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... animals , destined to endure our winter , are enabled to withstand the severity of the season . The coat of the ox ... animal , its heat is thus , as it were , pre- served and husbanded , for the mainten- ance of life . But we miss the ...
... animals , destined to endure our winter , are enabled to withstand the severity of the season . The coat of the ox ... animal , its heat is thus , as it were , pre- served and husbanded , for the mainten- ance of life . But we miss the ...
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... animal necessities , is guided and impelled by an irresistible influence . It reasons not , it dreams not of the why and wherefore ; it refers not effects to causes ; it is not made wiser by experience ; it acts as all its species do ...
... animal necessities , is guided and impelled by an irresistible influence . It reasons not , it dreams not of the why and wherefore ; it refers not effects to causes ; it is not made wiser by experience ; it acts as all its species do ...
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... animal and vegetable life , during the rigours of an ungenial sky , winter returns , and again prepares the earth , by a night of rest , for the labours of the coming year . These wonders of divine Providence need only to be mentioned ...
... animal and vegetable life , during the rigours of an ungenial sky , winter returns , and again prepares the earth , by a night of rest , for the labours of the coming year . These wonders of divine Providence need only to be mentioned ...
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... animal world , many species sleep out the winter , to awake again in a new season . Nature itself expires and re- vives ; even while she lies prostrate and rigid , an almighty hand preserves the germs of future life , that she may once ...
... animal world , many species sleep out the winter , to awake again in a new season . Nature itself expires and re- vives ; even while she lies prostrate and rigid , an almighty hand preserves the germs of future life , that she may once ...
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... animals than the work of a sculptor . I do not believe that there exists in any European museum any monument so likely to change the opi- nion of those who see nothing in Egyp- tian art but a servile and tasteless imita- tion of forms ...
... animals than the work of a sculptor . I do not believe that there exists in any European museum any monument so likely to change the opi- nion of those who see nothing in Egyp- tian art but a servile and tasteless imita- tion of forms ...
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Page 63 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 144 - For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Page 326 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 266 - Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Page 71 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power ; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.
Page 268 - For why? the Lord our God is good, His mercy is for ever sure ; His truth at all times firmly stood, And shall from age to age endure.
Page 393 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
Page 35 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 366 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 35 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.