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... miles . The unassisted eye can rarely discern this beautiful little planet which revolves so near the sun as to be seldom visible . Few discoveries , therefore , have been made on its surface ; even with the assistance of the highest ...
... miles . The unassisted eye can rarely discern this beautiful little planet which revolves so near the sun as to be seldom visible . Few discoveries , therefore , have been made on its surface ; even with the assistance of the highest ...
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... miles from the centre of light and heat ; and the other is nearly lost in the effulgence of the solar blaze . A ... miles ; and when it approaches nearest to our earth it is twenty- seven millions of miles distant . Were the whole of its ...
... miles from the centre of light and heat ; and the other is nearly lost in the effulgence of the solar blaze . A ... miles ; and when it approaches nearest to our earth it is twenty- seven millions of miles distant . Were the whole of its ...
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... miles , and that it is encompassed with an atmosphere the densest part of which is sixteen hundred feet high . Thus much is all that the telescope reveals to us respecting the beautiful Venus . Next comes our earth , revolving round the ...
... miles , and that it is encompassed with an atmosphere the densest part of which is sixteen hundred feet high . Thus much is all that the telescope reveals to us respecting the beautiful Venus . Next comes our earth , revolving round the ...
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... miles above the level of the adjacent districts , and surround , like mighty ramparts , an extensive plain , in the midst of which appears an in- sulated and conical hill . Imagine one of these level plains , girded round with mountains ...
... miles above the level of the adjacent districts , and surround , like mighty ramparts , an extensive plain , in the midst of which appears an in- sulated and conical hill . Imagine one of these level plains , girded round with mountains ...
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... miles , with its beautiful hills and valleys , are solitary and unpeopled ? That the sun shines upon them by day , and the earth by night , for no assignable purpose ? that an atmosphere encircles them in vain ? and that their ...
... miles , with its beautiful hills and valleys , are solitary and unpeopled ? That the sun shines upon them by day , and the earth by night , for no assignable purpose ? that an atmosphere encircles them in vain ? and that their ...
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Strona 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Strona 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Strona 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Strona 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Strona 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Strona 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Strona 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Strona 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Strona 61 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Strona 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.