The Sacred History of the World: As Displayed in the Creation and Subsequent Events to the Deluge : Attempted to be Philosophically Considered in a Series of Letters to a Son, Volume 3J. & J. Harper, 1838 - Creation |
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... Human Race different from those of the rest of Nature LETTER V. 28 The Invisible Agencies as certain as the Material Ones , both in Life and Nature . - The Divine Agencies are of this Character . -Change of the Divine Plan as to Human ...
... Human Race different from those of the rest of Nature LETTER V. 28 The Invisible Agencies as certain as the Material Ones , both in Life and Nature . - The Divine Agencies are of this Character . -Change of the Divine Plan as to Human ...
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... Human Nature , and Instances of it in various Parts of the World LETTER XX . 164 The Natural Division of Population into Moieties of Youth and Age in England . - The settled Preponderance and Power of the Elder . - Effect of this ...
... Human Nature , and Instances of it in various Parts of the World LETTER XX . 164 The Natural Division of Population into Moieties of Youth and Age in England . - The settled Preponderance and Power of the Elder . - Effect of this ...
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... Human Life . - Its existence in Antiquity , and in all Periods of the World , down to our own Times . - The most remarka- ble Instances of it in the last two Centuries - 211 LETTER XXIV . Longevity made a Natural Property of Human Nature ...
... Human Life . - Its existence in Antiquity , and in all Periods of the World , down to our own Times . - The most remarka- ble Instances of it in the last two Centuries - 211 LETTER XXIV . Longevity made a Natural Property of Human Nature ...
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... human race in their earthly life . Considerations were added on his peculiar construction of our twofold nature , and on the results which , in this stage of its being , he has effectuated in it . The first state of man ; the change of ...
... human race in their earthly life . Considerations were added on his peculiar construction of our twofold nature , and on the results which , in this stage of its being , he has effectuated in it . The first state of man ; the change of ...
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... nature of the diluvian commotion and desolations , which ended the first ... human kind has been insepara- bly connected ; and by whose future destinies ... nature and of our human frame and living world , as were ascertainable in them ...
... nature of the diluvian commotion and desolations , which ended the first ... human kind has been insepara- bly connected ; and by whose future destinies ... nature and of our human frame and living world , as were ascertainable in them ...
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Page 409 - At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it; if that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.
Page 439 - And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
Page 434 - Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work Upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, And the glory of his high looks.
Page 405 - That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked, and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee : Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right...
Page 439 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set and the books were opened.
Page 404 - By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee...
Page 434 - By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent...
Page 255 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 41 - The cause to which I allude is the constant tendency in all animated life to increase beyond the nourishment prepared for it.
Page 424 - And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour : and this was my portion of all my labour.