The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 1-2Houlston and Stonemen, 1856 - Great Britain |
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... geology , botany , or entomology . These may be pursued in summer , and a stock of health laid in for winter . The reader of the " Glaucus " of Mr. Kingsley will at once perceive the physical advantages derivable from the study of ...
... geology , botany , or entomology . These may be pursued in summer , and a stock of health laid in for winter . The reader of the " Glaucus " of Mr. Kingsley will at once perceive the physical advantages derivable from the study of ...
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... proceedings of the evening . - B . Whitby Institute Geological Class . A class for the study of this delight- ful branch of science has been formed in connection with the Whitby Insti- 46 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS .
... proceedings of the evening . - B . Whitby Institute Geological Class . A class for the study of this delight- ful branch of science has been formed in connection with the Whitby Insti- 46 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS .
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... geology . The Rev. Joseph Hughes , M.A. , minister of the epis- copal chapel , was invited to be the president , and he was empowered to select the most suitable book for study . -J . R. P. Edinburgh Young Men's Associa- tion . — The ...
... geology . The Rev. Joseph Hughes , M.A. , minister of the epis- copal chapel , was invited to be the president , and he was empowered to select the most suitable book for study . -J . R. P. Edinburgh Young Men's Associa- tion . — The ...
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... geology it learns the form and distribution of the solid portions of its surface ; from hydrography it receives like information regarding its fluid constituents ; and from meteor- ology it gains so much information as is attainable ...
... geology it learns the form and distribution of the solid portions of its surface ; from hydrography it receives like information regarding its fluid constituents ; and from meteor- ology it gains so much information as is attainable ...
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... geology , of ethnology and astronomy , of botany and zoology - a fit resort for the studious and contemplative . Open it on the Sunday , and thousands of artizans will be led to devote their leisure hours to profitable pursuits , in ...
... geology , of ethnology and astronomy , of botany and zoology - a fit resort for the studious and contemplative . Open it on the Sunday , and thousands of artizans will be led to devote their leisure hours to profitable pursuits , in ...
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Page 96 - And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.
Page 63 - I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm...
Page 175 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 100 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 95 - And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 96 - Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee...
Page 96 - And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat, all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
Page 100 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, " 'tis all barren." And so it is : and so is all the world, to him who will not cultivate the fruit it offers.
Page 96 - Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever : for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Page 51 - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished...