A key to the knowledge of nature; or An exposition of the mechanical; chemical, and physical laws imposed on matter by the wisdom of the Almighty |
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Page 393 - of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken : for dust thou art, and unto dust thou
Page 391 - which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 393 - Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Page 392 - And God said. Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind : and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every tiling that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that
Page 393 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying Thou shall not eat of it:
Page 392 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every tiling that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and God saw that it was good.
Page 499 - a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others, stalking with majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did more than once actually reach us. Again they would
Page 521 - calling out that the Simoom was coming, he immediately turned for a moment to the quarter whence it came. It resembled a haze, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick; it was a kind of blush upon the air; and was about
Page 499 - reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these once disjointed dispersed and did not
Page 389 - it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under