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... five years . While in this situation , a mutual attachment was formed between him and a niece of his patron's lady , which issued in marriage . The father of his wife , Sir George More , was so exasperated , that he not only refused to ...
... five years . While in this situation , a mutual attachment was formed between him and a niece of his patron's lady , which issued in marriage . The father of his wife , Sir George More , was so exasperated , that he not only refused to ...
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... five hundred and twenty - five feet . long , eighty - seven and a half feet wide , and fifty - two and a half feet high , and you may form a tolerably correct idea of the size of the ark . Each floor , according to the above standard ...
... five hundred and twenty - five feet . long , eighty - seven and a half feet wide , and fifty - two and a half feet high , and you may form a tolerably correct idea of the size of the ark . Each floor , according to the above standard ...
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... five thousand species , —of reptiles , insects , and animalcules , it is quite unnecessary to speak , since , if it can be proved that one floor or story of the ark affords room enough for all the animals , ( mammalia , ) it will not be ...
... five thousand species , —of reptiles , insects , and animalcules , it is quite unnecessary to speak , since , if it can be proved that one floor or story of the ark affords room enough for all the animals , ( mammalia , ) it will not be ...
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... five hundred ; so that a considerable portion of that century would have elapsed before he received God's command to build , which occurred after the marriage of his youngest son . Besides , in an interval of one hundred and twenty ...
... five hundred ; so that a considerable portion of that century would have elapsed before he received God's command to build , which occurred after the marriage of his youngest son . Besides , in an interval of one hundred and twenty ...
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... five years . While in this situation , a mutual attachment was formed between him and a niece of his patron's lady , which issued in marriage . The father of his wife , Sir George More , was so exasperated , that he not only refused to ...
... five years . While in this situation , a mutual attachment was formed between him and a niece of his patron's lady , which issued in marriage . The father of his wife , Sir George More , was so exasperated , that he not only refused to ...
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Page 96 - Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Page 146 - And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Page 384 - To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease ; For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 346 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 104 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 146 - And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea ; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Page 298 - Whichever way I turned, nothing appeared but danger and difficulty. I saw myself in the midst of a vast wilderness, in the depth of the rainy season; naked and alone; surrounded by savage animals, and men still more savage.
Page 298 - I mention this to show from what trifling circumstances the mind will sometimes derive consolation ; for though the whole plant was not larger than the top of one of my fingers, I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves, and capsula, without admiration. Can that Being (thought I) who planted, watered, and brought to perfection, in this obscure part of the world, a thing which appears of so small importance, look with unconcern upon the situation and sufferings of creatures...
Page 495 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 249 - Times go by turns, and chances change by course, From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.