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... arrangement . The friends of science in many lands will mourn over the incompleted project which , however ably it may hereafter be accomplished by another , it were vain to hope shall ever be so accomplished as it should have been by ...
... arrangement . The friends of science in many lands will mourn over the incompleted project which , however ably it may hereafter be accomplished by another , it were vain to hope shall ever be so accomplished as it should have been by ...
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Hugh Miller. off , though with difficulty , the meaning of those carefully arranged fragments . Yet , even with such aid , much must long , if not forever , remain dark and obscure . The work on which he was more imme- diately engaged at ...
Hugh Miller. off , though with difficulty , the meaning of those carefully arranged fragments . Yet , even with such aid , much must long , if not forever , remain dark and obscure . The work on which he was more imme- diately engaged at ...
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... arrangement . It begins by converting thousands , and more than thousands , into one ; and , reducing in the same manner the numbers thus formed , it arrives at last at the few distinctive characters of those great comprehensive tribes ...
... arrangement . It begins by converting thousands , and more than thousands , into one ; and , reducing in the same manner the numbers thus formed , it arrives at last at the few distinctive characters of those great comprehensive tribes ...
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... arranged in its history , accord- ing to the same laws of thought which impart regularity and order to the works of ... arrangement has been , or how often succeeding writers have had to undo what their predeces- sors had done , only to ...
... arranged in its history , accord- ing to the same laws of thought which impart regularity and order to the works of ... arrangement has been , or how often succeeding writers have had to undo what their predeces- sors had done , only to ...
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... arrangement . " But , for many centuries , this arranging faculty labored but to little pur- pose . As specimens of ... arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as ...
... arrangement . " But , for many centuries , this arranging faculty labored but to little pur- pose . As specimens of ... arranged by the poet on the simple but very inadequate principle of size and show . Herbs are placed first , as ...
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Strona 229 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Strona 37 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Strona 138 - So careful of the type?' but no. From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries, 'A thousand types are gone: I care for nothing, all shall go. Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death: The spirit does but mean the breath: I know no more.
Strona 233 - 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...
Strona 262 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
Strona 225 - Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? And one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore ; ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Strona 138 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Strona 198 - said God ; and forthwith Light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the Deep, and from her native East To journey through the aery gloom began, Sphered in a radiant cloud — for yet the Sun Was not; she in a cloudy tabernacle Sojourned the while.
Strona 210 - Sing heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...