the creature of God ; secondly , we should reverence God as the Creator of all things ; thirdly , we should ap- proach the consideration of such a theme with the sincerest humility . When the ...
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... matter of the globe was created on the first of them . Nothing in connection with the creation of man , or quadrupeds , or birds , or fishes , or trees , or tender plants , implies this . These acts influence the argu- ment neither one ...
... matter of the globe was created on the first of them . Nothing in connection with the creation of man , or quadrupeds , or birds , or fishes , or trees , or tender plants , implies this . These acts influence the argu- ment neither one ...
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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?